It has been very busy in the Rescue My IRA account this
month – I’m behind on my posts here so I will begin catching up today. The posts coming up will include executing a couple of unwind transactions and making
a couple of position adjustments as I have attempted to trim my sails to
navigate the turbulent sideways market during the ongoing “shutdown” crisis in
Washington.
Nevertheless, this account
notched a new high book value of over $150K for a few days, and has settled in
this morning at above $149K.
Today’s post will be about adding shares to the F
position, and I will work on getting the other two or three posts up before
options expiration on Friday. At the
moment, I only have one October contract left on SPY – that one could end up
being called or not, all depending on Congress’s actions in the next couple of
days.
I opened the F position last month with 200 shares – I had
a trade in this stock a few months ago and did well with it, and since I had a
little money left on the sidelines, I put it back to work at a share basis of
$17.49, selling a November 18 contract.
I added 300 shares yesterday, dropping my share basis to $17.23, and
rolled everything out to a December 18 contract. The trade puts me in position for a triple
play, since the ex-dividend date is coming up later this month, and I will have
collected call premiums and a forecast share gain by the time the trade ends.
Here’s the analysis:
Total option
premiums: $204.70
Total dividend payments
(including the forecast October ex-dividend):
$50.00
Total stock gain at $18: $366.89
Total, absolute gain
on the position: $621.59
Total, absolute return
percentage ($621.59/$8,616.00): 7.21%
Annualized total
return percentage (held approx 90 days): 29.26%
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