$210 profit in MCD & PG
- themoneyloaf
- Jul 24
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 26
Happy Sunday!
A quiet week for the portfolio, so let's jump straight to the trade updates.
This week:
$145 profit in McDonald's (MCD)
$65 profit in Procter & Gamble (PG)
$145 profit in MCD
Towards the end of June, MCD had a period of consecutive down days which set up a nice trade which was a bit on the opportunistic side.
I sold the $270 cash-secured put expiring Aug 1 for $205 in premium up front.
This opportunistic trade paid off and I paid $60 to close the trade just 4 trading days later.
This means I realized a trade profit of $145, or 71% of max profit.
The key point in this particular trade was that strictly speaking, the movement in MCD wouldn't have met my usual trade entry requirements as I prefer to enter on a strong single day move down, as opposed to a more gradual decline over a few days.
However sometimes the market sends some opportunities that can be worth the risk, and I do take them as long as I'm ok with the overall risk.
Of course in my trade update I did spell all this out for my private community, so that they can determine for themselves if it fits their risk profile.
As always all the trades within this portfolio are updated in close to real-time to my private community, and you can find out more about my private community at the link below.
$65 profit in PG
Moving into July, it's not been a secret that it's been harder to find trades thanks to volatility being low. So I was looking for a chance to allocate some capital in a trade that felt relatively "safe", so that I can deploy some capital without being too aggressive.
With that in mind, I chose to sell the $150 cash-secured put expiring Jul 18 in PG for $95 in premium up front.
Compared to many of the trades in the last few months, $95 is a really small premium, which shows how much option prices have decreased as volatility has shrunk.
Thankfully, similar to the MCD trade above, this PG trade did work out and I left it to run a little bit, paying just $30 to close the trade 10 trading days later.
This brought in a realized profit of $65, or 68% of max profit.
PG has been on my 'hit list' for the year, and I've opened 11 different positions in the stock in 2025.
8 of them have been closed for an overall realized profit of $1,066, with 3 trades still open.
I'm hoping to be assigned on one of them and this $1,066 realized profit will go towards lowering my cost basis in the stock
You can read more about previous PG trades at the link below.
Closing thoughts & useful links
Unfortunately the couple of companies on my watchlist this week didn't provide any good opportunities to allocate some capital.
At the same time the entire market continues to inch higher, which is generally not the best time to take on too many positions.
Hoping for more movement next week!
Have a good weekend!
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