{"id":12747741,"date":"2024-11-12T08:39:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T13:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/?p=12747741"},"modified":"2024-11-15T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T20:41:56","slug":"philstockworld-november-portfolio-review-members-only-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2024\/11\/12\/philstockworld-november-portfolio-review-members-only-3\/","title":{"rendered":"PhilStockWorld November Portfolio Review (Members Only)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S&amp;P 6,000!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12747742\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"707\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024.png 1565w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024-1024x757.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024-768x568.png 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024-1536x1136.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024-150x111.png 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024-485x360.png 485w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024-696x515.png 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/SPX-Nov-12-2024-1068x790.png 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>We just closed above that mark for the first time yesterday and, unfortunately, we&#8217;re about to put a ring on it &#8211; one of those rings around RSI 70 that has, VERY RELIABLY, market the beginning of a sell-off 3 times in the past two years. Will this time be different? No &#8211; it will not&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The top of our expected range for the year was 5,600 but we didn&#8217;t expect Trump to be re-elected and bring back his tax cuts and, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2024\/11\/11\/monday-market-melt-up-the-rally-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as noted by Boaty yesterday<\/a>, that can certainly get us another 15% next year &#8211; but not in a straight line&#8230; Overbought is overbought so we&#8217;re more of a mind-set to lock in our gains at the moment than look for new ones.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HOWEVER &#8211; it is November and that means it&#8217;s time to pick our 2025 Trade of the Year and we try to get it done around Thanksgiving (28th) &#8211; so that&#8217;s our project for the next two weeks. What is considered a sure thing in Donald Trump&#8217;s America?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we can find a clue looking at the big winners of the last 7 days &#8211; since election day:\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12747743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Heat-Nov-11-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1282\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Heat-Nov-11-2024.jpg 1282w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Heat-Nov-11-2024-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Heat-Nov-11-2024-1024x572.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Heat-Nov-11-2024-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Heat-Nov-11-2024-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Heat-Nov-11-2024-696x389.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Heat-Nov-11-2024-1068x596.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1282px) 100vw, 1282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s just silly, isn&#8217;t it? Poor Healthcare &#8211; you would think they&#8217;d be happy. No more vaccines maybe? But no diagnostics too? Is Trump not even paying for lab tests anymore. I guess Kennedy&#8217;s policy could be &#8220;<em>Just cut out the things that don&#8217;t work<\/em>&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=theodoric+of+york+medieval+barber&amp;oq=theodoric+&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBwgCEAAYgAQyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQLhiABDIHCAIQABiABDIHCAMQLhiABDIHCAQQLhiABDIHCAUQLhiABDIHCAYQLhiABDIHCAcQLhiABDIHCAgQABiABNIBCDU3MjdqMGo5qAIAsAIB&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&amp;vld=cid:e85917e4,vid:edIi6hYpUoQ,st:0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America will be as great as the Middle Ages again<\/a>! I certainly don&#8217;t get why sugary beverages are down with tobacco and candy &#8211; these are all things Trump likes.\u00a0 Packaged foods also down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Banksters are huge winners, UNH is up 20% as we go back to infinite billing and finite coverage models. And, of course, it&#8217;s good to be TSLA &#8211; up 38% ($400Bn) in a week! $8.3Bn of the $8.5Bn in profits for TSLA this year came from Biden&#8217;s Regulatory Credits and 1\/3 of the TSLAs were manufactured in China but Musk must know something hitching his wagon to Trump, right?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111224\/TSLAd075777802i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>$350 is 100x next year&#8217;s earnings so we&#8217;ll see if the markets are in any way rational this week as that is RIDICULOUS and not at all based in reality. The company made 0.62\/$346 share in the last earnings report &#8211; where is the logic?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway, let&#8217;s not worry about logic &#8211; let&#8217;s just see if we like our current positions:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>$700\/Month Portfolio:<\/strong> We just reviewed this last Friday and all is well here as our adjustments were few and, now that SQQQ has corrected (the reverse split showed a false loss) we can now see our proper balance, which is $36,584 and that is up 93.6% at the start of month 27 &#8211; very, very good! We have $4,831 left to spend and that will be $5,531 when we add $700 in December AND we have a hedge &#8211; so I&#8217;m happy with this portfolio:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12747744\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1311\" height=\"1488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024.jpg 1311w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024-264x300.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024-902x1024.jpg 902w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024-768x872.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024-150x170.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024-300x341.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024-696x790.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/700-Month-Nov-11-2024-1068x1212.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1311px) 100vw, 1311px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Money Talk Portfolio Review:<\/strong> We only adjust the MTP when I&#8217;m live on the show and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2024\/08\/20\/moneytalk-portfolio-review-august-2024-out-with-the-old-in-with-the-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">our last time was back in August<\/a> &#8211; when we closed out the previous portfolio (up 400%) and started a new one &#8211; which is now up 14.7% (5% per month &#8211; untouched!) so, of course, I&#8217;m happy with these picks!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Next time I&#8217;m on should be after Thanksgiving, where I&#8217;ll announce our new Trade of the Year (VALE is currently disappointing us). Most likely we will add our new Trade of the Year and a few runners-up next month:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12747778\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1310\" height=\"860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024.jpg 1310w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024-1024x672.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024-768x504.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024-696x457.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024-1068x701.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/MTP-2-Nov-11-2024-741x486.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1310px) 100vw, 1310px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t take too much credit for this, the S&amp;P is up 8% since August\u00a0 (5,600) but it&#8217;s a marathon, not a sprint!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short-Term Portfolio (STP) Review:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2024\/11\/07\/thursday-fed-meeting-up-down-or-flat-which-way-will-rates-go\/#comment-8145135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We just did an STP Review on Thursday<\/a> and, like the $700\/Month Portfolio, the reverse-split (1:5) of SQQQ made a mess so now it&#8217;s fixed and we&#8217;ll see how we&#8217;re looking but I&#8217;m not going to worry about the other positions for now &#8211; as we just discussed them all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12747884\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1318\" height=\"1653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024.jpg 1318w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024-816x1024.jpg 816w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024-768x963.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024-1225x1536.jpg 1225w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024-150x188.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024-300x376.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024-696x873.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/STP-Nov-11-2024-1068x1339.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1318px) 100vw, 1318px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Short Puts &#8211; All good.<\/li>\n<li>BBY &#8211; On track.<\/li>\n<li>F &#8211; Improving<\/li>\n<li>IMAX &#8211; Way over target.<\/li>\n<li>SKX &#8211; On track. Earnings were good but now people are worried about supply chain disruptions and tariffs. I&#8217;d rather wait to see what policy reality is.