Week 3 – June 23-27 This is going to be a heck of a week. Depending on how much pressure is put on the positions I own, I am uncertain as to the direction things can go, and just how much it will affect the strategies. In Week 3, I may decide to live update …
June 20th, 2025 Realized Gains: $1,807 Overall Position PnL: +3.1%June20 Close: $201Sentiment: Bullish Week 2 has been a decent week for AAPL trades. There were some dips and a late Friday recovery back to the price that I first was attracted to engage with Apple. Now with a buy and hold strategy, that would mean we’re …
I began trading NVDA in 2024 on July 3 after recently having closed the “QQQ Hedge” that had been running for just over a year prior. My initial position with NVDA was a bullish stance with a view to earning money using “theta Θ” while managing “delta ▲.” This was to be the first large …
I started trading Apple options on June 10th, 2025. The reasoning for me was the feeling that we have been watching Apple decline on bad news, and negative sentiment for a while now. They’ve had problems getting their AI division going among other things. While I don’t think I will ever buy an iPhone, I …
AMZN – Amazon I started trading Amazon in May of 2025. It began as an earnings play to get started, then I decided to trade it with the slinky. I feel it is suitable for this strategy because despite it’s tendency to have fairly large swings, it’s also a staple of the S&P, NASDAQ, DOW, …
PUT OPTION CONTRACT With a PUT option contract, the buyer is paying a premium to own a contract that aims to profit if the stock price should fall. It doesn’t necessarily have to fall below the strike price that has been agreed upon, because as long as the stock price falls during the time frame …
Being “long on a stock” means that you own shares of that stock, with the expectation that its price will increase in value over time. Ownership: When you go long, you are actually purchasing and holding the shares of a company. You become a shareholder. Bullish Outlook: This position reflects a “bullish” outlook, meaning you …
Θ THETA Theta (Θ), often called “time decay,” is an options greek that tells you how much an option’s price is expected to decrease each day due to the passage of time. Options lose value every day, even if the underlying stock doesn’t move. Theta Θ quantifies this daily loss as a number. It’s like …
▲ DELTA In simple terms, ▲ Delta tells you how much an option’s price is expected to change for every $1 move in the stock price. Call Options (positive Delta): For call options, Delta ranges from 0 to 1. A Delta of 0.50 means that if the underlying stock goes up by $1, the call …
June 15, 2025 – Amazon Update AMZN finished the week like everything else in the market this week. On a dip. With worries about war in the middle east, Friday just couldn’t shake off the jitters, and thinks ended down. I won’t say sharply down, but it wasn’t pretty in the post market on Thursday, …