{"id":1611,"date":"2016-05-11T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2016-05-11T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T19:00:16","slug":"out-of-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"Out of Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I bought 100 shares of Amazon (AMZN) for $711.93 per share. I put in an order to sell a Call trying to get a $7 premium that would expire this Friday. The stock was going up and down all day but I never got executed on my Call. With the stock up at $718 I decided to grab the sure thing and I sold the stock. I figured, why hold the stock for 2 more days? I had a nice profit for holding the stock a few hours, so I bailed out. You never know what will happen tomorrow! No trader ever went broke taking a profit! Here&#8217;s the buy and sell orders for the 100 shares:<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Buy 100 shares AMZN @ $711.93<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sell 100 shares AMZN @ $718.00\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Profit +$607<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Money in the mattress<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As I write the market&#8217;s at session low. It&#8217;s nice making a few bucks on a down day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Steve<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier I bought 100 shares of Amazon (AMZN) for $711.93 per share. I put in an order to sell a Call trying to get a $7 premium that would expire this Friday. The stock was going up and down all day but I never got executed on my Call. With the stock up at $718 [&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-1611","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-pZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","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=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}