Month: July 2019

Last Thursday, July 11th, I sold 100 shares of PayPal (PYPL). In the post reporting that sale I said I’d be back in PYPL very soon. Well I just jumped back in with a LEAP option. On 8/23/17, almost 2 years ago I bought 100 shares of PYPL at $60 per shares. On 7/11/19 I […]

This week was a great week! I feel like I’m getting back into trading full swing. I sold 1 long term position which locked in some nice money. In addition, closed 3 other short term position. The long term position was with PayPal (PYPL). Way back on 8/23/17 I bought 100 shares of the stock […]

This might be the 1st Put position I bought since the inception of Main Street beats Walls Street. I’ve been trading options for close to 30 years now, and I don’t know if I ever bought a Put before. Crazy! Well , there’s a first time for everything. Now that I’m not coaching basketball I’m […]

I just jumped out of my Netflix (NFLX) LEAP option. I bought this 3 contract option on 6/27/19 and it was not due to expire until 6/19/20. I was only in for 2 weeks but I sold my option with a $1200 profit. LEAP Options are long term and most of the time you hold […]

Today I sold 50 shares of Apple (AAPL). I’m not sure what the profit is but I did sell at a profit. I’ve been buying AAPL 5 and 10 shares at a time for a long time and accumulated 150 shares. I bought the shares at all different prices ranging from $153 per share and […]

Way back on August 23rd, 2017 I bought 100 shares of PayPal (PYPL). I just sold these shares. I still really like the company so let me explain why I sold. The last few years, while coaching basketball, my trading slowed a bit because of time dedicated to coaching. While coaching, with my trading curtailed, […]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is on the move today. Instinet raises Price target to $37 from $33. Instinet is an institutional, agency-model broker that also serves as the independent equity trading arm of its parent, Nomura Group. It executes trades for asset management firms, hedge funds, insurance companies, mutual funds and pension funds. I have […]

Earlier today I placed 3 separate orders to sell (3) different 10 contracts Calls. All of these Calls were with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to form a position I call a “Triple Play Hedge.” I was filled on all of my orders while I was not home. I was actually driving my car and I […]

I am out of my house and not monitoring my computer. Before I shut down my computer I placed 3 orders to sell 3 options against 1000 shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). I call this strategy a “Triple Play Hedge.” At the moment I’m driving to Fiore’s Pizza (my pizza joint) and I just […]

I just bought more shares of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). I now own 2000 shares! On 4/3/19 I bought 800 shares of AMD at $29.50. On 4/8/19 I bought an additional 200 shares at $28.90. At this point I owned 1000 shares at an average price of $29.38. Please note, on my “Active Trades/Current Positions” […]