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Week in Review
June 27 – July 1, 2016
| NEW POSITIONS/STO | NEW STO | ROLLOVERS | CALLS ASSIGNED/PUTS EXPIRED | CALLS EXPIRED/PUTS ASSIGNED | CLOSED | EX-DIVIDEND |
| 2 / 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 | 5 |
Weekly Up to Date Performance
June 27 – July 1, 2016
Well, this was an interesting week.
Just when it looked like….
….It turned out not to be that at all.
In fact, it was the best week in 2 years, even with Monday’s big decline.
When it was all said and done, last week’s decline, which had taken the market back into negative territory for the year with its continued loss to open this week, was once again showing a gain on the year.
There were 2 new positions opened this week and along with most everything else, they went higher, just not high enough as the gains were constrained by the sale of call options.
Those positions were 2.2% higher, finishing 1.0% lower than both the adjusted and unadjusted S&P 500. The basic index ended the week being 3.2% higher, as those 3 post-Brexit days mid-week changed everything.
With 2 new assignments on the week closed positions in 2016 were 6.8%
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igher, while the comparable performance for the S&P 500 during the same holding periods has been 1.6% higher. That represents a 337.7% difference in return on closed positions. That would be much more impressive if there were many more closed positions in 2016, but that just hasn’t been the case, although the pace has been slowly increasing
This was a good week.
It’s always nice to see asset values rise, but i also like seeing activity.
This week had 2 new positions opened, 2 positions rolled over, 2 positions assigned and 5 ex-dividend positions.
It has been a long time since having that much activity and I enjoyed it immensely.
I also enjoyed seeing the week come to a close on a less effusive note, as it’s always more comforting to see support levels being established, rather than meteoric moves higher.
Those are hard to sustain, especially if there continues to be overhead resistance and there is definitely overhead resistance ahead.
With a couple of assignments this week, I would welcome some more opportunity to add new positions, but with volatility again dropping, it may be difficult to find anything suitable, especially with only 4 days of premium ahead of us next week.
Then again, I didn’t think that there would be much chance of spending money this week and things turned out very differently.
With only a single ex-dividend position next week and no positions set to expire, I might succumb to the desire to generate some additional revenue.
If so, that would mean having to recycle some of the money from this week’s assignments.
As has been the case lately, I wouldn’t mind recycling the money right back into positions that had just gotten assigned if there is any early price weakness as the week gets underway.
That has been a pretty good formula lately, especially in those positions that still had some reasonable volatility associated with them.
Otherwise, it may end up being a quiet week, as has been the case for much of 2016.
I hope that whatever next week brings, it does bring a happy and safe Fourth of July to all.
This week’s details may be seen in the Weekly Performance spreadsheet * or in the PDF file, as well as in the summary below
(Note: Duplicate mention of positions reflects different priced lots):
New Positions Opened: EBAY, MRO
Puts Closed in order to take profits: none
Calls Rolled over, taking profits, into the next weekly cycle: none
Calls Rolled over, taking profits, into extended weekly cycle: none
Calls Rolled over, taking profits, into the monthly cycle: none
Calls Rolled Over, taking profits, into a future monthly cycle: GDX, NEM
Calls Rolled Up, taking net profits into same cycle: none
New STO: STX
Put contracts expired: none
Put contracts rolled over: none
Long term call contracts sold: none
Calls Assigned: MRO
Calls Expired: HFC
Puts Assigned: none
Stock positions Closed to take profits: none
Stock positions Closed to take losses: none
Calls Closed to Take Profits: none
Ex-dividend Positions: CY (6/28 $0.11), DOW (6/28 $0.46), EMC (6/29 $0.11), WFM (6/29 $0.14), GPS (7/1 $0.23)
Ex-dividend Positions Next Week: CSCO (7/5 $0.26)
For the coming week the existing positions have lots that still require the sale of contracts: AGQ, ANF, AZN, BBBY, BBY, CHK, CLF, COH, CSCO, CY, DOW, FAST, FCX, GDX, GM, GPS, HAL, HFC, HPQ, INTC, IP, JCP, JOY, KMI, KSS, LVS, MCPIQ, MOS, NEM, RIG, WFM, WLTGQ, WY (See “Weekly Performance” spreadsheet or PDF file)
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