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111224\/SKXd135189923i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>SQQQ &#8211; Doesn&#8217;t seem like a lot of protection now but we were in the money by $1.25 and now we&#8217;re in the money by $6 so actually fine for us. SQQQ is at $32.06 and it&#8217;s a 3x ETF so a 20% drop in the Nasdaq should give us a 60% pop so 1.6 x $32.06 is $51.29 but, unfortunately, the highest-strike calls are only $42 (should be higher) so we end up partially covered but they will eventually be rollable &#8211; so nothing to worry about.<\/li>\n<li>That means we have 220 longs covered by 116 short calls and the 36 short March $42s and a 10% drop will hit $42 and put us $17 in the money ($374,000) and, the next 10% drop takes us to $51, where the uncovered 104 calls make another $9 ($93,600) so it&#8217;s the same $467,600 of coverage that we had in the October review and the current net of the spread is $37,292 so it&#8217;s about $430,000 of downside potential in this one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111224\/SQQQd140412562i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>TZA &#8211; Less complicated as it&#8217;s the same (ish) $794,975 net protection we had before BUT, for $1,900 &#8211; I don&#8217;t see a reason to keep the short Jan $22 calls open as we&#8217;d love to quickly sell something more productive if TZA pops between now and January.\u00a0 The short 2026 $30 and $45 calls are so far out of the money (200%) that I don&#8217;t really count them as cover &#8211; we&#8217;re just waiting for them to expire so we&#8217;ve got lots of money to collect if we get a run back near $14.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111224\/TZAd140984308i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, about $1.2M of downside protection against a 20% drop is pretty comfortable. It covers about half of our Long-Term Portfolio and, hopefully, we&#8217;ll be more nimble than that!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&lt;Thursday&gt;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfly Portfolio Review:<\/strong>\u00a0 $699,428 is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2024\/10\/15\/philstockworld-october-portfolio-review-members-only-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up $159,623 (29.5%) since our last review<\/a> and mainly because we wisely took the money and ran on IBM and flipped bearish in anticipation of an earnings disappointment that dropped them from $231 to $205 (now $211) and now we will make further adjustments to lock in those gains.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While we do play the Butterfly Portfolio very conservatively in general, that is not to say we don&#8217;t take full advantage of fluctuations in our holdings when the opportunities present themselves. In fact, BECAUSE we make selections of historically range-bound stocks for the Butterfly Portfolio &#8211; it&#8217;s often very easy for us to catch those times that stocks stray to the top or the bottom of their channels to our great advantage.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12748316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1160\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-scaled.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-136x300.jpg 136w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-464x1024.jpg 464w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-768x1695.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-696x1536.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-928x2048.jpg 928w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-150x331.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-300x662.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Butterfly-Nov-11-2024-1068x2357.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>AAPL &#8211; We didn&#8217;t touch it last month and it&#8217;s down from $235 to $225 and we sold the Jan $215 calls and $210 puts &#8211; so it&#8217;s all good with us! <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is how Butterfly positions should work, by the way &#8211; don&#8217;t need to be touched for months at a time!<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>BHP &#8211; And then, sometimes, we do make changes: Last month, we took advantage of the dip to $58 and rolled 15 Jan $55s to 30 2027 $55\/70 spreads (doubling down cash-wise) and we sold 10 2027 $55 puts for $7.50 (now $9.55) but our target hasn&#8217;t changed and this is mostly the strong Dollar knocking down commodity prices &#8211; not an inherent problem with the business &#8211; so we play it to normalize.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We have the 5 short Jan $60 puts and that&#8217;s a shame but, rather than buy them back now (at the lows), let&#8217;s do a PRE-ROLL, selling 10 more 2027 $55 puts for $10 (hopefully)<\/span><\/strong> and putting a stop on the Jan $60 puts ($7.80) at $10 so we&#8217;re risking $2,200 on the stop but, if BHP recovers, then we save money on the $60 puts and make money on the new puts as well.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/BHPd092391790i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So yes, it went lower but our target didn&#8217;t change so we simply BUY MORE! Being a Fundamentalist means we have specific values for our stocks that we believe in and, if those beliefs weren&#8217;t built on solid foundations &#8211; WE WOULD NEVER HAVE INVESTED IN THE FIRST PLACE.\u00a0 Because we know something is in our portfolio only for the best of reasons &#8211; we KNOW how to react when there&#8217;s an unexplained sell-off. BHP was VALE&#8217;s partner and guilty party in the dam(n) lawsuit but that&#8217;s old news and new news is they are still making $11Bn per year against a $131Bn market cap &#8211; sounds like a buy to me!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>CSCO &#8211; Earnings were great and $60 is only 15x forward earnings and we sold the Jan $50 puts and calls so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we PRE-ROLL the losing calls, taking advantage of the pop to sell 15 April $60 calls for $3.50 ($5,250) and putting a stop on the 10 short Jan $50s ($9.50) at $12<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 That means, AT WORST, we end up rolling our current short calls with a $8,700 loss to 15 new short calls for net ($8,700-$5,250 =) $3,450 but we made $1,900 on the short puts so only down $1,550 while our longs got deep in the money. We can also take advantage of the pop, which drives up the premium of long-term calls, to <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">roll the 15 short 2026 $50 calls ($11.50 &#8211; $17,250) to 20 short 2027 $60 calls at $7.50 ($15,000)<\/span><\/strong> and, for net $2,250, we have rolled our short calls up $15,000 &#8211; good trade-off!\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/CSCOd095623545i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>And what do we do if CSCO keeps going higher? Simple, we buy more longs! How is that a problem &#8211; we LOVE CSCO&#8230;\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>DAL &#8211; Well, we picked up the full $3,000 on the short Nov puts but not such good news on the short Nov calls, right? They really took off on us but, fortunately, we have $550,000 to spend and this is a small position, so let&#8217;s spend some!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>We have 25 2026 $35 calls ($79,000) and 20 short 2026 $55 calls ($33,250) and 10 short Nov $44 calls ($20,575). <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">March $65s are $6.75 so we need to sell 30 of them ($20,250) for an even roll &#8211; let&#8217;s do that.\u00a0 NOW we have to cover them so let&#8217;s cash in our 25 2026 $35 calls ($79,000) and buy 65 2027 $50 ($24)\/75 ($12) bull call spreads at $12 ($78,000)<\/span><\/strong> which are STILL 100% in the money but potentially $162,500 if $65 holds (aren&#8217;t options great?) so we have <strong>SALVAGED<\/strong> the trade by pushing the short calls into all premium and giving ourselves $84,500 more upside potential if DAL does not go down and we have 2 years to roll the short calls (and sell more puts).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/DALd095876388i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is how the Butterfly Portfolio &#8220;<em>accidentally<\/em>&#8221; makes so much money.\u00a0 We are &#8220;<em>forced<\/em>&#8221; to put more money into positions that are performing strongly, which we had entered because we felt they were undervalued while the increasing call premiums allow us to roll out of trouble <em>(sometimes into more trouble)<\/em>.\u00a0 As I always say &#8211; the only sure thing in the markets is that ALL premium will expire worthless.\u00a0 That is why it&#8217;s so great to buy the $162,500 2027 $50\/75 bull call spread for $78,000.\u00a0 The $75 callers are paying an insane premium while the $50 calls, at $24, are only targeting $74 &#8211; we pay that premium ($9) and then the short callers pay us $12 and we end up paying <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">-$3<\/span> in premium for our IN THE MONEY calls! Aren&#8217;t options fun???<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>DIS &#8211; JUST popped 10% on earnings! And, guess what, we are being hurt by our 15 short Jan $95 calls, now $9.43 ($14,138) but we sold them for $8,025 and we also sold 10 2026 $100 puts for $10,250 &#8211; so it&#8217;s a net gain anyway! Aren&#8217;t options fun? The short puts are still $9.05 but DIS is over $100 and the only way we won&#8217;t collect the full $10,250 is if the short calls expire worthless as we roll them &#8211; see how nice that works out?\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Same situation, we&#8217;ll re-deploy as <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">our 40 2027 $85 calls are now $122,300 and it&#8217;s only a $100,000 potential spread and we are only at our $110 target so let&#8217;s take the bonus money and run!