{"id":1366,"date":"2016-03-25T18:01:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T22:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2016-03-25T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T01:25:07","slug":"results-week-ending-32516","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Results Week Ending 3\/25\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week was a strange week. If you follow &#8220;Main Street bets Wall Street&#8221; you know I am holding stock is Facebook (FB) and Netflix (NFLX) and I&#8217;ve been playing these 2 stocks like a piano. For weeks I&#8217;ve been selling options on both companies. In fact I received a few emails asking why I&#8217;m only making deals with FB &amp; NFLX. I answered the emails saying, #1, I&#8217;m not doing <strong>Buy-Writes<\/strong> where you buy stock and sell Calls at the same time. These are previously owned stock that are below the price I paid so I&#8217;m sell Calls, bringing in money while I wait for the stocks to get up above the price where I bought. #2, I&#8217;m a big believer in concentrating on a few stocks and not getting overwhelmed by watching 8 or 10 stocks and their options at once. Please read the page &#8220;Philosophy, Strategy &amp; Risk.&#8221; you&#8217;ll see under <strong>&#8220;Focus on a Few&#8221;<\/strong> my philosophy on the amount of stock I watch at once. I&#8217;ve been concentrating on FB and NFLX and it&#8217;s been working out so I continues working with these stocks. Another reason for not getting involved in other companies is FB and NFLX are very high priced stocks. I&#8217;m holding 1000 shares of NFLX that I&#8217;ve been selling Calls on and 1500 shares of FB. These 2 stocks tie up a lot of cash.<\/p>\n<p>I said it was a strange week because I tried to sell Calls on my 1000 shares of NFLX and I never got executed. Every day I placed an order. I didn&#8217;t want to go for a lower premium than I was looking for and I didn&#8217;t want to lower the Strike Price. I stayed very disciplined and didn&#8217;t get executed. Sometimes it happens! I&#8217;ll try again on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to FB, I sold a Call on Tuesday and received a premium of $.50. I was pretty happy because on 1500 shares it brought me a total premium of $750 and it was a shortened trade week. The market was closed today for Good Friday. I bought 1000 shares of FB on 2\/3\/16 for $111.50 and another 500 shares on 2\/17\/16 at $100.50. With the 15 contracts I sold on Tuesday, I had the Strike Price of $113. Thursday at the close, FB was at $113.05. I got assigned on all 1500 shares. If you read my post when I sold the Call with the Strike Price of $113 you saw I wanted to get assigned. I feel FB has had a great run so I wanted to get out of the stock to watch for a while. I&#8217;m happy the way this worked out.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see what the profit was. On the 1000 shares I bought at $ 111.50 and sold at $113 (the Strike Price) the profit is <strong>$1500<\/strong>. On the 500 shares I bought at $100.50 and sold at $113 the profit is <strong>$6250.<\/strong> In the last 2 months I sold a lot of Calls on the 1500 shares and brought in a lot of premium money but this week the premium I brought in was<strong> $750.\u00a0<\/strong>This week for selling the Call and getting assigned to close the FB position the total profit is <strong>$8500.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the page <strong>&#8220;Trade History.&#8221;<\/strong> Look at the amount of Calls I sold on FB with 15 contracts since I bought the stock on 2\/3\/16 &amp; 2\/17\/16. This was a very profitable run with FB. I will watch the stock closely to see if I want to get back involved. I&#8217;m sure I will.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Weekly Total Profit $8500<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Money in the Mattress<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Take a look at a few links below. If you have any questions with any of the trades I made on Facebook please send me an email.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=301\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Covered\u00a0Call.<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In this post I mentioned Buy-Write. Read about it under Covered Call.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=384\">Philosophy, Strategy &amp; Risk<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=92\">Assignment<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Havs a great Easter!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week was a strange week. If you follow &#8220;Main Street bets Wall Street&#8221; you know I am holding stock is Facebook (FB) and Netflix (NFLX) and I&#8217;ve been playing these 2 stocks like a piano. For weeks I&#8217;ve been selling options on both companies. 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