[19 Jan Trades] PLTR & NIO Weekly CC Contracts, Collected SGD$1k Premium (9 days DTE) | How To Generate Returns When The Market Is Going Down

On 19 Jan 22, the stock market continued to tumble for most of the stocks that I own. Last Friday (14 Jan 22), I closed some of my covered call positions in Palantir and Pinterest and made USD400 in 2 trading days, while these stocks are falling in share price.

Yesterday (19 Jan 22), I close these covered call positions in Nio and Palantir (see bold brackets for my final premium collected when contracts were closed).

Name of Stock	Strike Price (USD)	Premium Collected (USD)	Returns (%)
Nio	32	74 —–> (62)	1.62 (1.36)
Palantir	16	14 x 40 = 560 —-> (462)	1.85 (1.53)

After locking in the profits for Nio and Palantir, I opened up another 2 weekly covered call contracts for these 2 stocks and the contracts expire next Friday (28 Jan 22). I adjusted the strike price to make it close to ATM CALL and collected another round of premium.

Name of Stock	Strike Price (USD)	Premium Collected (USD)	Returns (%)
Nio	29	130	2,85
Palantir	15	14 x 49 = 686	2.27

The returns are higher this time round, probably due to a higher IV that is caused by the upcoming earning season. If the share prices of these 2 stocks stay the same or even go lower than yesterday’s closing price, then I will keep the premium (USD816/ SGD1.1k) without having to sell away my Nio and Palantir shares, which translates to more than 2% returns in 9 days.

This is one strategy that I use to keep generating returns when my existing stocks are falling in share prices and helps to reduce the average (breakeven) prices of the stocks that I own. The risk of this strategy is covered in my previous article and you can read more about it here:
How I Do Earn Even When The Stock Market Is Bearish?

I hope this article is useful to you, especially when the continual falling share price is making you feel demoralized and depressed about investing/ trading. Hang in there and keep your morale high to win the battle and the war!

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