<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>That leaves us with 40 short 2027 $110s at $17.13 ($68,500) and the 15 short Jan $95s at $9.43 ($14,138) so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s buy a cover &#8211; how about 100 2027 $100 ($26.50)\/120 ($17) bull call spreads at net $9.50 ($95,000) and let&#8217;s roll the 15 short Jan $95s ($14,138) AND 20 of the short 2027 $110 calls ($34,250) to 60 short March $105 calls at $7.75 ($46,500)<\/span><\/strong> and that&#8217;s still net net $25,412 off the table and now we have a $200,000 spread that&#8217;s $110,000 in the money covering our short calls and we are happy to buy more DIS if it goes higher but we have 2 years to roll so not worried at the moment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/DISd101592984i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice we are not selling more short puts &#8211; that&#8217;s something we do when the stock pulls back &#8211; not when it&#8217;s making new highs&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>DOW &#8211; As we discussed yesterday, Dow probably deserves to be weak and our short calls ($2,065) will go worthless after 2 months and that leaves us with a net -$8,122 spread that&#8217;s now out of the money so closing it costs us $8,122 but leaving it open means we should roll the 25 2027 $50s ($3.18) down to the $40s ($7) so net $4(ish) is $10,000 in order to make $2,000 perhaps 10 times is not a terrible trade-off so I guess we&#8217;ll keep going (and, of course &#8211; figure out how to make more than $20,000).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let&#8217;s do that roll from 25 2027 $50s ($7,938) to 30 2027 $40s at $7 ($21,000) and we won&#8217;t cover the new calls unless DOW falls lower than $44. We WILL, however, be more aggressive and sell 15 March $45 calls for $2.10 ($3,150) and we&#8217;ll sell 15 March $45 puts for $3 ($4,500)<\/span><\/strong> so we&#8217;re collecting $7,650 and we can&#8217;t lose both sides.\u00a0 Overall, we&#8217;ve spent net $5,412 to put us in a position to sell $7,650 worth of puts and calls over and over again through 2027 &#8211; that&#8217;s worth working with!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/DOWd112039171i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>IBM &#8211; HOME RUN!!! Once in a while we make a perfect adjustment and, as we discussed in the Webinar (so I&#8217;m not doing it again), we hit a grand slam with last month&#8217;s re-positioning.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now we&#8217;re going to lock in our 68.5% gain ($126,750) on the short April $230 calls (because we&#8217;d be idiots to risk it) and let&#8217;s buy them back for $58,250<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 I know that seems painful but it&#8217;s the $126,750 in PROFITS we should focus on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Now we have 100 2027 $210\/270 bull call spreads that are out of the money. The 2027 $190 calls are $39 (+$10) and the $200s are $34 ($+5) and the April$215s are $9.50 so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s sell 50 of those ($47,500)<\/span><\/strong> and that will either pay for us to roll our longs down $10 ($100,000) if IBM is below $215 or, if above, then our longs will be $150,000 in the money to offset any losses on the short calls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/IBMd113362819i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So we&#8217;ve taken ANOTHER net $116,000 off the table <\/strong>(after taking $246,975 last month &#8211; aren&#8217;t options fun?)<strong> and halved our short call exposure and we have an $800,000 potential spread at net $80,095 <\/strong>(because we have very aggressive short puts)<strong> so we also have $720,000 worth of upside potential protecting us from the new short calls and a good 6 more chances to collect $47,500 <\/strong>($285,000)<strong> while we wait to see if we make our $720,000.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is great for a new trade <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(adjusting proportionally and sensibly, of course!)<\/span><strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>IP &#8211; Earnings were amazing but forward p\/e is 19x, which is a lot for IP. Fortunately, we double-sold short puts but the 30 April $47.50 calls are $10 ($30,000) but we sold them for $15,000 so not terrible &#8211; especially as we&#8217;re up $45,900 on our longs.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">By now, I&#8217;m sure you can guess we&#8217;re cashing in the Jan $30 calls ($52,900) and buying 50 2027 $45 ($15.50)\/60 ($8) bull call spreads at net $7.50 ($37,500) and we will roll the 15 short April $50 calls ($30,000) to 25 short June $55 calls at $5.20 ($13,750)<\/span><\/strong> so we&#8217;re really just rolling the loss on the Jan calls and we&#8217;ll see how that plays out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/IPd114400873i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So that whole thing cost us net net $850 but our $45 calls are $55,000 in the money and we are back in the premium-selling business and, again, no additional put-selling with the stock so high in the channel. Our previous spread only had $35,000 potential and now we have $75,000 potential at $60 PLUS the chance to generate a nice income.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>KO &#8211; So glad we waited!\u00a0 Last month I said &#8220;<em>Short calls are in the money but let\u2019s see earnings first<\/em>.&#8221; and earnings were a disappointment to the overanxious bulls (not to us &#8211; this is our target!) so we&#8217;re back on track and <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we can sell 10 June $62.50 puts for $3.10 ($3,100) for balance and let&#8217;s take advantage of the dip and pick up 20 2027 $55 ($11.25)\/70 ($3.85) bull call spreads for net $7.40 ($14,800)<\/span><\/strong> so that, when KO next tests $70, we can cash out our 2026 $50s for $20+ (now $14.13) so we are PRE-COVERING at what we feel is a good price.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/KOd115744345i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>MAT &#8211; Still a great deal. The short Jan calls will certainly go worthless and I&#8217;d rather have the protection of the April $17 short calls as our longs are only 2\/3 covered.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s just see how it plays out for now.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>PFE &#8211; Oh man, they were doing so well and now back down! We&#8217;re aggressively long and I&#8217;m not worried BUT <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we may as well take advantage and buy 100 (pre-roll) 2027 $23 ($5.65)\/30 ($2.60) bull call spreads at net $30,500<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 Our 50 long 2026 $25s are $17,750 and we can (but not now) sell 75 March $27.50 calls for $1.10 but I want $2 and, if we get that, that&#8217;s $15,000 returned in 127 days against our combined $48,250, so 31% in 4 four months while we wait is certainly not terrible&#8230;\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/PFEd120667240i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way, that RSI works both ways, 70 is too high and 30 is too low with very few exceptions so it&#8217;s probably a good time to get longer. Earnings were a beat and they are trading at less than 10x next year&#8217;s earnings &#8211; silly!\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>RIG &#8211; Drill baby drill? Maybe not in deep waters but it&#8217;s a nice money maker with the net $1,125 position collecting $1,240 (110%) since July 31st and <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">now it&#8217;s time for us to sell more short calls so let&#8217;s sell 20 May $4 calls for 0.90 ($1,800)<\/span><\/strong> which is another 160% we can make in 99 days and they are full covered by our open longs.\u00a0 What a boring way to make ridiculous returns, right?\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>In fact, let&#8217;s take that position and double down while it&#8217;s such a good net so &#8211; GREAT FOR A NEW TRADE!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/RIGd121758502i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>TAN &#8211; Well, Trump has certainly put a knife in solar! Down 20% since the election and we&#8217;re about net even on the spread so is it worth keeping? Well, it&#8217;s all about how much we can make and our main position is the 40 2027 $35\/50 spread at net $18,400 and the short $40 puts at $17,700 (we will roll eventually) for net net $700 and we just sold 10 Jan $43s for $3,250 (464%) in September so yes, huge returns means we may as well stick with it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>While tempting to buy back, the short 2026 $60s seem out of reach so why waste the money? $40 doesn&#8217;t seem out of reach for the short puts so no action there and I&#8217;m not super-confident in a bounce so no reason to alter the spread.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">So we&#8217;ll just sell 10 April $36 calls for $3 ($3,000) and just keep the cash rolling in<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/TANd122708680i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TD &#8211; Oh so stupidly low! They got in trouble with regulators but it was a wrist-slap so we&#8217;ll buy back the 10 2026 $70 calls for $800 to lock in $2,300 worth of gains.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not worried about the short $60 puts (we may have to roll the Jans) but <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we can PRE-ROLL (ie. take advantage of the dip) and sell 20 2026 $55 puts for $4.20 ($8,400)<\/span><\/strong> and why not 2027? Because those $55 puts are only $5.60 so why would I give them another year (100%) for $1.40 (33%)? Call us when you have a real offer, right?