More Option Trades - AA, MO and CAT

I’ve been debating my next move on AA since I wrote about it a couple of days ago here. I decided to wait to see how the markets reacted to whatever the Fed did today.  AA was down and up and down and up.  I happened to exit my Feb 27.50 calls (AABY) while it was on an upward swing and while AA was trading at 33.02 I bought back my calls for 5.70 a piece, which was about 20 cents of time value remaining. AABY’s last trade of the day was at 5.30.  AA closed the day at 32.70.  I traded poorly, but was in the mindset that the masses decided stocks should rise after the cut and I cut my losses.  I still have my two sets of four puts at Feb 30 and 32.50. 
I paid $2,292.99 with commissions after selling them for $866.99.  That’s a loss of $1,426 that […]

Original post by Alex Fotopoulos

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