ARR

Bought it! On the dip after ARR announced the secondary. I have another low ball limit order in place too. I missed ARR on the last sell-off after my stop loss orders took me out of it and I underbid the stock on the rebound.

I tried to sell GLD credit spreads but I think they got away from me.

Shaken, Not Stirred

I got shaken out of SLRC and NSM earlier and now I'm back in (shares purchased).

I sold some Feb 22 $450/$440 AAPL bull put (credit) spreads this morning when the share price dropped. That should return 18.3 and 21.8% (two accounts) on risked money (less fees) over the next seven trading days.

GLD Quickie, EWT, ICLR Gone

ICLR tripped the trailing stop near its low today, -5.90%. I was hoping it was about to turn around when I bought it. Guess not.

I sold the other batch of Feb. EWT calls, +1.24%. There was no value in converting to a spread. Too bad the run to $13.65 didn't come a bit sooner ... I could have made a respectable profit rather than just break even (though that's a great outcome sometimes!).

I sold some Feb GLD credit spreads for Friday. So far so good.

EWT and FLT Sold

I'm a bit out of sorts here while I reinstall everything following a computer drive failure. It has been very distracting to say the least.

Some of my Feb. EWT calls sold today as they got back to even, but I think the better play may have been to sell the Feb $13 calls for a $12/$13 bull call (debit) spread. I'll look at doing the spread conversion on the OH account. +2.65%.

The FLT shares sold as it was oscillating at the open and tripped the trailing stop, +17.32%.

FXI

Today I sold March FXI bull put (credit) spreads.

There are no very overbought or oversold alerts on my ETF watchlist. Anything that is close to an alert condition is in an extended trend (usually an up-trend) so I'd be giving them a wide berth anyway.

FLT had a nice day after reporting.

GEOS and More

I closed out the credit spreads for VXX and XRT, -36.4% and -45.2% respectively.

I sold my XRT puts, -51.6%.

I bought shares of GEOS, HMA, and more of PSEC early on. I had to pay up when GEOS gapped up, but it went on to have a great day.

This month is not looking good. Bearish plays on GME and NFLX backfired, bear call spreads on SPY and XRT lost money as did the bull put spreads for VXX. Betting against the market's continued run was a bad bet. The bearish positions were smaller, but they added up. That just leaves the UNG credit spread to close at expiration, and any equity positions that might be stopped out. The equities continue to do well (save REGN), and next month's options are looking good. Fingers crossed!

Less AAPL, More Everything Else

That nice 20 minute rally by AAPL tripped my limit orders and let me close out some dicey positions. The calls that were underwater since the morning after I bought them closed +0.19%. The credit spread only had to hold $440 until Friday, but the way AAPL has been trading that was not a given. Less stress and a quick +14.1% profit.

I went shopping first thing and added URI calls, and shares of AI, ECL, ICLR, MPW, PSEC, TAL, and URI.