Compare Results – AMZN Week 4
June 7th, 2025
After 4 weeks here are the results so far. (From May 15th to June 6th is technically only 21 days.)
This race really doesn’t have a finish line, and there will possibly be times when the strategies can overtake each other, and one will look better than the other for a time. The idea is to always look forward, and never sit on your hands.
Most purists and those who trade stocks and options will tell you that Buy and Hold always beats trading.
Most.
Let’s acknowledge a few things because it’s not just as simple as looking at only these figures, and to do so would be over simplifying the results.
First of all, the person who buys and holds has only one risk. The amount of capital that has been put into the stock from the day they purchased it.
On the other hand, running any kind of option strategies where you have to sell short options brings in other risks. Such as:
- maybe I might have to buy some more shares because of an assigned short PUT option
- maybe I have to sell some shares because I got squeezed out of shares because of a short CALL option.
- A severe and prolonged move to upside or downside could force me to liquidate positions
Conclusion
While the 13.9% return statistic looks good, keep in mind it’s being produced by taking on risks that are outside just buying the stock.
If ever you wanted to try to mirror trades with someone, make sure you’re also willing to put in some time to get the same results. I make sure I balance the risks with probability calculations that are sometimes very calculated, and sometimes instinct moves.
Amazon Posts
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, and many other important indexes.
AMZN Week 5
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, and Friday morning in the
Called and Assigned
June 10th, 2025 – AMZN I am pretty sure I will have two options assigned on my this week. One is a short CALL option at $210, which means I will be “Called” on an option assignment whereby 100 shares are sold at the contract price. The other assignment is a short PUT contract I setup at $220. I am