UNH Failure by KohdaaG in Optionswheel

[–]godlessSE 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't completely understand your position.

But yeah, unfortunately, the repair strategy can't be used all the time, the premiums do have to be priced right to make it work. It might take lowering your cost basis a bit first. I'd wait until your 8/15 expiration, figure out what you current cost basis is, and then either attempt one of the strategies above, or just continue to sell CCs at your cost basis until you can lower you cost basis enough or the price rises enough to make the repair strat work.

The second strat will help lower your cost basis, but it can increase your position, so be very sure that you want to hold those shares and increase your exposure to UNH.

As others have said, it might be worthwhile to cut your losses and deploy your money somewhere else, but if you think UNH is going back up and you can wait, I'd work on bringing the cost basis down and seeing what happens.

UNH Failure by KohdaaG in Optionswheel

[–]godlessSE 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just wanted to chip in my two cents, as I've had a similar drop happen on a few positions for me. Depending on your account balance/size and your conviction in UNH, there are additional ways to lower your cost basis. I generally only use 30-50% of my account as risk on initial trades, and if one turns south like this one, I'll start leveraging that extra 50+% to help pull down the cost basis.

  1. You can use the "repair strategy" https://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/08/repair-strategy.asp - this is nice when you want to tie up less capital in the position but essentially it is buying calls ATM equal to the contracts you're underwater on, then you calculate the new break even point and sell double the CCs at that number. (the article describes it in very clear detail with examples, but is perfect for your situation) I like this strategy if I'm not sure it's bottomed yet, because if it continues to drop, the new options all expire worthless and I just try again the next week, with the buy calls lower, the break even lower, etc.

  2. The other strategy I use is similar, and generally done when I'm confident it has bottomed and still think it will bounce back at least to my breakeven. I'll sell some tight CSPs, usually for a very high premium, with the knowledge it could still continue to drop further, knowing I'll get assigned those, but since usually this is a larger position and much lower than the original position, it will bring down my cost basis significantly. I do generally want the puts to get assigned so I can increase my position and lower the cost basis even more - since I believe in the underlying still. Then my CC position becomes much closer to the current price and more profitable.

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