{"id":15835,"date":"2025-08-08T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=15835"},"modified":"2025-08-08T10:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:38:07","slug":"closed-2-pltr-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=15835","title":{"rendered":"Closed 2 PLTR Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"259\"><strong data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"259\">Trade Update \u2013 PLTR Options<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"538\">I started the day holding 4 PLTR Call options expiring January 2026 \u2014 2 with a $155 Strike and 2 with a $180 Strike. The stock has been on fire lately, and I\u2019ve been locking in profits in anticipation of a pullback. Despite trimming, I plan to maintain a position in this stock.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"540\" data-end=\"625\">With today\u2019s big open, I decided to sell 2 of my Calls. The question was: which ones?<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"627\" data-end=\"899\">The deciding factor was <strong data-start=\"651\" data-end=\"660\">Delta<\/strong>. Two of the Calls had a Delta of <strong data-start=\"694\" data-end=\"702\">0.78<\/strong>, and the other two were at <strong data-start=\"730\" data-end=\"738\">0.63<\/strong>. Since Delta measures how much an option moves for every $1 change in the underlying stock, the higher-Delta options move more in both directions \u2014 up and down.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"901\" data-end=\"1079\">Expecting a near-term pullback, I chose to sell the <strong data-start=\"953\" data-end=\"983\">higher-Delta ($155 strike)<\/strong> Calls. This way, if PLTR drops, my remaining lower-Delta ($180 strike) Calls will decline less.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1081\" data-end=\"1121\"><strong data-start=\"1083\" data-end=\"1121\">Closed 2 Calls for a $3,700 Profit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1125\" data-end=\"1182\"><strong data-start=\"1125\" data-end=\"1136\">7\/28\/25<\/strong> \u2013 Bought 2 PLTR 1\/16\/26 $155 Calls @ $28.00<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1262\"><strong data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1195\">8\/8\/25<\/strong> \u2013 Sold 2 PLTR 1\/16\/26 $155 Calls @ $46.50<\/p>\n<h4 data-start=\"1185\" data-end=\"1262\"><strong data-start=\"1243\" data-end=\"1262\">Profit: +$3,700<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the power of LEAPS options. My ROI with these Calls in<strong> 66%<\/strong> in a little over a week. In this time the stock moved $32. If I bought 200 shares of the stock I would have made $6.400. However, my ROI would have been<strong> 20%.<\/strong> I invested less money for a larger percentage return.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Successful trading,<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trade Update \u2013 PLTR Options I started the day holding 4 PLTR Call options expiring January 2026 \u2014 2 with a $155 Strike and 2 with a $180 Strike. The stock has been on fire lately, and I\u2019ve been locking in profits in anticipation of a pullback. Despite trimming, I plan to maintain a position [&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-15835","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\/p75MP0-47p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835","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=15835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15836,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835\/revisions\/15836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}