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now we have our 40 2027 $55\/75 bull call spread at net $22,200 on the $80,000 spread but it&#8217;s all premium so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">our best adjustment is to roll the 40 $55 calls at $7 ($28,000) to the $45 calls at $12.50 ($50,000) and double down ($50,000) on the $45 calls and sell 30 2027 $60 calls for $5 ($15,000) and let&#8217;s roll 20 (1\/2) of the short 2027 $75 calls at $1.25 ($2,500) 20 short March $57.50 calls at $2.25 ($4,500)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/TDd123866657i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So we have spent net net $55,000 but now we have 80 2027 $45 calls that are $92,000 in the money and a very wide spread to sell calls against.\u00a0 We&#8217;re not selling many now as we think TD will bounce on earnings <\/strong>(12\/5)<strong> but our net was $6,600 and we spent $55,000 so net net net $61,600 for a spread that&#8217;s $92,000 in the money and a potential $160,000 at $70 or $120,000 at $60 <\/strong>(more realistic)<strong> and we just sold $2,500 <\/strong>(4%)<strong> worth of March <\/strong>(127 days)<strong> calls while we wait for earnings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>VALE &#8211; Collapsed again despite good earnings.\u00a0 This stock is trading at 5x earnings and should probably be our 2025 Trade of the Year as well!\u00a0 So far though, it has not been kind to us but screw those guys and <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s roll our 15 2026 $17 puts at $7.58 ($11,363) to 40 short 2026 $12 puts at $3.15 ($12,600)<\/span><\/strong> and we still have the $5,925 we originally sold the $17 puts for so now we&#8217;re in 40 2026 $12 puts for a net $7,162 so, if we are assigned 4,000 shares that&#8217;s ($40,000 &#8211; $7,162 =) $32,838 or $8.20 per share in a stock we already think is stupid cheap at $10.\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t options fun?\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>On the long side, we&#8217;re $2 in the money ($10,000) with a year to go but we paid $18,500 so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s improve things by PRE-ROLLING to 100 2027 $8 ($2.60)\/12 ($1) bull call spreads at $1.60 ($16,000)<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> and we can sell 50 March $10 calls at 0.70 ($3,500)<\/span><\/strong> since it can&#8217;t possibly hurt us (covered by the 2026 $8s that we don&#8217;t want to cash out for $2.54) and that&#8217;s a discipline that is paying us back ($3,500\/16,000=) 21.8% in 127 out of 792 days we have to sell on our new 2027 spread.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/VALEd125928525i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>WHR &#8211; Blasting up since earnings and EXACTLY on target ($115) for our Nov short calls which will expire worthless tomorrow with a $5,950 profit since July 16th.\u00a0 The short Jan puts will also go worthless for another $5,850 (aren&#8217;t options fun?) and the net of our primary spread is $42,000 out of a potential $70,000 that&#8217;s pretty much all in the money! Wheee!!!!\u00a0 Yes, options are fun!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>We certainly can&#8217;t not take advantage of this run-up so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s sell 10 March $115 calls for $8.50 ($8,500)<\/span><\/strong> and that&#8217;s 20% of our net in 127 days &#8211; wheee indeed!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/WHRd130433488i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>You can see why the Butterfly Portfolio is our most consistent money-maker. It is the embodiment of our &#8220;<em>Be the House &#8211; NOT the Gambler<\/em>&#8221; philosophy, where we simply sell premium consistently and, when appropriate, take advantage of market gyrations to positions ourselves for high-probability gains.\u00a0 Up 253% in 18 months sums it up quite nicely for a portfolio where we don&#8217;t tend to take a lot of chances.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w5WVljziKj4?si=vQ7NdhS-IMOY4X1b\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Income Portfolio Review:<\/strong> $450,510 is <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">DOWN $3,403 from our last review<\/span><\/strong>. That&#8217;s disappointing and we&#8217;ll see if we can figure out why. We only adjusted SOFI last month and that was an adjustment that worked so we&#8217;ll have to see what&#8217;s not working.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12748672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1317\" height=\"2379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024.jpg 1317w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-567x1024.jpg 567w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-768x1387.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-850x1536.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-1134x2048.jpg 1134w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-150x271.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-300x542.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-696x1257.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Income-Nov-11-2024-1068x1929.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1317px) 100vw, 1317px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Short Puts &#8211; The BCS and SOFI short puts will go worthless in Jan and M is right on track so no worries there.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>BXMT &#8211; $470 dividend coming next month and right on target.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>CMBT &#8211; Dividends are erratic but we made $1,750 on the short calls from June (5 months) and we lost $625 on the short puts &#8211; but we&#8217;ll roll them.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let&#8217;s roll our 10 short Nov $17.50 puts at $4.43 ($4,430) to 10 short May $17.50 puts at $5.25 ($5,250). We can also sell 10 May $12.50 calls for $2.50 ($2,500)<\/span><\/strong> and hopefully they pay us a dividend too.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/CMBTd155058958i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>NLY &#8211; Paid us $650 on 9\/30 so $650 coming next month and we are right at our $20 target.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>CIM &#8211; Paid us $370 on 9\/30 so $370 coming next month and we are right at our $15 target.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>CROX &#8211; Ah, there went our money! CROX fell from $140 to $100 since our last review &#8211; ouch! Earnings were not that bad but guidance was a disappointment. Still that&#8217;s the kind of thing we like to take advantage of and we&#8217;re not worried about our short $110 puts and the short $130 calls will go worthless for a $20,210 gain so the only &#8220;issue&#8221; we have is our 2026 $80\/100 bull call spread that is STILL 100% in the money but only showing net $32,400 out of a potential $60,000.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">So let&#8217;s enjoy the dip and PRE-ROLL our short puts by selling 20 2026 $100 puts for $16.50 ($33,000) as that&#8217;s free money as we REALLY want to own CROX for net $83.50 &#8211; no brainer!\u00a0 Let&#8217;s also roll our 30 2026 $80 calls at $11.65 ($97,500) to 50 2027 $80 calls at $39 ($195,000) and we&#8217;ll roll the 30 short 2026 $100 calls at $21.70 ($65,100) to 50 short March $100 calls at $11.20 ($56,000)<\/span><\/strong>. We&#8217;ve spent net $73,600 and the spread was net &#8211; $8,575 so now net $65,025 but we have 50 2027 $80 calls that are $20 in the money ($100,000) and time and room to roll our short calls to higher strikes so the sky is the limit on this one.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/CROXd155339734i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>We&#8217;ve bought more time to sell short calls and INVESTED in moving the existing short 2026 calls to short March calls that, if they expire worthless, then open up a massive potential income stream for our 50 open long 2027 $80 calls. Think of this as the opening move of a long-term chess strategy that sets up our position.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2026 $125 calls are $12, so that&#8217;s our rolling target if CROX goes higher and that doubles our spread from $20 to $45 <\/strong>($80\/125)<strong> so up is fine with us and down or flat means the $56,000 worth of 127 day calls we sold go worthless and we get to do it again next quarter.\u00a0 Hard not to like, right?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>FLG &#8211; Used to be NYCB and the name change is not helping. Earnings were bad but didn&#8217;t hurt them &#8211; I&#8217;ll take it as a good sign and hold on for the next ones (Jan).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>INTC &#8211; They went up for a change.\u00a0 Amazingly, we got burned on the short Jan $21 calls &#8211; who&#8217;d have thunk it? So, all good on short puts (we assume) and that leaves 50 Dec 2026 $20 calls and 25 short Dec 2026 $30 calls and 20 short Jan $21 calls we sold for $2.50 and are now $4.70 ($9,400) so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s roll those to 30 short March $25 calls at $3 ($9,000) and let&#8217;s add 50 2027 $22 ($9)\/30 ($6) bull call spreads at net $3 ($15,000) on the $8 spread ($40,000 potential)<\/span><\/strong> as this is a very profitable spread so why not double it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/INTCd162769595i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>JACK &#8211; We&#8217;re waiting for earnings on the 20th. The short Dec calls will go worthless for a $3,000 gain and the rest of the position is a net $4,725 credit on the $25,000 spread with the aggressive short March $52.50 puts but, if earnings go well &#8211; we should hit our goal and make a VERY quick $29,725 so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">HOW GREAT IS THAT FOR A NEW TRADE???