Stock and Options Trading

Trading Week Ending 07/17/26

July 18, 2026
This week was a lot less trading, mostly in part due to running out of available funds to trade with. Apparently, that’s what happens when you sell weekly puts but monthly covered calls. I suppose that was the obvious outcome to everyone except me. To put it another way, the timeframe on the puts and

Trading Week Ending 07/10/26

July 12, 2026
This was a wild week. I had a lot going on, probably too much. I started blogging again, something I’ve done off and on over the years, I used to teach it. And as you can see, I started putting my weekly trades in my blog, but today, I had a Frankenstein’s Monster of an

The Wheel Strategy – Introduction

July 10, 2026
“The Wheel” would be a great name for a cheesy horror movie about a possessed wheel…. But a strategy to defeat a demonic wheel is not what this is. I know, I’m disappointed too. The Wheel Strategy is simply a very safe, and boring, way of trading options. And it doesn’t take very long to

Trading Week Ending 07/03/26

July 7, 2026
I was assigned my 100 shares of NOK so I did the following: Sold one NOK 31 JUL 26 14 CALLSold two NOK 2 JUL 26 11.5 PUTs Over the weekend I had opened a ROTH and moved my profit into it. My plan for the ROTH is to use nothing more risky than the

Trading Week Ending 06/26/26

June 30, 2026
I experimented with continuing to do weekly puts, but monthly covered calls, so I accomplished the following: I sold 1 NOK Cash Secured Put at the $13 strike price I sold 2 Covered Calls on DKNG I sold 1 Cash Secured Put on DKNG at the $25 strike price. And I sold 1 TOST Cash

Trading Week Ending 06/19/26

June 29, 2026
My DKNG was called away for a profit. I sold some Cash Secured Puts, some got filled but others weren’t so I changed my mind during the day and cancelled some orders that didn’t get filled in favor of more of the ones that did get filled for DKNG and NOK. My DKNG shares were

Today’s Trading (06/12/2026)

June 17, 2026
Disclaimer: I’m not now, nor have I ever been, a financial advisor. Don’t do what I do just because I do it, I am not responsible for your decisions. Learn and do for yourself, take responsibility for your own decisions. I like to trade stocks and options. I’ve done it off and on over the