Rolled: ARKK December 17th 104C/106P to January 21st 100C/105P... short strangle for a 4.16 credit.
Comments: Late post. Rolled this on Friday with 14 days to go, improving the inversion by one strike on the put side, but widening it to sell the short call strike that was about half the delta of the short put. Total credits collected: 10.22.
This started out as a high probability of profit, delta neutral December 17th 106/135 short strangle (See Post Below), after which ARKK proceeded to implode, resulting in defensive short call rolls from the 135 to the 114 strike (See Post Below), and then the 114 to the 104 strike (See Post Below).
The end result is an inverted, 5-wide short strangle, with the short put above the short call and break evens on the down side of the short put strike minus total credits collected or 105.00 - 10.22 = 94.78 and on the call side of the short call strike (100.00) plus the total credits received of 10.22 or 110.22 and delta/theta of 29.71/13.08.
The underlying finished Friday's session at 93.53 relative to a downside break even of 94.78, so I'm not in horrible shape relative to if I had just sat there and watched in horror as the short call converged on worthless and the short put value exploded. Ideally, I get a bounce back to the mid point of the inversion (to around 102.50), but I'll continue to look to manage sides to keep the setup from getting too directional.
