{"id":7786,"date":"2020-06-01T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=7786"},"modified":"2020-06-01T14:12:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T18:12:39","slug":"made-a-couple-trades-with-oxy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=7786","title":{"rendered":"Made a Couple Trades with OXY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 5\/26 I bought 1000 shares of Occidental Petroleum (OXY) at $14.50, and on 5\/28 I bought another 1000 shares at $13.90.<\/p>\n<p>I placed 2 separate orders for 10 contract Calls. I placed the orders and hit my gym for an hour. I just got out from my workout and noticed OXY had a run up at about 1pm. I was filled on both orders.<\/p>\n<p>For the shares I own at $14.50 I sold a 10 contract Call to expire on Friday 6\/12; I didn&#8217;t like the $14.50 premiums expiring on 6\/5. I received a premium of 40\u00a2 for $400. This is a Covered Call on a solid stock so it gets a <strong>Risk Factor 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>5\/26\/20 \u2013 Buy 1000 Shares OXY @ $14.50<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>6\/1\/20 \u2013 Sell to Open 10 OXY 6\/12\/20 $14.50 C @ 40\u00a2 (+$400)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 40\u00a2 return on a $14.50 stock is a return of 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">__________<\/p>\n<p>For the shares I bought at $13.90 I sold 10 contracts of the OXY 6\/5\/20 $14.00 Call for a premium of 30\u00a2 for $300. This also is a<strong> Risk Factor 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>5\/28\/20 &#8211; Buy 1000 Shares OXY @ $13.90\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>6\/1\/20 &#8211; Sell to Open 10 OXY 6\/5\/20 $14.00 C @ 30\u00a2 (+$300)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This trade gives me a 30\u00a2 on a $13.90 stock which is a return of \u00a02.1% for a 1 week trade. This fits into my &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=422\">1 Week\/1%<\/a><\/span>&#8221; strategy.<\/p>\n<p>I really like both of these trades and I think both will work out nice.<\/p>\n<p>Successful Trading,<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 5\/26 I bought 1000 shares of Occidental Petroleum (OXY) at $14.50, and on 5\/28 I bought another 1000 shares at $13.90. I placed 2 separate orders for 10 contract Calls. I placed the orders and hit my gym for an hour. I just got out from my workout and noticed OXY had a run [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7786","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P75MP0-21A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7787,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7786\/revisions\/7787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}