Haven’t incorporated Cash Secured Puts into my reporting. Essentially, one sells a PUT somewhere below the current price, pockets the proceeds, then waits for expiration. During the holding period, an amount equal to the PUT’s strike * 100 * number of contracts must be reserved to secure the transaction (at least in an IRA). So for these two, I must hold $5500 and $4250 in reserve incase I’m assigned the shares at the strike (i.e., I’m forced to buy them at that price.) If assigned, I’ll have positions in a stock I was going to buy anyway at a lower price. BUT, I give up the opportunity for a quick TtP-S turnaround sale (like the one reported today) in a few days with a very high ARoI.

Since I was going to buy them anyway, at a higher price, I decided to do CSP’s instead of outright buys. I chose to make two trades instead of the now normal one, because I may not be assigned either.

At the end are pics of the review software under development.

The transactions as reported by IB.