<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>KO &#8211; Fell from $70 to $62.50 post-earnings. We sold $8,800 worth of June calls, thank goodness so we&#8217;ve got a net gain but KO is nothing to get excited about with flat earnings at 22x. It&#8217;s exciting because we can sell options against it. So we have 25 2026 $50 calls ($35,438) and 20 2027 $65 calls ($11,850) and the 40 short 2027 $72.50 calls ($12,800) seem out of reach as do the 20 short June $72.50\u00a0 ($1,190). <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Since it&#8217;s $1,190 &#8211; let&#8217;s take the 40 short 2027s off the table and let&#8217;s cash out our longs ($47,288) and buy 60 2027 $55 ($11.25)\/67.50 ($4.85) bull call spreads at net $38,400 and let&#8217;s roll 20 (1\/2) of the short 2027 $72.50 calls ($6,400) to 30 short Feb $62.50 calls at $2.50 ($7,500)<\/span><\/strong> as they will decay much faster.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/KOd185639317i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>We bought more time but gave up position as the tight spread will not hurt us as much if KO keeps going lower <\/strong>(and THEN we would roll down the $55 longs)<strong>.\u00a0 The 2027 $45s are $19 and I&#8217;m not going to spend $7.75 to roll down $10 but I&#8217;ll be happy to spend $5 <\/strong>($30,000)<strong> to roll down $10 <\/strong>($60,000)<strong> if we get the opportunity. Otherwise, $55 calls are low enough to sell short calls and we just sold $7,500 worth of Feb calls using 99 of our 792 days so $7 more sales like that is $52,500 and we just put $8,790 in our pocket to put ourselves in a $75,000 spread that&#8217;s $45,000 in the money &#8211; MAN I LOVE OPTIONS!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>PFE &#8211; Just paid us $420 on the 8th so that&#8217;s it for the year of dividends. Earnings were good but Trump\/Robert Kennedy has trashed Health Care stocks (just drink bleach!) and now we&#8217;re a bit underwater (again) on PFE. It&#8217;s now trading at about 9x next year&#8217;s revenues so it&#8217;s another dip we&#8217;ll take advantage of:\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not worried about the 2026 $30 puts and, actually, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s sell 20 more of those for $5 ($10,000) as I don&#8217;t mind owning more PFE for net $25.\u00a0 We own 1,000 shares of the stock at $26.43 ($26,430) but that&#8217;s inefficient compared to owning 100 2027 $20 ($7)\/27 ($3.50) bull call spreads at net $3.50 ($35,000)<\/span><\/strong> as they will make $35,000 at $27 while the stock would make 0.57 ($570). That makes the dividend a sort of non-issue &#8211; especially as the $20\/27 spread is $6.43 in the money ($64,300) and is simply priced stupidly!<\/li>\n<li>The Jan $30 calls will go worthless so not worth $420 to buy them back but it would be terrible not to collect some premiums o <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s sell 30 March $26 calls for $1.70 ($5,100)<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; just in case it goes down a bit more ($25 was the low).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/PFEd191193857i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here we&#8217;ve collected net net $6,530 and we&#8217;ve switched from stock to 100 more longs in a spread that&#8217;s $64,300 in the money <\/strong>(the stock was only $26,435)<strong> and potentially $75,000 so we&#8217;ve TRIPLED our potential gains without spending a penny <\/strong>(but we did commit to buying 2,000 more shares at $30)<strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>SOFI &#8211; No complaints on this one! We added the big spread last month and that paid off very well already &#8211; +$29,000. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We just have to fix our short calls so we&#8217;ll cash out the 30 short Jan $8s ($17,474) and the 50 short Jan $12s ($23,125) and we will sell 75 March $13 calls for $2.25 ($16,875)<\/span><\/strong> to start making it back. No magic fixes here but we don&#8217;t need them as the 250 2027 $10 calls will be worth $125,000 at $15 and the current net of the bull call spread is just $72,125 &#8211; with PLENTY of room to sell short calls along the way &#8211; so miles of upside ahead of us!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/SOFId192983687i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>T &#8211; Even Donald Trump can&#8217;t ruin the phone company, can he? After boring us to death for 2 years, T finally made it&#8217;s move and we have a lot of calls that are now deep in the money.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a $50,000 spread at net $37,750 but we don&#8217;t need to adjust every play so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s just roll the 30 short Jan $20 calls at $2.58 ($7,740) to 50 short April $22 calls at $1.50 ($7,500) and we&#8217;ll see how that goes<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 I kind of want more T but this way if T goes up, I&#8217;ll be forced to buy it to cover the next roll anyway and if T goes down &#8211; I&#8217;ll be very happy I sold the short calls and waited for a better price. Can&#8217;t lose!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/Td193182024i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>UNG &#8211; We&#8217;re right on track and the short Jan calls will likely go worthless for a $3,300 gain against the rest of the spread which is net $7,430 so the short calls we sold in Sept will make us 40.3% by Jan. Thank you sir, may I have another!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>VALE &#8211; Very similar to the Butterfly Portfolio.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let&#8217;s roll our 20 short 2026 $15 puts at $5.40 ($10,800) to 30 short 2026 $12 puts at $3.15 ($9,450) and let&#8217;s pick up that same 100 2027 $8 ($2.60)\/12 ($1) bull call spreads for net $1.60 ($16,000)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>WBA &#8211; Another victim of the Trump election. No one knows if the Government will cover anything anymore. The net of the spread is a $10,350 CREDIT and it&#8217;s a $35,000 spread that&#8217;s $9,590 in the money.\u00a0 We have to clear the short put hurdle ($12.50) but fantastic returns if we do and the short Jan $12.50 calls paid $2,600 (27%) against our credit spread &#8211; so why would we quit? <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let&#8217;s sell 30 April $10 calls for 0.90 ($2,700)<\/span><\/strong> and see how next earnings (Jan) go.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111424\/WBAd195085009i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s funny, in this market, that there are so many opportunities to pick up bullish positions like these. People are really panicking out of positions post-election and we&#8217;re taking advantage &#8211; it&#8217;s that simple.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&lt;Friday&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long Term Portfolio (LTP) Review:<\/strong> $2,869,898! That is <strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">up $343,973 (13.6%)<\/span><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/2024\/10\/15\/philstockworld-october-portfolio-review-members-only-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since our October Review<\/a> and I guess it&#8217;s in-line with our other gains but it&#8217;s such a stunning amount &#8211; we only started with $500,000 in this new LTP back on May 16th of 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is, by far, our most aggressive portfolio but, at the moment, we do have $1,307,318 (45.6%) in CASH!!! &#8211; because CASH!!! is an excellent hedge (as you&#8217;ve seen from all our wonderful adjustments above). Hedges are also excellent hedges and we have about $1.2M worth of them in our STP so, even if the entire LTP is wiped out in a Trumpy Tantrum\u00ae, we will still have plenty of cash to rebuild.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We took a few of our bigger trades off the table last month and my attitude going into this review is that each and every position needs to be a better idea than CASH!!! &#8211; because the market is toppy and US policies &#8211; for good or bad &#8211; are about to change drastically and it&#8217;s far too early to pick winners and losers at this stage: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12749055\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1321\" height=\"2393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024.jpg 1321w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-565x1024.jpg 565w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-768x1391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-848x1536.jpg 848w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-1131x2048.jpg 1131w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-150x272.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-300x543.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-696x1261.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-1-Nov-15-2024-1068x1935.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1321px) 100vw, 1321px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>JD &#8211; Up 70%? <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Take it and run!<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>MGM &#8211; Small enough to let it ride.<\/li>\n<li>RH &#8211; Somehow separated from the rest of the position.\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let&#8217;s kill it and wait for a pullback to sell more puts<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>TGT &#8211; Up 80.7% and way out of the money but <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s kill it<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>VALE &#8211; <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I want to roll these ($15,975) to 50 2026 $12 puts at $3.25 ($16,250)<\/span><\/strong> and we&#8217;ll attach it to the spread below.