{"id":15845,"date":"2025-08-08T15:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=15845"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:46:02","slug":"bought-1-msft-and-2-tsm-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=15845","title":{"rendered":"Bought 1 MSFT and 2 TSM  Calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"199\" data-end=\"478\">I&#8217;ve been using January 2026 as my go-to expiration, but with just 6 months left, I&#8217;m now starting to push out to March 2026. That gives me 3 extra months of protection, especially useful if we get the pullback I&#8217;m expecting.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"501\"><strong data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"501\">Today&#8217;s Trades:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4 data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"528\"><strong data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"526\">Microsoft (MSFT)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"528\"><strong>Buy to Open<\/strong> <strong>1 MSFT 3\/20\/26 $520.00 C @ $44.00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"629\" data-end=\"660\">\n<h4 data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"687\"><strong data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"685\">Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM )<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"687\"><strong>Buy to Open<\/strong> <strong>2 TSM 3\/20\/26 $240.00 C @ $28.40\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"665\" data-end=\"687\">\n<p data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"1024\"><strong data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"839\">Rationale:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"825\" data-end=\"1024\">If the market dips in the near term, the extra time could be key. These are high-conviction names, and I want the time for them to recover if needed.<br data-start=\"839\" data-end=\"842\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Successful trading,<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using January 2026 as my go-to expiration, but with just 6 months left, I&#8217;m now starting to push out to March 2026. That gives me 3 extra months of protection, especially useful if we get the pullback I&#8217;m expecting. Today&#8217;s Trades: Microsoft (MSFT)\u00a0 Buy to Open 1 MSFT 3\/20\/26 $520.00 C @ $44.00 [&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-15845","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\/p75MP0-47z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845","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=15845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15846,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15845\/revisions\/15846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}