Intel Put Option

With Intel closing at $26.27 on Wednesday August 15th, it appears that the $25 August 2012 put option that I sold back in July will expire yet again unless the share price takes a 5% hit between now and end of trading Friday.


Intel Put Options
Put Option Premium Return (%)
$25 July 20 2012 $45.01 1.80%
$25 August 17 2012 $38.01 1.52%



I first sold the July 2012 put option on June 11 which means between that date and expiration of the August 2012 put option this Saturday there were a total of 67 days. When you annualize the premium return, 3.32%, you get an annual return of 18.09%. That’s not too bad considering that’s just money sitting in my account. I really like the idea of selling puts for stocks that you want to get into just at a lower price point. I don’t think I’ll be selling a put option for September’s expiration because the premiums are too low at the $25 strike. Although depending on what the $26 strike premium looks like it might make sense to sell one.

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  1. I like your strategy. I too have been selling a lot of puts against companies I want to own anyways. I'm curious what are you paying in commissions? I typically try to collect at least $100 in premium per contract so the fees don't eat so much into my profit.

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  2. I'm currently paying $8 in commissions, which is a little high. I don't worry too much about the commission because when I run my calculations to check the profit/loss I usually try to target at least a 1% post commission return. What stocks have you been selling puts on. I can't sell as many puts as I'd like because it takes so much cash.

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    1. If you click my name and click on the "options" tab you can see all of my options trades for the year. I am close to $2000 in premiums collected especially since my cop puts are expiring. Also using Etrade I only need to keep about 15% of the cost of the shares being assigned in my account. That way I can put my cash to work in other places in the meantime.

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    2. I'll have to check what Fidelity requires. I might open a option account somewhere else and keep my regular DG/FI account separate. Although it's nice having everything in one place but I know I could save money on commission at other places.

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  3. I like your strategy too, and seem to go along with austinbroker in trying to collect at least a $100 premium to help offset the commissions. I sold Aug 18 puts for WM and FCX and expect both to expire. In July I was assigned SWY but had INTC, JNJ, PG and WAG all expire. I would also like to see some good premiums come back around for $25 INTC puts.

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  4. I would like to get $100 in premiums but for me its all about the price if executed. If I'm not getting the shares at a price I've calculated to be fair value then so be it. A one or two day drop in the market would do wonders for some put premiums.

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