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>IMAX &#8211; We got the pop we expected so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s roll those 20 short Dec $20 calls at $4.70 ($9,400) to 30 short March $24 calls at $2.70 ($8,100)<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/IMAXd075235474i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>JPM &#8211; There&#8217;s more below. This is a deep in the money $180,000 spread at net $143,250 so there&#8217;s still $36,750 (25.6%) to gain next year and it&#8217;s hard to imagine not collecting it so, better than cash for the moment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>QCOM &#8211; Also broken from the main set at net $21,313 but it&#8217;s out of the money so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">no real point in keeping it<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>AAPL &#8211; The bull call spread is net $200,000 out of potentially $390,000 so the short calls are well-covered so I guess we&#8217;ll just see how they trade into the end of the year. I almost can&#8217;t decide if I want AAPL to go up or down &#8211; so it must be well-hedged!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/AAPLd080069123i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>ADP &#8211; How did this get so complicated? They took off on us but we&#8217;ve already sold PLENTY of short calls so let&#8217;s see what sticks into Jan.\u00a0 I think they should pull back to $290 in the very least.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>AKAM &#8211; Now THIS is what I like to see. Nice pullback for no good reason (bumpy earnings). <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Not worried about the puts (net $85.20) but I&#8217;ll spend $1,525 to buy back the short Jan $95 calls<\/span><\/strong> as it&#8217;s not worth risking our $8,975 gain, is it? I guess <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we can buy back the short 2026 $100s too and re-sell them on a bounce and, I suppose, while they are cheap, we should pick up 30 of the 2027 $90 ($20)\/115 ($10) bull call spreads at $10 ($30,000)<\/span><\/strong>, which is essentially a nice, new net $3,400 (with the short puts) on the $75,000 spread &#8211; that is what I call GREAT FOR A NEW TRADE!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/AKAMd080995337i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>BA &#8211; Ugh, lower and lower!\u00a0 $135 is the bottom of our expected range so I think we&#8217;ll wait for next earnings to decide our next move.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>BABA &#8211; <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">No idea what will happen with China policy so we take the money and run<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>BBY &#8211; Right on track.<\/li>\n<li>BRK.B &#8211; Right on track.<\/li>\n<li>BYON &#8211; Earnings were not inspiring but we will give them another quarter. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We have to take advantage of this low and roll our 50 2026 $10s ($8,000) and our 100 2027 $10s ($24,500) to 150 2027 $5s at $3.30 ($49,500) and those short Jans will go worthless with a $7,320 gain so let&#8217;s sell 75 March $7.50 calls for 0.90 ($6,750)<\/span><\/strong> so all this was net $10,250 to be $15,000 in the money on our 2027 $5s.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/BYONd094981372i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>CIEN &#8211; <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The bull call spread can be exited for net $20,000 and the short puts will go worthless<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>CLF &#8211; In the 2nd set, the Nov $13 calls will expire with a $2,100 gain and the short Jan $12 calls are up $4,425 with $3,825 to go and that&#8217;s against the rest of the spread at net $7,050 with $35,000 potential at $12 (ignoring the puts, which we&#8217;d roll).\u00a0 So there&#8217;s no reason to shut down a spread that&#8217;s making us $10,000 (141%) from Aug to Jan, is there?\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how the short Jan $12s play before doing anything else.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/CLFd095477537i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>COIN &#8211; So crazy! Fortunately, we are long but $154.53 ($927,150) is too much money to leave on the table &#8211; especially as it&#8217;s &#8220;just&#8221; a $600,000 spread.\u00a0 So, buckle up buttercup as <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we&#8217;re going to cash in the 2026 $150 calls and we will buy 100 2027 $300 ($117.50)\/400 (93) bull call spreads at $24.50 for the $100 spread (don&#8217;t you just love options?) and we&#8217;ll roll 30 (1\/2) of the short 2026 $250 calls at $102 ($306,000) to 50 short March $320s at $39 ($195,000)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/COINd100034323i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So we&#8217;re betting the top of the channel holds into next earning <\/strong>(late Jan)<strong> and COIN doesn&#8217;t make dollar for dollar as BTC goes higher. The election caused traders to forget they just missed earnings and we do have a $1M spread to cover.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we took net $571,150 off the table and this spread has already been a huge winner for us this year &#8211; these are just the leftovers we&#8217;re playing with.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a very good lesson in maximizing gains: The spread was net $302,850 and would pay $600,000 at $250 and we took $571,150 off the table ($268,300 credit remains) and flipped to a higher $1M spread that&#8217;s at the money but it won&#8217;t lose money like the $150 calls would if COIN goes lower and we set ourselves up to get back to making money &#8211; selling $195,000 worth of premium for 126 days out of 791 we have to sell.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>CROX &#8211; Boy that HeyDude acquisition is killing them. Still, $100 is 7.7x earnings so this is silly so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we&#8217;ll take the time to roll our $40 2026 $80 calls at $31.95 ($127,800) more than we could make on the spread!) to 100 2027 $90 ($33)\/115 ($23) bull call spreads at net $10 ($100,000)<\/span><\/strong> and now we are $100,000 in the money (was $80,000 in the money with one less year to gain) and putting $27,800 in our pockets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/CROXd101368201i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12749151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1323\" height=\"2114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024.jpg 1323w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-641x1024.jpg 641w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-768x1227.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-961x1536.jpg 961w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-1282x2048.jpg 1282w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-150x240.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-300x479.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-696x1112.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-2-Nov-15-2024-1068x1707.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1323px) 100vw, 1323px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>CRSP &#8211; I&#8217;ve been wanting to add to this so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s roll the 30 2026 $50 calls ($35,100) to 60 2027 $32.50 ($24)\/52.50 ($15.50) bull call spreads at $8.50 ($51,000)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CSCO &#8211; Way over target and we have 80 longs and just 30 short call so let&#8217;s cover off that nice run. T<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">he 2026 $45 calls are $70,125 so we&#8217;ll cash those in and we can roll our 30 2026 $47.50 calls ($38,475) to 60 2027 $50 ($12.50)\/62.50 ($6) bull call spreads at net $6.50 ($39,000) and let&#8217;s sell 25 March $57.50 calls for $3.10 ($7,750)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/CSCOd113134561i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So we&#8217;ve had a bullish spread since November of last year and now we got a nice pop so we&#8217;re cashing in and flipping a bit bearish but happy to buy more longs if they go higher as now we have net net $77,350 off the table!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>CVS &#8211; We already have WBA so let&#8217;s kill this.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>DIS &#8211; How long have we waited for them to get going? I have not changed my mind about a $120 target for Jan, 2026 so l<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">et&#8217;s harvest our gains and sell the 2026 $50 calls for $207,500 and we&#8217;ll buy 100 2027 $100 ($28)\/120 ($18) bull call spreads at $10 ($100,000) and we&#8217;ll roll the 25 short Dec 2026 $115 calls at $20.25 ($50,625) to 40 short April $115 calls at $7 ($28,000)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 We&#8217;re taking net net $84,875 off the table and leaving ourselves with a $200,000 spread that&#8217;s $130,000 in the money &#8211; nice!\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/DISd114650686i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>See the pattern here? We&#8217;re taking CASH!!! off the table and covering <\/strong>(another form of hedging)<strong> our longs so we&#8217;re well-protected against a sell-off. If there is no sell-off and things start going up &#8211; we simply use our cash to buy more longs&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>EQNR &#8211; Green energy in Europe should be safe from Trump. Slow but on track.