Sentences with phrase «xlb naked puts»

My GS naked put is down roughly $ 2,000 and still falling.

I had a loss of $ 827.39 (~ 0.82 %) on paper for March (compared to the Dow's 3.47 % decline and the S&P 500's 2.64 % decline) and had $ 1,214.09 in realized gains from my seven closing trades on my ADI, GS, IWM, WMT, and XLB naked puts in addition to my short TLT call spread.

I typically use the «option requirement» value for naked puts calculated by my broker.

If you sell a cash - secured naked put, though, you protect yourself.

@JoeTaxpayer - I can just tell you from my experience in selling naked puts / calls and with my broker.

You then sell a naked put for the stock for this price.

You think it will stay flat or go up so you sell (short) 1 naked put option with a strike of $ 30.

But if we have a multi-million dollar account that is 85 % in stocks / ETFs and 15 % in cash we might sell some naked puts where if the puts were all put to us we wouldn't have enough cash (so, technically, taking advantage of unused margin in the account).

A «naked put» is an uncovered put option that you have sold.

However, there are a few differences that may make naked puts more or less attractive than covered calls depending on your circumstances.

The portfolio consists primarily of short options positions (naked puts) and long stocks and covered options positions.

Same profit as in the naked put case.

Some investors have a hybrid strategy of selling naked puts until they are assigned (so now they own the stock) and then turn around and sell a covered call at the same strike.

Same as in the naked put case.

We specialize in stocks, bonds and options and we engage in a lot of premium selling in managing our strategies, whether it is covered call writing or naked put selling.

Did you know that selling naked puts has the same P / L profile as selling covered calls?

An alarming number of financial professionals, including stockbrokers, financial planners and journalists are in position to educate the public about the many advantages to be gained from adopting naked put writing (and other option strategies), but fail to do so.

Covered calls, zero - cost collars, spreads and naked puts can all provide you with some downside protection if you use them the right way.

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While AFL was trading at $ 52.10 this morning I sold one AFL January 50 naked put at $ 1.65 and received $ 162.99 after commissions.

Until then, I'm planning to use lower volatility ETFs for my at the money naked puts and farther out of the money naked puts or at the money covered calls on the more volatile ETFs and stocks.

Even with this trade I still have more than a $ 20,000 cushion before I go on margin if every naked put was assigned and no covered calls were.

I put a limit order in this morning to add another naked put at Jan 55.

While XLB was trading at $ 26.25 I sold four June 25 naked puts (XLBRY) for $ 0.55 each and received $ 207.00 after commissions.

That's how much of a loss I would have taken on my UCO December 12 naked puts if I had bought them back today.

While DVY was trading at $ 87.33, I sold one DVY January $ 87 naked put for $ 1.65 and received $ 164.75 after paying $ 0.25 in commission.

If the $ 1.35 limit order doesn't hit, that'll mean that DIS has regained its footing and my single naked put should finish out - of - the - money.

If it drops much more I'll have to consider adding a new naked put, maybe at the $ 55 strike.

Naked Puts — Selling a put without being short the stock is called a naked put.

It looked like small - cap stocks were turning around and I figured I should wait before exiting my four naked puts since I had so much time value left to erode...

I'm longer term bullish on the large oil ETF and figured I could take another option assignment on it again if my naked puts don't work for me which is why I didn't hedge the position.

I started the change with MDY since my December MDY naked puts expired on Friday and I needed to add some more mid-cap exposure back into my account anyway.

While MDY was trading at $ 164.14 I sold one MDY January 2012 $ 175 naked put for $ 22.10 and received $ 2209.19 after commissions.

This afternoon, while VNQ was trading at $ 57.10 I sold one December 56 naked put for $ 1.15 and received $ 114.29 after commissions.

If all of my naked puts were assigned and my covered calls expired worthless I'd be 103.96 % invested in my IB account, a big decrease from the 121.53 % at the prior month's ending percentage.

While CSX was trading at $ 60.17 I sold one CSX January $ 57.50 naked put for $ 1.70 and received $ 169.31 after commissions.

If CSX drops another couple of dollars and I see it starting to find its footing I plan to sell another naked put.

My four QQQ August $ 133 naked puts were the only August option contracts I had remaining by today's expiration.

I'm short an October naked put on TWM (double ultra short Russell 2000 ETF) and might close it as soon as tomorrow.

A few minutes later, after seeing VNQ bounce around some, I sold one VNQ November $ 50 naked put for $ 1.35 and received $ 134.27 after commissions.

I've been sitting on my VNQ position after being assigned 100 shares from a naked put that expired in September at $ 61.00.

I still have an IWM January naked put that's more than 8 % out of the money and a SPY March naked put that's 7 % out of the money.

I'm reminded again why I prefer naked puts over covered calls.

If all of my July naked puts are assigned I'd...

Just after 3:00 pm yesterday my order to sell VIP naked puts hit.

While the biggest part of the post-election rally might be in the books, I think I could do well by selling some out of the money naked puts for January and February.

I just can't find the stocks I want to sell naked puts on.

While VIP was trading at $ 29.32 I sold two VIP August naked puts (VIQTF) and received $ 438.50 after commissions.

I sold naked puts on NVDA last year bought them back for a loss rather than take the option assignment.

I've been watching Materials Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE Arca: XLB) for a while — ever since my last naked puts finished out - of - the - money.