Sold 350 shs of Marvell Technology @ $17.09, covered 5 Oct $17 Call, finance by shorting 2×100 Jan2011 $14 Put, 2×100 Jan2011 $15 Put, and 2×100 Jan2011 $20 Call

September 8, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities, US Options · Comment 

P&L for Cash : $833

Cost of Covering $17 Sept Call : 0.97 x 500 = $485

Amount received for finance : 0.73 x 200  + 0.90 x 200 + 0.64 x 200 = $454

 

Did a Forward and Up Roll for MRVL: Covered 5×100 Sept 2010 $16 Call & Shorted 5×100 Oct 2010 $17 Call at debit $0.10

August 26, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities, US Options · Comment 

Marvell Technology could go higher on takeover speculations.

We would like to capture more gains by covering our Sept $16 call and forward up rolled it into a Oct $17 call.

net cost 10 cents

Shorted 100 shs of AMD at $6.00. Full delta hedge on our Sept/Oct $7 Calendar Put Spread

August 26, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities, US Options · Comment 

Buy-Write 500 shs / 5×100 covered call on Marvell Technology

August 17, 2010 · Posted in US Equities, US Options · Comment 

We bought 500 shs of MRVL at 14.70 and sold 5×100 Sept10 $16 Call at $0.35.

max profit $825

Sold 230 shs of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) @ 25.52

August 9, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities, US Options · Comment 

 

sold all of our shs as we have sold our put earlier

 

P&L +$39.10

 

Covered 100 shs of Microsoft (MSFT) @ $25.37, then bought 230 shs of MSFT at $25.35 , delta hedging our straddle

August 6, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities, US Options · Comment 

we covered our short in MSFT

P&L + $86

we then made another adjustment to our delta by buying 230 shares of MSFT at $25.35, which is half of the gamma value.

Shorted 100 shs of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) at $26.24

August 3, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities, US Options · Comment 

just some delta hedging on our straddle

Covered 100 shs of Research In Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) @ $52.99

July 28, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities · Comment 

cant find any news … dunno why it cracked down 4.5% today.

$53 could be a support (last Wed's day low)

covered it at $52.99

 

P&L $+200

Covered 100 shs of Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) @ $54.80

July 23, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities · Comment 

forced to cover half of our position as we received an alert that we will be going over our overnight margin limit if we take the whole position overnight.

P&L + $20

Shorted 200 shs of Research in Motion (NASDAQ:RIMM) @ $55

July 23, 2010 · Posted in Trades, US Equities · Comment 

it has tested but failed to break above $55 quite a few times ever since it great gapped down back in June.

seeing it would be no different this time and we decided to short 200 shs @ $55

 

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