Traders leave money on the table. It comes with the territory. Sometimes the amount they leave on the table dwarfs whatever they were able to capture. This surely applies to me. Don’t get me wrong; I’ve had a lot of great ideas in recent months, and as I stand here now, I am aggressively short, having closed almost no positions (on the contrary, I’ve added).
Before I get to the regret I present to you my top percentage gainers from my existing bearish positions; these are all put options, and I presently have a hodgepodge of them with an average expiration date 104 days in the future. In other words, they’ve got lots of time to get even more profitable.
Hey, hey! Four triple-digit gainers, and a fifth just about to cross! Nice, Tim!
No. Not so fast.
I now present to you the change in price (based on when I sold it) of the FORMER options positions; in some cases, I re-entered the trade, thus benefiting from the drop in the stock, but regardless, here are the independent put options positions which I dumped (sometimes at a profit, many times at a loss!!) Let’s just say this portion ONLY shows the triple digit movers!!!!!
