Author: Alex Fotopoulos

Follow me on this trade at your own peril. I’ve done well selling TLT options a few times and I’ve done very poorly other times. Due to my losses caused…

The only option I had in my account that will expire today was one QQQ August $187 covered call. Knowing that it will expire worthless this afternoon (giving me a…

Continuing with the plans I mentioned in a recent post, I sold an out of the money covered call on my 100 IWM shares this afternoon. While IWM was trading…

I only have options on two stocks that are expiring today, AAPL and ADI. The two AAPL January $200 covered calls far out of the money that will expire worthless…

If only every month could be as easy and as profitable as January was. While I haven’t come close to making up for my losses in 2018, I made a…

I’ve been working on hedging one of my client’s accounts this week with various option combinations. After the market closed yesterday, I realized the IWM trade I made for him…

March was an up and down month for my account, but I still had less volatility than the major indexes and finished up for the month while most indexes lost…

The chart below shows the daily prices for the past year on SPY, an S&P 500 Index ETF, after the ETF closed the week at $206.44 on April 2, 2015.…

BABA was one of the trades I try not to make, but talk myself into every few years. It sounded hot and promising, but was overvalued. It might have a…

I have four different options expiring today on three separate underlying positions for another profitable options expiration. The first two options were easy and will close out my exposure to…

I had some time to look over my holdings yesterday and really think about what I wanted to do next. I only have two February puts expiring (FB and BA)…