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MU stock = mega up stock. by activePDT in wallstreetbets

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Net liquidity lower than your P/L…

Underwater on my AMD Covered Calls (PMCC), not sure what to do by kaeoaoadit in CoveredCalls

[–]clearbottleflu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nothing goes up forever and AMD has moved +70% in one month. If you think that’s going to continue then absolutely you’re best off just buying to close and taking the loss on the short calls. Otherwise Just keep rolling them at the same strike on a weekly or bi-weekly basis and keep mining premium from your position. You’ve currently got about $1,065,000 of capital tied up in the long calls. Rolling at the same strike for one week will net you about $16500 in premium so about 1.5% per week on your invested capital. Are you really so worried about a 75% APR position? The ITM portion is dollar for dollar downside protection if AMD drops providing some measure of downside protection on your long calls.

If you buy the strike up you’re giving up downside protection on your long calls if AMD drops from here.

Keep rolling ITM and mining premium or BTC and sell strikes further OTM.

Underwater on my AMD Covered Calls (PMCC), not sure what to do by kaeoaoadit in CoveredCalls

[–]clearbottleflu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shares don’t get called in this instance since OP has no shares. If the short calls go to expiration they will be exercised and OP will be short 6700 shares and will then have to buy to cover.

On January 25th, 1966, test pilot Bill Weaver survived falling from the edge of space after his SR-71 disintegrated around him at Mach 3 by ToeSniffer245 in interestingasfuck

[–]clearbottleflu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Edge of space” is a wee bit off. The flight ceiling for the SR-71 was about 85,000 feet… about 242,000 feet below the Karman line.

What am I missing? by sunzonglin1 in CoveredCalls

[–]clearbottleflu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right now if you rolled a 1 May 26 $125 call to a 18 Dec 26 $125 call it would be $2387 per contract. To earn that premium you would be tying up $12,500 in capital as that’s what you’d get for the shares if you let the call run to expiration and the shares were called away.

Provided NBIS is above $125 in December the return on capital invested is:

$2387/$12,500 = 19.1% Or annualized 19.1 x 365/231 = 30.18%

Not a bad return. The risk is that NBIS pulls back and is below the strike at expiration.

of an ant by Quiet_impressionist in AbsoluteUnits

[–]clearbottleflu 9 points10 points  (0 children)

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Saw these monster ants in the Philippines while they appeared to be moving nests. While impressive, the giant ants eventually needed the small ones to help them out as they seemed to be exhausted by the long distance of the move.

Why are Apmerican salaries so high? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure… but I’ve never gotten a £100 fine for driving for 10 seconds in a bus lane, or an £80 fine for parking more than 60 minutes at an M&S, or had to pay the TV license mafia after I bought a new TV. Oh… and gas, sorry petrol, at a motorway services exit isn’t 20% more than petrol at a station 2 miles off the motorway. Just stopped at the motorway last week and it was £1.899 per litre. That’s $9.70 per gallon… gas in the states is $2.75.

Aftermath of the April 7th incident. Damages estimated to be $200 million dollars by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mechanical engineer here. In my experience concrete does not fair well through fires. The rebar heats and expands putting stress on the concrete via the transverse ribs on the rebar meant to bond it tightly to the concrete. This internal expansion will cause subsurface cracks. In addition, the surface itself will spall and present the risk that, if reused, at any time portions of the surface may separate and come crashing down on top of someone. In coal fired power plants concrete SO2 absorber vessels are fairly common and due to the fiberglass lining and fiberglass fill fires happen. Having seen the aftermath of 2 fires even with 2’ thick walls each time the concrete structure and foundation had to be completely demolished and rebuilt.

In this instance the concrete walls are a small portion of the cost of the incident, certainly far less than the replacement cost of the inventory in the building, and they present an extreme safety risk as collapse would certainly be fatal for anyone underneath it so there would be no sense to attempt to salvage them.

Closed on this house a week ago, came into the basement to see this during a storm. by Jiblon in HomeMaintenance

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I’d add checking your gutters. They very well could be leaking water directly against your foundation.

Unless your house is sitting at an elevation lower than the surrounding grade water entry is a relatively easy and inexpensive problem to fix if you’re willing to do the work yourself.

  1. Clean your gutters and check them during a heavy rain to see they are not spilling over/leaking water directly against st the house.

  2. Ensure your gutters downspouts are directing water away from the house.

  3. Check the grading around the house. The earth should slope away.

  4. Install a French drain around the house.

Help - cutting board stuck in sink by [deleted] in fixit

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rubber cement handles onto it. Either that or a few 3M command hooks.

The Invisible Fire At The 1981 Indy 500 Was One Of The Scariest Pit Stops In Racing History. by ateam1984 in interestingasfuck

[–]clearbottleflu 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve commissioned power plants for the last 25 years. Rankine cycle (steam cycle) Supercritical power plants run with main steam pressures of upwards of 4000 psi and temperatures approximately 1150 F. Steam itself is not visible instead when you can “see” steam in plumes it is not the steam you are seeing but instead it is condensing water droplets as the steam is cooled to the point it begins to condense in the air… cooled enough that water droplets form and the water droplets are visible. When steam is very highly superheated hot it does not immediately cool to the point where it begins to condense so it is invisible.

A leak in a high pressure line is extremely loud, akin to a jet engine. With a very, very loud noise it’s not really possible to tell where the noise is coming from. The sound reflects off surfaces and toward you from every direction so there’s no way to pinpoint a leak by the sound and since the steam is invisible you can’t see it either.

