{"id":11175,"date":"2021-04-19T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2021-04-19T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:28:51","slug":"grasshopper-trade-with-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=11175","title":{"rendered":"Grasshopper Trade with X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to leave my hotel for the airport and was just filled on a Grasshopper Trade with U.S. Steel (X).<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday I bought 100 shares of X at $23.30. I also sold a 1 contract Call to expire on 4\/16. I was not assigned so I just sold another Call. I sold 1 X 4\/23\/21 $23.50 for a premium of 80\u00a2 for a total of $80.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>4\/19\/21 &#8211; Sell to Open 1 X 4\/23\/21 $23.50 C @ 80\u00a2 (+$80)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This 80\u00a2 premium gives me a Return of 3.4%. If assigned this will be a very nice Grasshopper Trade.<\/p>\n<p>This trade gets a<strong> Risk Factor 1<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Successful trade,<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about to leave my hotel for the airport and was just filled on a Grasshopper Trade with U.S. Steel (X). Last Wednesday I bought 100 shares of X at $23.30. I also sold a 1 contract Call to expire on 4\/16. I was not assigned so I just sold another Call. I sold 1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75MP0-2Uf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11176,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions\/11176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}