On 12 April 2022, the US stock market started in the green after the release of Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for March, which is at a record 8.5%, the highest since 1981. After consecutive days of market going down from last week, including the huge selloff on Monday, my covered call contracts have generated some returns (guaranteed profits) for me, if I were to close them now.
This means that due to share price falling, the premiums that I have collected (from selling the covered call contracts) are now higher than the premiums that I need to pay if I wish to close the contracts now. So, if I close the contracts now, I will get the profits (difference of 2 premiums) without the requiring to fulfil the obligations of the contracts.
In a covered call option contract, the seller benefits when the share price falls, because it will be further away from the Strike Price (recall that if share price is higher than strike price upon expiry, the seller is obliged to sell his shares to the buyer at the strike price). The more the share price falls, the lower the premium will become and thus, the higher profits will be generated. On the contrary, if the share price rises, the call options contract’s premium increases and the returns (profits from closing) drops.
When I saw from the premarket that the market was in the green, I was on standby to close my covered call contracts in AMD, Nvidia (2 contracts), Palantir, Nio and Tesla, when the market started at 9.30am (US time). I was trying to quickly close the contracts and secure maximum profits before the share prices rise further, which I thought would usually be the case as investors FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) buy.
As you can see from the Profit Summary Table below, my total earnings from closing 6 covered call contracts that I have started last week is SGD3,187 (USD2,361).
If you are interested to know the details of these trades, the contract details as follow. They are basically OTM call options, which give me a higher margin of safety of my shares getting call away at the expense of a lower premium.
After closing the covered call contracts, I waited for the share price to stabilise and started another round of new covered call contracts, as I believe the market is not able to sustain the momentum to keep pushing up the share prices, especially with a high CPI data figure. As it turns out, the share prices of the various stocks such as Nvidia, AMD, Tesla, started falling after I sold the covered contracts. If you have noticed from the trade details table above, I closed my Tesla covered call contract within the same day and earned a profit of USD250.
This happened as I sold the covered call contract when Tesla was at USD1,010 and closed it when Tesla was trading below USD1,000, all happening on the same day. As I have explained earlier in the post, share price drop equates drop in premium which results in higher profits earned. I later sold another covered call contract on Tesla at a lower strike price of USD1,150 and collected a premium of USD2,320.
In the coming days, the share prices may continue to fall and my strategy would be to keep rolling (close and open new contracts) to a lower Strike Price) or a later expiration date. If there is an unexpected rally, then I will be looking for opportunities to sell away my LEAPS contracts or roll my PUT contracts.
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