{"id":4017,"date":"2018-02-14T12:09:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2018-02-14T12:09:28","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T17:09:28","slug":"filled-on-rh-adjustment-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?p=4017","title":{"rendered":"Filled on RH &#8220;Adjustment Trade&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please go to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=191\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Active Trades\/Current Positions<\/span><\/a>.&#8221; At the very beginning of that page I talk about <strong>Adjustment Trades<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday I sold an RH 20 contract $95 Call for a $1 premium ($2000) to expire this Friday, 2\/16\/18. Yesterday RH went down and I was able to get out of that position by doing a &#8220;Buy to Close&#8221; with a 50\u00a2 premium ($1000). <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Recap<\/span>: On Monday I did a &#8220;Sell to Open&#8221; which is<strong> Sell<\/strong> a Call Option to <strong>Open<\/strong> the position. I sold this option for a $1 premium for a $2000 gain. Yesterday I did a &#8220;Buy to Close&#8221; which is <strong>Buy<\/strong> the Call Option to <strong>Close<\/strong> the position. For you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=1218\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Grasshoppers<\/span><\/a>, selling an option is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/?page_id=446\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Short Position<\/span><\/a>. To close a Short Position you must buy back the option to close and exit the position. This concept is extremely important to understand if you want to trade options. It&#8217;s also important to understand if you only want to trade stocks. Most successful stock traders Long and Short stocks.<\/p>\n<p>At this point of my <strong>Adjustment Trade<\/strong> I sold the option for a $2000 premium and I exited the position by paying $1000 leaving me with a $1000 profit. Just a few minutes ago I completed the Adjustment Trade by selling another Call. Today RH is up and I sold 20 contracts of the 2\/16\/18 $96 Calls for another $1 premium to bring in another $2000.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Sell to Open 20 RH 2\/16\/18 $96.00 C @ $1.00 (+$2000)<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at my Adjustment Trade and what I accomplished. I love to make trades like this when I&#8217;m dealing with a volatile stock. When the stock was up I sold 20 contracts of the 2\/16\/18 $95 Call for $1. When the stock came down I sold the option for 50\u00a2, making 50\u00a2 for a $1000 profit in one day. Today with the stock up I sold another Call. This time it was a 20 contract 2\/16\/18 $96 Call for another $1. With the stock going up and down, I was able to better my position and locking in a $1000 profit with another $2000 to be locked in when the Adjustment Trade expires this Friday. Not only did I lock in more profit but I was able to changed my Strike Price from $95 to $96. Since the stock is still below where I got in, I would rather not get assigned on expiration. The higher Strike Price will make it less likely to get assigned.<\/p>\n<p>If RH closes below $96 this Friday I&#8217;ll keep my 2000 shares of the stock and make a total of $3000 in premiums for the week.<\/p>\n<p>Please email me any questions on this Adjustment Trade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steve<\/p>\n<p><em>The Options Coach<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please go to &#8220;Active Trades\/Current Positions.&#8221; At the very beginning of that page I talk about Adjustment Trades. On Monday I sold an RH 20 contract $95 Call for a $1 premium ($2000) to expire this Friday, 2\/16\/18. Yesterday RH went down and I was able to get out of that position by doing a [&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-4017","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\/p75MP0-12N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mainstbeatswallst.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}