Friday, July 12, 2013

Options Trade - BBL

I decided to close out one of my BBL puts that I just sold last week!  That post is here.  I had a nice quick gain and decided to take advantage.  This also freed up more cash in the event that the 2 PAAS puts gets assigned this month which still looks very likely.

The trades:

07/12/13 BTC 1 BBL Dec 21 '13 $50 Put @ 3.2
07/05/13 Sold 1 BBL Dec 21 '13 $50 Put @ 4.5

I earned a profit of $130 in only a week!  I did pay commissions of $21.50 so my net profit was $108.50 in only 7 days!  Taking my margin requirements into account, this trade only tied up about $500.  That's over a 20% profit in 7 days.  The calculator I was using gave an error for annualized rate of return since it's over 10,000%!

I currently have 14 open options positions and a total options profit of $3098 for 2013 and have met my $3000 goal for the year.  My options income still continues to outpace my dividend income but I believe that my dividend income will catch up to and pass my options income in the third quarter.

My options page has been updated accordingly.

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