Subject: October 20, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 20, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 20th, 2015 at 10:52 am EDT

October 20, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio We need to get longer: BTO 2 COST Apr-16 155 calls (COST160415C155)STC 2 COST Apr-16 150 calls (COST160415C150) for a credit of $2.82 (selling a vertical) BTC 1 COST OCT4 15 152.5 call (CO ...

October 16, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio

October 16th, 2015 at 9:57 am EDT

October 16, 2015 Trade Alert - Rising Tide Portfolio We need to get longer: BTC 1 COST Oct4-15 150 call (COST151023C150)STC 1 COST Jan-16 150 call (COST160115C150) for a credit of $3.23 (selling a calendar) BTC 1 COST Oct4-15 150 call (COST1 ...

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 ...