SKF Call Options Sold For 20.6% Profit In 23 hours!

On the 03/24/09 at precisely 03:58:26 PM EDT we purchased a short position on the financials, via buying April 2009 $100.00 call options on ProShares UltraShort Financials (SKF) for $16.49, the leveraged inverse financial ETF. At 03:02:02 PM EDT in the next day of trading, we sold these contracts for $19.90, making a profit of 20.06% in just 23 hours.



We are very pleased indeed with how this trade worked out, this truly was an exceptional return in such a short space of time.

The chart above shows us closing the position pretty much at the peak of the day, just minutes before the market bottomed. We didn’t know that this was the “top” in SKF for the day, or that the financials would begin to rally minutes after we closed, we simply saw a profit of 20% on the table and decided to take it. When the market offers us such a generous return, we think it is prudent to take that money off the table and bag the profit, so this is exactly what we did.

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Comments

[BC]

I bought SKF a bit late and then didn't like what I saw and closed mine out at about even. It looks like your timing is spot on. Great going.

I have been more pleased with a couple of covered call from 3/17. Buy C at 2.44 sell the APR 3.00 calls for 0.31 (I now have C at a net of 2.13). Buy GE at 9.32 and sell the APR 10.00 calls for 0.72 (I now have GE at a net of 8.60). Just before expiration I will see how things look and select a best case. As long as the premium remains this high, I will keep on selling calls and reducing my net cost for the stock. When the premium drops, I will look elsewhere. I am also looking at X for the same strategy.

[Gold Prices]

Hi BC,

Yes we are noticing the volatilty preimums increasing across the market, however we dont really want to hold anything in stocks like C.

However we are considering writing out of the money calls on our gold stock holdings.

Sam