Posts Tagged ‘AAPL’
Trading Quiz: What Would You Do?
Got an email today from an options trader in trouble. Here’s the situation and what I told her: Would Allen considering giving me a advice fix for my AAPL and GOOG calls? I have January 19, 2013 AAPL $665 bought for $42.41 now $9.90 GOOG $775 bought for $41.30 now $4.50 I sure would appreciate…
Read MoreIron Condor Option: Apple (AAPL)
APPL Option Trading Here is a trade I just put on in the personal account. It’s an iron condor on Apple. It has a 77.43% Probability of profit with 22 days left to expiration. Sell to Open June 355 Calls, But to Open June 360 Calls Sell to Open June 310 Puts, Buy to Open…
Read MoreSteve Jobs Looks Fine To Me
Rumors of Steve Jobs’ cancer returning might be true. But I doubt he is going anywhere anytime soon. Proof: He showed up to the White House to attend the President’s dinner yesterday. And in the picture, he looks fine to me, although you cannot see his face. Here is a blog post with the picture…
Read MoreOption Credit Spread on AAPL
Put option trading Option Credit Spread: Just did a Put Credit Spread on Apple in my personal account. Sell the Feb 320 Puts, Buy the Feb 310 puts for a credit of .95 cents Total risk per spread, also the margin, $905. Maximum return per spread: $95 for a potential ROI of 10.49% before options…
Read MoreOptions Trading: Google (GOOG) Going to $600
A little over a year ago I went to one of those free options trading seminars provided by companies that want you to sign up for their coaching or options training training. The concept they were teaching was day trading and so it did not interest me very much, but a couple things the speaker…
Read MoreWhen Do I Buy Back A Credit Spread?
Why you should buy back your spreads with a real life example
Read MoreMay Option Trade Results
Option Trade Results: For the month of May, my results were a nice gain of 11.71%! This is following a nice double digit gain last month. We had four trades this month: SPX, the S&P 500 index RUT, the Russell 200 Index AAPL, Apple Computer WMT, Wal-Mart. I recorded double digit gains on three of…
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