Showing posts with label WAG naked puts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WAG naked puts. Show all posts

Monday, July 16, 2012

Profitable trade: Walgreen's (WAG) Naked Puts

On Friday I closed the following transaction for a profit:

5/30/12   STO  3 WAG Jul 21 2012 28 Puts @.41   $110.75
7/13/12   BTC  3 WAG Jul 21 2012 28 Puts @.03       -9.04

I was able to close the trade without paying commissions so I pulled the trigger. In this trade we made $101.71 in 44 days on ~$1200 in margin maintenance. This equates to a return on maintenance of 8.47% or 70.26% annual. I would have rolled out and/or down but with the recent rise of WAG above 30 I decided to wait. If and when WAG drops to 29 and change I will look to sell the 27 or 28's.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

New Trade: Walgreen's (WAG) Naked Puts

Today with the markets in the red and Walgreen's trading down at $30.80 I entered into the following transaction:

5/30/12   STO  3 WAG Jul 21 2012 28 Puts @.41   $110.75

The margin maintenance is ~$1,000 for this 52 day trade. This equates to ~11% return on margin in 52 days or 77.21% annual if they expire worthless.

WAG has had great support at the 31 level and these puts are a full 10% below that. If put to us the yield on cost will be 3.25% which is way above historical highs for this Dividend Champion.