Since we're already out of half of our PATH calls, and PATH just reported blowout earnings last night, and is up 23%, I ran the calcs to get us a price target for the second half of the calls: $8.
Longer dated calls to give this time to work on the upside; put legs use the first expiration after earnings. This structure generally gives us a better break even and lower cost than extending the put legs out.
David, I'm curious what advice you would give for organizing and keeping on top of options positions. As a working professional, my mind gets pretty much wiped clean each week and in a month or so I can't remember what my original intent was when I find complex positions like this in my account.
I've always been frustrated that retail brokerage software (at least all that I'm aware of) don't provide the ability to easily group and annotate positions like today's example. Spreadsheets can be helpful but besides manual entry they are not great for temporal data IMO -- I find myself wishing I had a Gantt chart sometimes.
The key is entering those GTC exit orders. I had two profitable exits on Monday, in HOOD and TER trades. I wasn't watching them; I just went to my Fidelity account and saw two trades had been executed.
With our GTC exit orders, most of our winners will cash out on their own. Then all that's left for us to do is check our accounts before options expiration, see what's left, and take whatever we can get for it.
Out of one of my PATH calls already at $5.
Out of the PATH put spread today at $0.20.
Since we're already out of half of our PATH calls, and PATH just reported blowout earnings last night, and is up 23%, I ran the calcs to get us a price target for the second half of the calls: $8.
Why such a time difference between the Call and the Puts?
Longer dated calls to give this time to work on the upside; put legs use the first expiration after earnings. This structure generally gives us a better break even and lower cost than extending the put legs out.
David, I'm curious what advice you would give for organizing and keeping on top of options positions. As a working professional, my mind gets pretty much wiped clean each week and in a month or so I can't remember what my original intent was when I find complex positions like this in my account.
I've always been frustrated that retail brokerage software (at least all that I'm aware of) don't provide the ability to easily group and annotate positions like today's example. Spreadsheets can be helpful but besides manual entry they are not great for temporal data IMO -- I find myself wishing I had a Gantt chart sometimes.
The key is entering those GTC exit orders. I had two profitable exits on Monday, in HOOD and TER trades. I wasn't watching them; I just went to my Fidelity account and saw two trades had been executed.
With our GTC exit orders, most of our winners will cash out on their own. Then all that's left for us to do is check our accounts before options expiration, see what's left, and take whatever we can get for it.