Less MPW

I sold all of my shares of MPW from three accounts near the open netting +6.4% for the largest position and +2.3% for the smallest. Not too bad for less than a month I guess. I still have call options for MPW.

What's Not To Like

I think I like this market.

With BA going ex-dividend tomorrow, I decided to sell the calls, +62.3%. I sold my May FUL calls as well, +23.5%.

I sold a short butterfly for DVA which reported this evening. I bought shares and calls in XXIA. I bought shares of AMLP and penny stock (lottery ticket) EXM. I've been rolling the short calls of my calendar spreads up.

This morning I traded too early. In almost every case I could have sold for more and bought for less later in the day. Fortunately the frustration is usually short lived.

SNTS and ROSE had a very good day.

+HCN & VRTU

I started a stock position in HCN and added more shares to my VRTU position.

CRTX took the profit and then some. Sitting tight.

One Ugly Day

That was rough. Except for REGN and PRAA my watchlists are mostly red.

I didn't expect everything to go south so fast. I covered my short AAPL calls thinking AAPL would continue moving up. It held up well by comparison, but still cost me money.

I sold May bull put (credit) spreads for EWW and TBT at the open. Oops.

I bought shares of MPW and O.

Manic

On Monday HMA spiked up on the open. Fortunately I just happened to have a sell-to-open limit order for May $11 calls queued up. That gives me a cheap May $9/$11bull call spread.

Yesterday ESRX spiked up on earnings. I had an order in to sell my $5 spread early for $4.90. I meant to nudge up the price since it was way ITM but it sold right away, +31.1%.

I sold my May DCIX calls, +58.5%. I sold what value was left in my OTM May CRZO calls (a.k.a. lottery ticket), -70%.

I sold what were OTM calls for AAPL (Friday) and URI (May) to create calendar spreads. Those short calls are both ITM money now so I may have to roll them up.

I covered the short call of my May HEP spread and I'm hoping for a little rebound before I sell the long call.

Messy Oil

The puts for the GLD credit spread expired worthless, +25.2%.

I'm still struggling with some of my earlier, more expensive oil positions. My CVI shares were stopped out, -7.4%, and some of my nearly worthless $10 May KOG calls sold, -80.6%.

I bought shares in ROSE.

Except for the oil stocks and options, everything else is looking pretty good, particularly BA, DCIX, AAPL, and MPW.

Trigger Happy

AAPL opened up and looked like it was moving up, so I covered tomorrow's $405 short calls while I could still show a profit on them. They were ITM and I had decided to keep my long June calls anyway. Then AAPL started moving lower of course. Frustrating. +19.9%.

The DVA shares hit the 4% trailing stop, +2.6%. They report Monday.

I bought more NNN shares and some more June KOG calls. There's been some significant buying of KOG pre-market lately. I think someone has decided to take a position.