The Wisdom Forum: Option tradings according to PCA Guy

Thanks a lot to PCA Guy for kindly sharing his playbook! I sure hope others will do the same instead of just taking in my gibberish :)

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As WABBIT pointed out I am crazy for a 62 year old guy.

I had about 7 stocks represented in 11 different strikes going this morning plus actually on PLCE puts I had a total of 55 puts at 3 different strike prices (not normal). It's hard to keep them straight.

Yesterday I had decided to use a blanket approach on my trades figuring that one or two might be big winners and the rest not so good. That turned out to be the case. AAPL good, RIMM bad. POT good, MOS bad. The AAPL trade was the best overall trade, followed by LDG, SAFM, and POT. RIMM is the worst trade followed by MOS. PLCE and CRM each made a small profit.

BUYING OPTIONS

When I buy my position I place an order to buy 5 contracts at a lower price than it is trading. If it is something I like say POT then I place an order to buy at 20 cents less, and 40 cents less, and 6o cents less and so forth. This is how I got to 45 contracts today on POT because it dropped so much. My highest cost was $13.10 and my lowest cost was $11.0 for PYPFV today.

SELLING OPTIONS;

Normally I fish around for the best price when I only have a few trades going using a limit order. This morning I had been holding 2 different calls on AAPL,& RIMM, and one position each on POT and MOS.

Because the market opened down and AAPL and RIMM opened up in the first half hour I did use market orders to sell my 4 different call strikes on RIMM & AAPL but I knew the stock price was good. I also used a market order to sell my 20 POT calls and it's a good thing because POT never got back to that price today. I just had a feeling it was going to drop more and was lucky. I picked up a total of $4258 on my AAPL, RIMM, and POT call trade closeouts. Lost money on RIMM but made real good money on AAPL. Still holding 5 MOS calls at a loss right now.
I used limit orders to sell my PLCE, LDG, SAFM, and CRM puts.
I picked up $2840 profit on those 4 positions when I closed them out. Fast Money guys seemed to say that people should buy CRM and PLCE last night so I was willing to let them go with thin margins.

I found nothing I was willing to short today in this down market and I realize I am gambling against the current trend on POT, DRYS, and OIH. But these are stocks the Fast Money boys will gloat over so I took a risk that they will get behind them again.

Dang near bot puts on FLS but Karen Finerman really touts this baby on Fast Money.
Next Tuesday's earnings reports don't look favorable for a straddle that I could find.

I hope I'm not too windy but I wanted to answer your question.

PCA GUY