May 2020

Here at OptionsBrew.com, we believe a trading plan is already a 50% key to success. Without further ado, here is our trade plan for the upcoming month of June 2020. We are looking to buy 9 shares of PFE for our Partnership fund. At the end of the month we should have 24 PFE stocks - once we will have 100 shares of PFE we will start selling covered calls on…

Here at OptionsBrew.com we believe transparency is the key to success and that's why we have decided to share our monthly options income reports covering details behind the scenes. That said welcome to the first (#1) options income report. Last May we did in total 29 trades / from which 15 were covered calls and 14 naked puts. In total 18 trades were…

On May 29, 2020, we sold 1 naked put on SPCE stock with a strike price at $14 and get for that $0.19 premium (before commissions) We call these trades naked because we are trading on margin, in case of an assignment we will borrow from broker funds to finance the purchase.  Here is our trade setup: SLD 1 SPCE JUN 05 '20 14 Put Option  0.19 USD what can…

On May 29, 2020, we rolled forward and up (diagonal calendar)  1 covered call on GPS stock  - a position originally established a couple of weeks ago at the strike price of $9 (assignment). Covered Call on GPS - Potential income return 3.77% in 11 days This is a good example of how a losing trade can turn into a profitable. We agreed to get assigned on GPS…

On May 29, 2020, we sold 1 naked put on SDC stock with a strike price at $6.5 and get for that $0.536 premium (after commissions) We call these trades naked because we are trading on margin, in case of an assignment we will borrow from broker funds to finance the purchase.  We have been selling puts on SDC stock since the end of April 2020, as our…

On May 29, 2020 we roll forwarded RDSA JUN 05 '20 15 Covered Call for 0.08 EUR credit. This trade was originally established as a put ratio back spread on May 11: Put Ratio Back Spread on RDSA - 0.7% potential income in 4 days We got assigned at EUR 14.80 and immediately sold a weekly covered call: Covered Call on RDSA - Potential income return 2% in 7…

This is not a trade recommendation, this is a trade idea. I'm not a financial advisor, anything written here should be taken with a grain of salt. I take no responsibility If you will decide to invest A couple of weeks ago I was talking to my brother and we were talking about European football clubs and stocks, my bro suggested maybe it's wise to buy some…

On May 28, 2020, we sold 1 naked put on XIN stock with a strike price at $2.5 and get for that $0.126 premium (after commissions) We call these trades naked because we are trading on margin, in case of an assignment we will borrow from broker funds to finance the purchase.  XIN is a dividend stock we hold in our portfolio since October 2018, we rarely…

This is not a trade recommendation, this is a trade idea. I'm not a financial advisor, anything written here should be taken with a grain of salt. I take no responsibility If you will decide to invest Here at OptionsBrew.com, we like the idea of selling options on "good" dividend stocks, preferably from the Dow Jones list, but we make exceptions, and one…

On May 27, 2020, we sold 1 naked put on SPCE stock with a strike price at $15 and get for that $0.16 premium (before commissions) We call these trades naked because we are trading on margin, in case of an assignment we will borrow from broker funds to finance the purchase.  Here is our trade setup: SLD 1 SPCE MAY 29 '20 7.15 Put Option  0.16 USD what can…

On May 27, 2020 we decided to close our Poor Man's covered call with Aegon, Dutch stock listed on Amsterdam Stock exchange with a loss. With our strike price EUR 2.3 challenged we decided to close, rather adjust and roll-up / forward - the money is just not worth of it - its too much work for too little gain. Here at OptionsBrew.com we like to keep it…

On May 26, 2020, our market order of selling all our HTZ shares got filled at price $0.49 Long story short, we bought 100 shares of HTZ just a couple of days ago, paying $3.17 per share and simultaneously sold 1 covered call contract for what we got a very hefty premium of $0.7 per share. See: Covered Call on HTZ - Potential income return 32.49% in 11 days…

There are 63 dividend aristocrat stocks in 2020, according to the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats The Dividend Aristocrats are S&P 500 index constituents that have increased their dividend payouts for 25 consecutive years or more. In one of my previous articles I was mentioning an idea selling covered calls (or puts) on dividend aristocrat stock.…

This is not a trade recommendation, this is a trade idea. I'm not a financial advisor, anything written here should be taken with a grain of salt. I take no responsibility If you will decide to invest Here at OptionsBrew.com, we like the idea of selling options on "good" dividend stocks, preferably from the Dow Jones list, but we make exceptions, and one…

This is not a trade recommendation, this is a trade idea. I'm not a financial advisor, anything written here should be taken with a grain of salt. I take no responsibility If you will decide to invest Here at OptionsBrew.com, we like the idea of selling options on a "good" dividend stocks, preferably from the Dow Jones list. But there is this one stock…