Great work!! Need to learn from you how to wiggle out of positions that go against us.
In this case it was a hell of a lot of work and patience, catching the dips and pops to close, resell, roll, etc.
But the main winner was rolling puts - last week I had written 50x -p230's for 9/15 and they'd already gained 60% profits by last Friday, so I rolled up to 30x -p245, which looked like a poor decision when we closed at 245 last week, but genius on Monday when we gapped-up... this of course put my calls in the dumpster, but the -p245's went to nothing fast, closed them for 10c and rolled them to 30x -p260, these also lost value fast an I could close on Wednesday 80% profits, then wrote again at -p270, which also allowed me to straddle with 20x of the -c260's
Yeah, it was not easy, but all the profits on the put rolls covered all the call losses, but I cannot do that every week, not funny!
The 50x -p230's were initially sold for $5850, but the sequence of rolls generated $36800, plus the profits from the -c270's closed today, an extra $6780, which offset the total losses on ITM call/rolls $39600 -> so in fact around $4k realised for the week = not much, but when you get a +10% day and you have a ton of short calls, that's a good outcome
The mechanics of options trading is really simple, but trying to explain it I find really hard!!