PANW Closed, SDRL Gone

My April PANW call spread sold today, +28.8%. Position opened 4/1.

The short leg of the LCI spread will likely expire worthless (< $70) so I'll have another month to play with it.

I own no shares of  either equity at the moment.

My SDRL shares sold when my 5% TSL order triggered, +16.1%. Position opened 4/9.

Back in 5

Not really. Anyway ...

Recent Options Action

I spread my March SWKS calls with both legs expiring ITM for nice +616.6% gain.

For April expiration, I spread my PANW calls for a $130/$140 bull call spread.

I did a calendar spread for my LCI May $50s with Apr $70s which are now just ITM.

I also bought May ODFL calls which are biding their time apparently.

Stocks

My last watchlist binge was on BIIB  LCRX ODFL NXPI SBS and SDRL. SDRL has had a good run - everything else, not so much.

Older holdings faring well: BLKB SNCR. I'm almost above water again with UBNT (finally).

ETFs

I bought June call options on ETFs DWJ, EEM, EFA, EPI, EWW, and IYR yesterday.

My other June calls are for AAPL, FUL, KOG, and URI.

I plan to let them rebound a bit then either sell them or sell calls against them (for a bull call spread).

Rough Week

The Fed's meeting minutes took the wind out of my REIT and real estate stocks. Let's hope they rebound and get traction next week.

Wednesday's China news didn't help CAT so I had to give back the put premiums and then some on my $85/87.50 bull put spread, netting -41.3% on risked money. That basically negates 2 to 3 good trades. That's the problem with credit spreads - your losses are typically a multiple of your modest gains. I expected the stock to move up and the probability was 60% or better for a winning three day trade, but it didn't pan out.

I covered the AAPL short calls that went ITM, so now I'm back to my June calls.

Seeing Red

That's an ugly wachlist, unless you like red.

My 2 and 4% trailing stops on HCN kicked in selling both halves, +3.1%.

My 6% "just in case something bad happens" trailing stop on SNTS triggered after a nice run up before drifting back for a 2 cent loss for the day. I closed on the high side, +20.9%.

I added some more SMS shares. Too bad I moved my limit order up - I should have left it right where it was for a nice buy near the bottom.

Yestday I sold a put spread for CAT, and bought call options on SSNC.

+GNRC, -EXM

I sold half of my EXM shares, +33.8%.

I bought call options on GNRC.

The called DVA and HMA shares were sold, Friday's post has been updated. I missed a chance to cover the AAPL $435 calls the first thing this morning.

May 13 Expiry

Well that was a nice finish.

Bull put (credit) spreads for EWW and TBT expired worthless, netting +16.3% each.

I locked in a tiny profit on VRTU when it was behaving badly, then as it improved the bid-ask spread was so large and illiquid that I couldn't roll up the short call for a profit. It was a $17.50/$22.50 bull call spread with VRTU closing today at $26.02. Net +0.6%. Pffft.

HMA and DVA dropped below their short calls over the last two days. HMA netted +46.3%. DVA netted +60.2% return on risked funds.

The last of the KOG May $10 lottery tickets expired worthless. -100% on that small (and cheap) lot. I have Jun $5s and half as many $7 call options that are doing well with KOG's recent run (up 4.6% today). The losses on the $7s have pared considerably and been nicely offset by the gains on the $5s.

The short calls for the URI diagonal spread expired just OTM.

I rolled the AAPL short calls from $45 down to $35 and out to next Friday. That may be a bit snug (to say the least) so hopefully APPL will drop at some point and I'll can close them out for a profit.

Yesterday I bought back into MPW (shares and call options) and bought calls for FUL. I bought AI shares today.

I panicked Wednesday morning when ARR was selling off (again) and bought ITM put options to cover my shares. Of course ARR reversed to the upside almost immediately. I closed out the puts today, -16.9%. Sigh ...

EXM had a good day yesterday, and didn't give back too much today.