We’re continuing with the plan we shared last Friday. The September calls have been closed, and we’re still holding the January calls. Now, I want to lower our cost basis even more by selling additional upside premium.

I’m selling 2 Nov 110 calls at $4.40 each, which will reduce our cost basis by another $880. This leaves $1,080 still at risk in the trade.

After November, if the stock remains below $110, we’ll have the opportunity to let our January calls keep running. We’ll also likely sell more upside calls in January, turning our diagonal spread into a vertical spread, further lowering the cost basis.

This is how we can continue to make bullish bets in the stock while having limited capital at risk.


Chris Douthit
Chris Douthit

Chris Douthit, MBA, CSPO, is a former professional trader for Goldman Sachs and the founder of OptionStrategiesInsider.com. His work, market predictions, and options strategies approach has been featured on NASDAQ, Seeking Alpha, Marketplace, and Hackernoon.