<\/li>\n<li>F &#8211; Wow, in the green and the short Jan calls are going worthless so we get to sell another round of short calls (we made $6,000 since July 19th on those). <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let&#8217;s sell 50 March $11 calls for 0.90 ($4,500).<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/Fd115159781i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>FL &#8211; The bull spread is net $95,000 out of $150,000 potential and earnings are Dec 4th so let&#8217;s see what happens.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>FLG &#8211; Was NYCB and it really bothers me that they dumped their name, like it was ruined? I&#8217;m in wait and see mode on these &#8211; even though we&#8217;re pretty aggressive, it&#8217;s a small position.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>FLR &#8211; Big move up but right on target, generally.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see where the short Jan calls expire before selling more.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>GILD &#8211; CRUSHED by Kennedy!\u00a0 Good break for us as we sold the Jan $87.50 calls so right back on track for us!\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/GILDd115621369i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>GLW &#8211; Now the folding phones will have TOW screens &#8211; I have to think that&#8217;s more business for GLW? Not only that but AI Everywhere will mean screens everywhere &#8211; great for GLW growth! We are, however, MILES over goal so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s take our $55,750 off the table for the 2026 $25 calls and we&#8217;ll buy 50 2027 $38 calls for $13 ($65,000) and we&#8217;ll sell 50 2027 $47 calls for $8 ($40,000) for net $5 ($25,000) and we can roll the short 2026 $35 calls ($27,300) to 30 short Feb $47 calls at net $2.75 ($8,250)<\/span><\/strong>. That&#8217;s still net $11,700 off the table and our new spread is $8.50 ($42,500) in the money and we&#8217;ve set ourselves up for another income play.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/GLWd120542070i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>GNRC &#8211; Another table-banger but toppy now so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s cash out our 2026 $90 calls at $99.50 ($199,000) and pick up 80 2027 $160 ($58.50)\/190 ($45) bull call spreads at net $13.50 ($108,000) and we will roll our short Nov $155 calls ($27,900) and our short 2026 $140 calls ($120,500) to 50 short\u00a0 Feb $180 calls at $16 ($80,000)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 Here we&#8217;re taking net $22,600 off the table and leaving ourselves with a $240,000 spread that&#8217;s $160,000 in the money and set up to be a nice income producer going forward.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/GNRCd121719974i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before adjusting, the net of the spread was $47,875 and we began at net $12,100 so up $35,000 and we took $22,600 off the table and there&#8217;s still potential to hit $240,000 and if we sell just $40,000 per quarter in premiums &#8211; that&#8217;s another $320,000 of potential income. THAT is why these portfolios make such stunning amounts of money! We simply put our winners back to work <\/strong>(when merited)<strong> and it compounds over time.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>GOLD &#8211; Wow, what a retrace! Good break for us as the short calls expire worthless and we make $2,550 (15.8%) from July 19th against the net rest of the spread at $16,046 the puts are toast so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s clear the deck and buy back the short 2026 $20 calls ($7,225) and roll the 2026 $13 calls ($23,625) to 100 2027 $13 ($5.40)\/20 ($2.40) bull call spreads at net $3 ($30,000) and we&#8217;ll sell 40 2026 $17 puts for $2.85 ($11,400) and we&#8217;ll sell 25 March $17 calls at $1.20 ($3,000)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 That is net net $800 back in our pockets but now we have a $70,000 spread that&#8217;s $36,000 in the money and a good income stream.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/GOLDd123118463i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>HBI &#8211; <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s net $24,000 on the bull call spread so let&#8217;s take that off the table<\/span><\/strong> and leave the short puts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>INTC &#8211; It&#8217;s on track for a change so no changes.<\/li>\n<li>IVZ &#8211; Over our target but only net $39,375 on the $60,000 bull call spread &#8211; so we wait.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>JACK &#8211; If the short June $52.50 calls didn&#8217;t have such a silly premium, we&#8217;d be way up. So it&#8217;s on track and if those June puts ($31,400) go worthless &#8211; we are golden!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/JACKd123754968i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>JPM &#8211; Like I said last month &#8220;<em>the Death Star<\/em>!&#8221; If they are not rejected at $250, we&#8217;ll have some rolling to do but watch and wait for the moment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12749154\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1322\" height=\"1758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024.jpg 1322w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024-770x1024.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024-768x1021.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024-1155x1536.jpg 1155w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024-150x199.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024-300x399.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024-696x926.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-3-Nov-15-2024-1068x1420.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1322px) 100vw, 1322px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>LEN &#8211; The spread is net $15,000 out of $20,000 so 33% more to make and we don&#8217;t need the cash for anything else. Frankly, this is just free money as a new trade if 33% in 12 months excites you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>LOVE &#8211; Dead on target.<\/li>\n<li>M &#8211; The Nov $17s are going worthless for $5,500 and we sold them in July against our net $22,950 spread so it&#8217;s a $23.9% dividend we pay ourselves&#8230; We&#8217;re nicely ahead so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s sell 30 Feb $16 calls for $1.25 ($3,750) and 20 Feb $15 puts for $1.30 ($2,600) and we&#8217;ll see how that goes<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/Md134597879i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>MDT &#8211; Does Kennedy believe in medical devices? This is net $35,000 on a $45,000 spread and, again, we don&#8217;t need the money so no reason to cash it out while we wait.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>MO &#8211; Sin stocks are back! We got burned on <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">the short Jan $47.50 calls ($13,313) so let&#8217;s roll those to 30 short March $55 calls at $3.10 ($9,300) and the short 2026 $47.50 calls are $9.45 and the short 2027 $57.50 calls are $4.25, so let&#8217;s do that roll<\/span><\/strong> to give ourselves $50,000 more headroom for $21,250 (and we&#8217;ll roll the longs one day too).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/MOd135467374i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>MP &#8211; Blew over our target so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s cash in our 2026 $10 calls for $95,000 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(it&#8217;s only a $75,000 spread)<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> and we&#8217;ll buy 150 2027 $12.50 calls for $9 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">($135,000)<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> and sell 125 2027 $22.50 calls for $4.80 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">($60,000)<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> and we&#8217;ll roll the 15 short Jan $47.50 calls ($11,400) to 30 March $17.50 calls at $2.75 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">($8,250)<\/span>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s net net $16,850 in our pockets and now we have a $150,000 spread that&#8217;s $90,000 in the money so we&#8217;ve turned our $95,000 calls into $90,000 worth of calls + $16,850 in cash &#8211; MAGIC!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/MPd140319004i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>MRNA &#8211; It&#8217;s been a terrible spread but a great income producer.\u00a0 People are freaking out re. new Trump\/Kennedy policies but it&#8217;s a big world out there.\u00a0 It&#8217;s amazing that the short Jan $60s are still $1,275 but we should collect the full $9,000 (31% since last month!) against our net $28,875 bull call spread.\u00a0 There&#8217;s really no point to buying back the short 2026 calls\u00a0 and our spread isn&#8217;t that far out of the money so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s just sell 15 March $40 calls for $6.85 ($10,275) and we&#8217;ll\u00a0 roll our 15 2026 $90 puts at $54.35 ($81,525) down to 30 2027 $50 puts at $21.35 ($64,050)<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; that&#8217;s a bit more realistic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/MRNAd141016942i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>MU &#8211; We are collecting $7,525 on the short Jan calls and the rest of the spread is a net $9,400 credit so certainly no reason to ditch this money-maker! There&#8217;s also no pressing need to adjust it so let&#8217;s see how next earnings look.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>NKE (Group 1) &#8211; It&#8217;s a net $25,450 spread ($87,500 potential) so <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we may as well sell 15 March $77.50 calls for $6 ($9,000) while we wait and we can sell 10 March $75 puts for $4.50 ($4,500) as well<\/span><\/strong> (can&#8217;t lose both sides!).