$ORCL VERTICAL 250912 CALL 355.0/CALL 350.0$ ORCL: high risk betting trade. ORCL moved up 40% today after earnings despite a double miss. The promise of better returns and order book as enough to push the stock and also lots of other sympathy stocks play. Not convinces the 40% can sustained, setup this bear call with short call strike at $350 and long call strike at $355 for 2 contracts with max loss exposure of $1k. Contracts to expire this Fri 12th Sept. Reward is potential collecting $260 for this trade and risking $1k for 2.5 days of trade.
$SPY 20250910 651.0 PUT$ The past 2 days, SPY has the classics trading pattern when the ticker is of mildly bullish momentum. The stock usually gap up from the previous close, it will however comes back down to close that gap it created during its opening before reversing back up higher. The set up was to either get in early to open the trade, in my case here selling cash secured put with little intention to take assignment, with strike around the strike of yesterday's closing value Going in early will yield a higher premium, or to wait out for the price to play its course, when it dips back lower to close the gap (sometime a short distance away) before reversing back higher up. This trade is of su
$IWM CALENDAR 250926/250912 CALL 230.0/CALL 230.0$ IWM: collect $135 (0.55%) premium in this covered call roll up. Similar strike used at $230 and the current one expiring on 12th Sept so decided to close and roll to new covered call to 26th Sept. The small caps has been moving up well of late, probably some money rotation in play as most big tech stocks are at or near all time highs. Still a distance away from its all time high, so I think IWM will challenge that level soon.
Forecast a Good CPI Night: Play IWM Bull Strategy with Limited Loss & Unlimited Gains!
I learned a strategy which are a good bet on $iShares Russell 2000 ETF(IWM)$ before the crucial August CPI (Consumer Price Index) data released.Buy 10 call options with a strike price of $242 and expiring on September 15, 2025 (Buy 10 Sep15'25 242 CALL).Simultaneously sell a put option with a strike price of $242 and expiring on September 15, 2025 (Sell 1 Sep 15'25 242 PUT).And buy a put option with a strike price of $232 and expiring on September 15, 2025 (Buy 1 Sep 15'25 232 PUT).This strategy aims to anticipate the impact of major economic data, locking in risk while minimizing the cost of a trading opportunity with unlimited returns.Note: The cost of this strategy is the price of buying 10 calls - the price of selling one put + the price of buy
$Verastem(VSTM)$ sharing for the coins. Bought this while it was $6 and now I'm up 65% so far. Small biomedical company so pricing can be quite volatile. Their main products deals with cancer. Most of the gains now are actually after its earning on Aug 7 and before that it was actually trading near $4.
$SMCX 20251017 34.0 CALL$ Another trade closed at TP. Decided to increase liquidity and wait out for other opportunities after rate cuts. #GreatWin[Miser]
🚘📈⚡️ Rivian Is Coiling for a Monster Move… Will Traders Play the Breakout With $16 Calls or Sell $14 Puts for Stock Exposure? ⚡️📈🚘
$Rivian Automotive, Inc.(RIVN)$$Volkswagen AG(VLKPY)$$Ford(F)$ I’m fully convinced $RIVN is pressing into one of its most critical inflection points since going public. The charts, the fundamentals, and the options chain all align for a probability-weighted roadmap. 👉❓Would you play the breakout with $16 calls for convexity, or sell $14 puts for discounted stock exposure at $12.50? 📊 Technical Compression & Setup Rivian is pressing into the top of a symmetrical wedge on the weekly chart, with multi-year Bollinger Band compression and bullish RSI divergence signaling energy buildup. The 20-month SMA has flipped to support, a strong trend change marker. $15.50