There’s no other thing to say: shame on me. Below is the options chart of CVNA. I owned (past tense) March $260 puts. As the red line shows, I dumped them at a small loss. Why? Because I got nervous. I have no excuse.

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There’s no other thing to say: shame on me. Below is the options chart of CVNA. I owned (past tense) March $260 puts. As the red line shows, I dumped them at a small loss. Why? Because I got nervous. I have no excuse.

As we approach the end of the year, I was glancing at my portfolio and taking note of some positions I had sold in recent weeks which went on to much better gains. Keeping in mind these are VERY conservative positions (long-dated, in-the-money puts), the gains are that much more impressive. Or shall I say the “could-have-been” gains………..
WING March $400 puts sold @ 53.00 (went up 117%)
DHI June $170 puts sold @ 14.50 (went up 114%)
NEE March $90 puts sold @ 8.00 (went up 130%)
LUMN April $10 puts sold @ 1.90 (went up 145%)
EWZ March $28 put sold @ 2.10 (went up 205%)
The five underlying securities are shown below. The rough part is that not only have all five of these positions tacked on triple-digit profits after my own profit-taking, but I don’t think any of them are anywhere close to being done to falling!
(more…)Just a few examples from our Options Chart product of how regret can be presented to you in an efficiently agonizing fashion.
