Subject: October 15, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 15, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 15th, 2015 at 3:40 pm EDT

October 15, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio We have enough cash to roll out of one of the in-the-money calls: BTC 1 COST Oct4-15 150 call (COST151023C150) STO 1 COST OCT5 15 152.5 call (COST151030C152.5) for a debit of $1.15 (selling ...

October 14, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 14th, 2015 at 1:56 pm EDT

October 14, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio All of our short calls are now well out of the money and we can pick up some nice premium to help protect against further weakness: STO 1 COST Oct4-15 150 call (COST151023C150) for $1.95 BT ...

October 12, 2015 Trade Alert #2 - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 12th, 2015 at 12:11 pm EDT

October 12, 2015 Trade Alert #2 - Rising Tide Portfolio We should get a little longer: BTC 2 COST Oct-15 152.5 calls (COST151016C152.5)STO 2 COST Oct4-15 155 calls (COST151023C155) for a debit of $1.06 (selling a diagonal) Be prepared to chan ...

October 12, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 12th, 2015 at 10:04 am EDT

October 12, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio We can pick up a little premium and still remain comfortably long: STO 1 COST Oct4-15 155 call (COST151023C155) for $.95 Be prepared to change this price limit by $.05 or more in order to get ...

October 9, 2015 Trade Alert #2 - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 9th, 2015 at 12:08 pm EDT

October 9, 2015 Trade Alert #2 - Rising Tide Portfolio These trades will boost theta a bit and set up a new long-term break-even range that the stock will be flat or higher in 6 months: BTO 3 COST Apr-16 155 calls (COST160415C155)STC 3 COST Apr- ...

October 9, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 9th, 2015 at 10:27 am EDT

October 9, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio We can take a nice 50% profit on this spread and free up $500 of maintenance requirement, and we can use the cash to collect some premium and get longer: BTC 1 COST Oct-15 140 put (COST151016P1 ...

October 8, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 8th, 2015 at 3:26 pm EDT

October 8, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio We need to get longer: BTC 2 COST Oct4-15 148 calls (COST151023C148)STO 2 COST Oct5-15 152.5 calls (COST151030C152.5) for a debit of $2.40 (selling a diagonal) BTC 1 COST Oct4-15 148 call ( ...

October 8, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 8th, 2015 at 11:27 am EDT

October 8, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio With the stock up $2 today, these short calls are getting too much in the money (there is little time premium to collect): BTC 2 COST Oct-15 148 calls (COST151016C148)STO 2 COST Nov1-15 152.5 ...

October 7, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 7th, 2015 at 9:45 am EDT

October 7, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio We have become negative net delta: BTC 1 COST OCT2 15 146 call (COST151009C146)STO 1 COST Oct-15 150 call (COST151016C150) for a debit of $2.05 (selling a diagonal) BTC 2 COST Oct-15 147 cal ...

October 6, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 6th, 2015 at 12:08 pm EDT

October 6, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio The stock is looking stronger than the overall market. This small tweak will get us a little longer: BTC 2 COST OCT2 15 146 calls (COST151009C146)STO 2 COST Oct-15 148 calls (COST151016C148) ...