\u00a0 That&#8217;s $13,500 &#8211; more than half the spread back in 126 days if we thread the needle.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>NKE (Group 2) &#8211; The short Jan $80 calls will pay us $6,750 and the short 2026 $120s seem unobtainable (so why buy them back?).\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The 10 short Jan $100 puts at $23.63 ($23,630) can be rolled to 20 short 2026 $85 puts at $13.50 ($27,000)<\/span><\/strong> and I don&#8217;t want to sell more calls when they are this low.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/NKEd141755605i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PARA &#8211; I&#8217;m so fed up with these guys! Just have to wait, I suppose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>PFE &#8211; TRASHED by Trump\/Kennedy. Fortunately, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we&#8217;re up $23,275 on our short calls so let&#8217;s close them out (50 and 50) and roll our 160 2026 $22.50 ($63,600) calls to 200 2027 $20 calls at $6.25 ($125,000) and we&#8217;ll sell just 100 2027 $27 calls at $3 ($30,000)<\/span><\/strong> for now as I&#8217;d rather wait for a bounce to cover.\u00a0 The very bullish adjustment is costing us net $31,400 to move our longs $100,000 in the money on a $140,000+ (half uncovered) bull call spread.\u00a0 We started at net $64,550 so we&#8217;re in for about $100,000 and we&#8217;ll make up most of that selling more premium over the next two years.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Since I think this sell-off is silly, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s do a PRE-ROLL of the short puts and sell 50 2026 $30 puts for $6 ($30,000)<\/span><\/strong>. Ideally, when PFE pops, we&#8217;ll buy back the Dec 2025 $37.50 puts for less than the current $13.05 ($26,100) but that&#8217;s what I mean by a pre-roll.\u00a0 If we keep a stop at $30,000 on the $37.50 puts &#8211; then it&#8217;s just a roll of one to the other but, if PFE goes back up &#8211; we make money on both positions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/PFEd145312129i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>PRU &#8211; Doing well despite hurricanes and such. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We&#8217;re getting burned by the short Dec 2025 $100 calls so we should roll those $30,700 to 30 short March $125 calls at $7.90 ($23,700)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/PRUd145796137i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12749218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1322\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024.jpg 1322w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024-794x1024.jpg 794w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024-768x990.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024-1191x1536.jpg 1191w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024-150x193.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024-300x387.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024-696x898.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/LTP-4-Nov-15-2024-1068x1377.jpg 1068w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1322px) 100vw, 1322px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>QCOM &#8211; Now this one is low in the channel, so here we go! Actually it&#8217;s right on track but the premium on the short Jan $170 calls is crazy. I almost feel like selling more but let&#8217;s just see how it plays out.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>RH &#8211; Nicely on track. It will be fantastic if those short calls go worthless.<\/li>\n<li>SOFI &#8211; Another table-banger that did good&#8230; <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s a $5 spread and we can collect $9.13 ($91,300) on the long calls &#8211; I kind of have to do that<\/span><\/strong> &#8211; I feel stupid not taking the money.\u00a0 So now we have money and a problem &#8211; the short 2026 $10 calls at $5.55 ($55,500).\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The 2027 $20s are $3.40 so, if we were to roll to 160 of those ($54,400) it will cost us $1,100 to push the calls $10 higher &#8211; let&#8217;s do that<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Now we need to cover them and we have $90,200 left and the 2026 $10 calls are $5.60 &#8211; so we can afford 160 of those &#8211; very convenient &#8211; let&#8217;s do that!<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Now, at no cost, we have rolled our 100 $5\/10 bull call spread at net $35,750 and $50,000 potential to a $160,000 spread that&#8217;s $56,000 in the money with an extra year to sell short calls &#8211; MAGIC! Which reminds me, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s sell 40 (1\/4) April $14 calls for $2.15 ($8,600)<\/span><\/strong>. After all, we are here to make money&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/SOFId151347736i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>SQ &#8211; At our goal so time to cover. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Let&#8217;s sell 10 March $82.50 calls for $10 ($10,000)<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/SQd151669565i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>STLA &#8211; So low (5x earnings) I don&#8217;t want to sell short calls.<\/li>\n<li>TECK &#8211; Right on target so waiting patiently\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>TGT &#8211; On track for us but watch out for the triangle squeezy thingy &#8211; which is going to pop right on earnings next week (hopefully up).\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/TGTd151828125i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>UPS &#8211; Right on track.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>VALE &#8211; At just $470, <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">let&#8217;s buy back the short 2026 $15 calls<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s unlikely but, if it happens, I will feel much more than $470 stupid. Our $8\/12 spread is on track. We can roll the short puts whenever and we have the bonus $10 calls and it&#8217;s too low (p\/e 5) to cover.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>VFC &#8211; At our target already but only net $31,000 on a $45,000 spread so let it ride, I guess.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>WBA &#8211; Hoping next earnings don&#8217;t suck.<\/li>\n<li>WHR &#8211; How smart was I with that aggressive short put target?\u00a0 This spread was a net $10,500 credit with $80,000+ potential but <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">we&#8217;re up 213% on the long calls at $141,200 so of course that&#8217;s coming off the table.\u00a0 Now we have to roll the 20 short Jan $100 calls at $14.05 ($28,100) to 30 short March $110 calls at $10 ($30,000) and we&#8217;ll cover that with 60 2027 $95 calls at $28.50 ($171,000) and sell 50 2027 $120 calls at $17 ($85,000)<\/span><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/WHRd153460792i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall, that&#8217;s net $57,100 off the table and now we have a potential $150,000 spread that&#8217;s almost entirely in the money and we just sold $30,000 ($20%) worth of calls using just 4 of the 25 months we have to sell!\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t options fantastic?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>YETI &#8211; They got complicated. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">We have 40 2027 $30s and 25 2026 $30s and that&#8217;s annoying so let&#8217;s spend $2.60 to roll the 2026 $30s to the 2027 $30s<\/span><\/strong> and then we&#8217;ll just have 70 of those.\u00a0 The short puts are fine so ignore and now it&#8217;s all about 40 short 2027 $45 calls and 10 short Jan 40 calls that are on target and 20 short 2026 $50 calls. Wow, there&#8217;s nothing else to do, this is a perfectly balanced trade!\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/publish.finviz.com\/111524\/YETId153896662i.png\" alt=\"Finviz Chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Well, that was fun. Turns out I&#8217;m more bullish than I thought I was but that&#8217;s with 2 months until Jan 20th, 2025 &#8211; so we&#8217;ll see.\u00a0 The markets are off today but we&#8217;re very well-hedged and we just added hundreds of thousands of short calls to our open longs &#8211; also a hedge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Options are fun but owning lots of diversified, well-hedged value stocks is even more fun.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>That reminds me &#8211; my next project is picking the 2025 Trade of the Year!\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S&amp;P 6,000!\u00a0 We just closed above that mark for the first time yesterday and, unfortunately, we&#8217;re about to put a ring on it &#8211; one of those rings around RSI 70 that has, VERY RELIABLY, market the beginning of a sell-off 3 times in the past two years. Will this time be different? No &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12747744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12747741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-available","8":"category-portfolio-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12747741"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12749219,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12747741\/revisions\/12749219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12747744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12747741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12747741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philstockworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12747741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}