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What we have done here is take the margin required to sell the option and added 2X that number for cash excess. Or simply 3X margin. That will give you 33% for margin and 67% for cash excess. For example if margin is $500 then you would have 500 margin and 1000 cash excess per contract.
One other way that I calculate ROI%, but I haven't shown in this thread, is to use the average margin for the option by taking beginning margin and exit margin and averaging the two. This shows a more precise ROI% if you are using the freed up margin and premium to add additional options while you still have on this position.
On that note 150 calls have a pretty nice premium. The seasonals support selling, and supply side is heavy. The only X factor is the geopolitical situation. Thoughts?
That is a HUGE "X" factor in my opinion. If US launches cruise missile, who knows what is next? Gas attack on Israel? Iran getting involved? It could be really, really ugly.
As an alternative, what about selling Nov Puts? You can sell 86 P, delta of .01, and get around 5% ROI. It is against seasonals, though...
The only tricky thing is picking the top. But if they release SPR oil then it crashes immediately and you missed out.
This is the toughest decision to make when selling options.
I have a delta of 0.025 based on the last trade of 0.15 (Nov 150) but the ask is now 0.11. But those prices are far higher than what it should be. I'm getting 0.06.
One thing to think about for something like this is doing a covered call for protection. 150-170. But good luck getting a seller at a reasonable price for Nov 170.
A Dec 150-170 has more volume. Maybe right now you could get 150c at 0.13 and 170s at 0.07. SPAN margin is 144 and yesterday's settlement was $50. OX is 20% more than SPAN for CL. For OX the monthly ROI% is 2.9.
FYI The Nov contract for a lot of commodities have much lower VOL & OI than Dec. Dec always has the highest VOL & OI for futures and options.
Just like clock work yesterday, if CL futures go up then CL put OI increases more than CL call OI. If futures go down then call OI increases more than put OI.
This proves my theory that a lot of the option buying is protection for future purchases.
