Can we sell 10-Delta weekly cash-secured puts and still generate significant annualized returns on a week where there is a market-recognized holiday reducing the number of days to expiration from 5 to 4? The answer is yes. This article will highlight 4 put sales I executed on the week of 12/20/2021 – 12/23/2021 where the market was closed on 12/24/2021 because Christmas Day fell on a Saturday.

 

What is the 10-Delta cash-secured put strategy?

This is an ultra-low risk put-selling strategy where we sell deep out-of-the-money puts with Deltas of 10 or less. Since share and put value are inversely related, Delta is signified as -10 or less. One of the definitions of Delta is the approximate probability of an option expiring in-the-money or with intrinsic-value. This means our trades have a near 90+% chance of success.

 

4 securities used on 12/20/2021 for 12/23/2021 expirations

• Vaneck Vectors Semiconductor ETF (Nasdaq: SMH)
• Invesco QQQ Trust (Nasdaq: QQQ)
• NVIDIA Corp. (Nasdaq: NVDA)
• Etsy, Inc. (Nasdaq: ETSY)

All options expired deep out-of-the-money.

 

Brokerage statement showing the 8 put contract sales

 

Final calculations after all contracts expired out-of-the-money

• Cash generated after commissions: $452.77
• Cash required to secure the put trades: $210,818.00 [(put strike – put premium) x 100 x #contracts]
• 4-day return: 0.214% ($452.77/$210,818.00)
• Annualized return: 11.2% (based on 52 weeks)

 

Advantages of using weekly options with the 10-Delta put strategy

• Greater annualized returns
• Avoid weekend risk
• Easy to avoid earnings reports

 

Disadvantages of using weekly options with the 10-Delta put strategy

• Smaller pool of underlyings to select from
• More frequent rolling decisions
• 4x the number and amount of trading commissions compared to monthly options (reduced commissions make this a minor factor)
• Less opportunities for management mitigation

 

***Both weekly and monthly options will work well with this strategy

 

Discussion

On a holiday week (4 trading days), we can still generate significant annualized returns using the ultra-low risk 10-Delta put-selling strategy. As always, we must be prepared with our exit strategy arsenal should the trade(s) turn against us or allow us to enhance our gains to even higher levels.

 

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