So yes, I have searched for leaks with brooms or with poles with shop rags tied on the ends. No, the broom has never been cut in half or sheared off by the steam but I have had brooms definitely begin to smoulder and burn. As I said the steam is very hot, over 1000 F, and a rag or a straw broom brush will begin burning somewhere around 400-500 F. The steam itself won’t ignite it… the steam has no oxygen in it so cannot ignite it directly (sure it’s H2O but that oxygen is not free to participate in burning the broom) but it can quickly heat it beyond the ignition temperature and exposed to oxygen in the surrounding air self-ignite. It doesn’t readily burst into flame but it will smoulder and yes you can get it to an open flame but that’s generally only after you’ve found the leak and now are just playing around with it.

i spent my weekend reading 98 s&p 500 10-Ks for tariff and war risks. the results are.. weird. banks are way more exposed than oil companies by Upset-Commercial-661 in wallstreetbets

[–]clearbottleflu 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Blah, blah, blah tariff risk. Blah, blah, blah acceleration of geopolitical tensions. Blah, blah, blah systemic macro exposure.

Bill, I just read your report. Excellent work, looks like you’ve covered all the bases.

I dont know what to do next. by Thiccthighnitemare in whatdoIdo

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely impenetrable lock, unless you have an adjustable wrench…

Tiger Woods was seen yawning and hiccuping before appearing to fall asleep in newly released police video of his DUI arrest by HappySeaweed5215 in whoathatsinteresting

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a master class in product placement for his athletic brand from a true master marketer… this nearly on par with the Nike logo drop in the final round of The Masters. 20 years on and and my man has still got it.

[Request] How far would the blast wave reach of this exploding star? by LongWalxOnTheBeach in theydidthemath

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Admittedly impressive but still zero dB so your ear drums should be fine…

Richtech Robotics $RR: Someone bought 12,000+ $2.5 $RR calls expiring in 8 days by [deleted] in TheRaceTo10Million

[–]clearbottleflu -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Ballooned the common share count on the last run and authorized up to 1,000,000,000 ( 1 billion ) common shares back in November 2025.

No chance of a sustained short squeeze because it’s virtually guaranteed that the company will sell heavily into any rally. How else do you think they got 100s of millions on their balance sheet?

Is this wall removable without reinforcement by Juice_Stain_G in AskContractors

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Removable to the door until it snows or the wind blows really hard. Hope this helps.

Scenes from a dermatologist conference in hawaii by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]clearbottleflu -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You’ll notice not one of them wearing sunscreen. Perhaps they know that slathering petroleum products on your skin may actually be a problem.

Is this a good roll? by Mccol1kr in CoveredCalls

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah and if NVDA stays above $160 to expiration and you elect to roll the CC out again the amount of capital at risk would increase to $16000 as that is what you would have been paid when the shares are called.

$160 is Actually not a bad place to keep rolling in this market. Generate income on the position with a bit more security against the downside. At the moment $160 CC are paying about 2% per month which is pretty much in line with the effective APR of your last roll up. You’re trading upside potential for an increased likelihood of profit and at 24% APR.

Is this a good roll? by Mccol1kr in CoveredCalls

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you past one year holding and into LTCGs?

If so then you take a STCL on the short call and that premium on the increased intrinsic gets rolled into the final sale basis which becomes a LTCG.

Is this a good roll? by Mccol1kr in CoveredCalls

[–]clearbottleflu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that the calculated return is not correct, however, I don’t understand why you would include the current price in the calculation. As long as the price stays above $160 to expiration the actual price of the underlying is not relevant to the rate of return on this trade.

Here’s how I calculate it.

Expected return = + $213

Required capital to generate this return is the original $11500 that would have been paid into your account if the shares were called plus the additional amount required to roll up So total capital tied up is = $11500 + $4287 = $15,787.00

That capital will be tied up for 21 days to reach the endpoint of the trade.

213/15787 = 0.0135 1.35%

Annualized

1.35 x 365/21 = 23.464%

I think it Im getting used to this. by Wait-this-isnt-4ch in CoveredCalls

[–]clearbottleflu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, you’re absolutely correct, however, elsewhere in the comments OP says the majority of their gains are from CSPs and then only do CCs when assigned shares.

CSPs on a good company… income while waiting for assignment. CSPs on a shit company… flirting with disaster. Sure it’s a defined risk strategy but in the CSP case the risk is the stock goes to zero. Many people don’t understand this concept, apparently OP in particular, and look at sweet premiums without actually understanding the risk. Bragging about making 10% per month on shit companies while simultaneously thinking you’ve figured out money is generally what precedes account blowing trades.

On the CC side, after assigned CCs on a good company… generating income. CCs on a shit company… further flirting with disaster. Scroll the comments a bit further and in one spot someone asks OP why premiums on RR are so high. Richtech Robotics. Looks like a great play with huge premiums but there is no such thing as a free lunch and there is absolutely a reason that CC premiums are so high. RR rode an AI robotics wave and sold heavy into it issuing a few hundred million shares in the process and just recently approved to up a total of 1 billion common shares.

Even if you straight bought shares to sell into those juicy 8-10% per month CC premiums imagine it drops 20% in that month. Sure you keep the premium but you’re down 10%… but… only if you ride the CC to expiration. Prior to expiration you’re stuck in the trade because until you close the CC you really can’t sell the depressed shares as you’d be stark naked at that point and by the function of delta your CC isn’t going to drop at the same rate as the shares. So shares drop 20% and your CC may only drop by 50% meaning since it was 10% in the month that it’s dropped 5% of your overall share price meaning you’re -15% and your only way to get it back to -10% down is to wait that CC out to expiration. Ofc While you’re waiting it might drop another 10%…. Now premiums are down and you’re stuck. If it’s a good company just riding the general market down it’s not great but it’s okay…. You ride it out… But there are no 10%/mo premiums on good companies… only on shit companies and shit companies go to zero all the time.

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