Gap up! Good thing I didn’t sell those covered calls. lol.
Stop order to close entire SPY position at $127.50.
Current price $128. Normally I don’t use stop order but this huge gap has me perplexed.
edit – 1:15pm: Stop moved to 128.
edit – 2:25pm: Stop moved to $128.50
I may be selling some covered calls soon.
Or I may just close the whole thing out. I’m nowhere near my profit target but I’m not so happy with how I spaced out the buys on this trade and I don’t like that SPY has to drop to 105 again before I’m going to buy anymore. That’s like 20 points of play, although I don’t mind sitting through drawdown (obviously, if you’ve been paying attention to this thread).
ITM covered calls may be a good way to force the position to close. Of course if I do that price will go straight up
10/24:
SPY $11,115.00
hedge -$2,482.00
Net for this trade:
$8,633.00 (unrealized)
$1,223.60 (realized)
$2,931.69 (realized)
$1,129.72 (dividend)
$3,561.93 (estimated dividend)
$5,221.55 (realized)
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$22,701.49
10/21:
SPY $2,451.00
hedge -$2,119.00
Net for this trade:
$332.00 (unrealized)
$1,223.60 (realized)
$2,931.69 (realized)
$1,129.72 (dividend)
$3,561.93 (estimated dividend)
$5,221.55 (realized)
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$14,400.49
10/19;
SPY -$13,737.00
hedge -$1,472.20
Net for this trade:
-$15,209.20 (unrealized)
$1,223.60 (realized)
$2,931.69 (realized)
$1,129.72 (dividend)
$3,561.93 (estimated dividend)
$5,221.55 (realized)
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-$1,140.71
SPY -$5,529.00
hedge -$1,762.60
Net for this trade
-$7,291.60 (unrealized)
$1,223.60 (realized)
$2,931.69 (realized)
$1,129.72 (dividend)
$3,561.93 (estimated dividend)
$5,221.55 (realized)
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$6,776.89
In the positive.
10/10:
SPY -$22,572.00
hedge -$1,049.80
Net for this trade:
-$23,621.80 (unrealized)
$1,223.60 (realized)
$2,931.69 (realized)
$1,129.72 (dividend)
$3,561.93 (estimated dividend)
$5,221.55 (realized)
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-$9,553.31
Bought 660 shares of SH at 45.04.
The hedge is back open.
10/6:
SPY -$40,185.00
hedge -$284.20
Net for this trade:
-$40,469.20 (unrealized)
$1,223.60 (realized)
$2,931.69 (realized)
$1,129.72 (dividend)
$3,561.93 (estimated dividend)
$5,221.55 (realized)
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-$26,400.71
Sold entire position (1173 shares) of SH @ $45.90.
Profit: $5,221.55.
As of now the only thing that is open is my SPY position.
Watch price tank now that I’ve closed out my short position. lol.
There was no real reason I sold it now other than I was happy with locking in $5,000 of profit right now. I have no idea if price is going to go up or down in the future. If it goes up, awesome. If it goes down then whoops I should’ve held onto the SH longer. I may buy more if SPY goes up.
10/5:
SPY -$51,984.00
hedge closed
Net for this trade:
-$51,984.00 (unrealized)
$1,223.60 (realized)
$2,931.69 (realized)
$1,129.72 (dividend)
$3,561.93 (estimated dividend)
$5,221.55 (realized)
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-$37,915.51
Put in a stop order to sell my entire SH position (1173 shares) at $44.90 which will be $4,055.55 before commission.
SH is currently at 46.91 but I want to lock in at least $4,000.
The next buy will occur if SPY hits $105 at which point I will begin buying SSO since it’s cheaper per share and double weighted which means I can get the same dollar movement for less of an investment than it would take me with SPY.
10/3:
SPY -$77,577.00
hedge $7,339.95
Net for this trade:
-$70,237.05 (unrealized)
+$1,223.60 (realized)
+$2,931.69 (realized)
+$1,129.72 (dividend)
+$3,561.93 (estimated dividend)
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-$61,390.11