Terry's Tips Stock Options Trading Blog

November 8, 2024 Terry’s Tips Trade Alert #3 – Rising Tide Portfolio We continue chasing delta higher:     BTC 1 COST 15Nov24 905 put (COST 241115P905)STC 1 COST 20Dec24 905 put (COST 241220P905) for a credit of $13.20 (selling a calendar) (100%) BTC 1 COST 15Nov24 935 call (COST 241115C935)STO 1 COST 15Nov24 960 call […]

June 5, 2024 Terry’s Tips Trade Alert – Wiley Wolf Portfolio We are closing put spreads to increase delta:   BTC 1 MSFT 21Jun24 402.5 put (MSFT240621P402.5)STC 1 MSFT 19Jul24 435 put (MSFT240719P435) for a credit of $15.35 (selling a diagonal) (100%)  BTC 1 MSFT 21Jun24 405 put (MSFT240621P405)STC 1 MSFT 19Jul24 430 put (MSFT240719P430) […]

May 31, 2024 Terry’s Tips Trade Alert #3 – Rising Tide Portfolio This completes rolling out and adds two call spreads:     BTC 1 COST 31May24 795 put (COST 240531P795)STO 1 COST 21Jun24 800 put (COST 240621P800) for a credit of $13.45 (selling a diagonal) (100%) BTO 1 COST 19Jul24 830 call (COST 240719C830)STO 1 […]

April 1, 2024 Fool Me Once … There was nothing on the weekly earnings docket that I considered trade worthy. Even the few names I recognized were either too low-priced, had lousy options or bid/ask spreads, or, most importantly, not giving me a good chart read. During slow earnings periods – which include next week […]

March 5, 2024 Sunny Outlook We’re headed back to the bullish side this week with a trade on First Solar (FSLR). The country’s largest solar module maker reported earnings on Tuesday after the bell. Earnings per share came in above estimates, while revenue fell short despite growing more than 15% year over year. The company […]

January 31, 2024 Dear [[firstname]], Here’s your Option Trade of the Week as included in this past weekend’s Saturday Report for our Terry’s Tips Premium Members.The credit from last week’s trade ran away from us pretty quickly, so I opted to pass on sending it out knowing that you wouldn’t get the minimum credit. This […]

January 17, 2024 Dear [[firstname]], It may be a little late, but Happy New Year! I haven’t sent an issue for a while because the credits for our weekly trades weren’t close enough to my target entry prices. As you know, I will not send an issue with a trade you have no chance of […]

December 13, 2023 Dear [[firstname]], I haven’t written for a while because the credits weren’t close enough to my target entry prices. This week, however, the credit is higher than when I sent the trade to our premium subscribers, meaning your maximum profit is now greater. Before I get to the trade, I want to […]

October 31, 2023 Avast Ye Schwabs Two call spreads in Estee Lauder (EL) and the SPDR Healthcare ETF (XLV) expired worthless yesterday for gains of 25% apiece. To be fair, our bullish spread on Lululemon Athletica (LULU) expired in the money a week earlier for a larger loss. But the LULU misstep interrupted a string […]

October 10, 2023 With earnings reports virtually dried up this week and wanting to stay on the bearish side, I had to go back a few weeks to find reports that failed to impress the Street. One name that popped up was a stock that we successfully played (28% profit) for a bullish winner back […]