So I’ve been watching AIG pretty closely given my current in-play covered call trade, and I’ve noticed that the daily highs and lows can be pretty large swings. I’ve also noticed that, over the last few days, it seems to be swinging through the same range of prices over and over again. Having just read about trading puts, I decided to dip my toe in the water by doing a long put with AIG.

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Continuing my series summing up my covered calls done for October expiration, the last trade done was against Eastman Kodak (EK). I found EK as a result of using TradeKing’s option strategy screener, where the primary filtering criteria was to stay within the limits of the unallocated cash within our GI portfolio, and secondary criteria where profitability vs. risk analysis.

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Continuing from yesterday’s post, I’m now discussing the second trade completed this past Friday, part of three trades I’ve done for the October expiration period. In this case, I’d discovered that the premiums on AIG were huge, and that meant getting a decent profit while still being cautious. But was I too cautious?

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Last Friday, I initiated three new covered call trades using our GI portfolio. I’m getting more and more nervous that we’re going to have a downward correction soon, but I decided to gently push things one more time for October expiration given that it was only 3 weeks away. I also decided to purposefully try exploring a few different situations in making covered calls.

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This month, we had three open option positions waiting for September expiration, which was this past Saturday. I was still out on vacation then, so I’m just checking on things now. A quick login to TradeKing shows that we’re back to all cash, so clearly all three positions got assigned – our desired result.

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