Doubling up on Oil, betting on VIX dropping

Did covered calls on Oil — bought USO at 37.19, sold-to-open May 37 calls at 1.02 for a net investment of 36.18. Created a bear spread on VIX options today.   Betting on VIX going down is forecasting that the market in general will be flat or positive.  I sold-to-open June VIX 16 calls at 10.26, bought  June  VIX 32.5 calls at 1.88 for a …

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Playing for a bounce in oil

I closed out the option portion of my covered call on USO, buying back the 41 May call options at .30 (sold them at 1.33).    It’s tempting to sell 39 calls now, they are at around .8 right now, but I’m pretty bullish on USO bouncing back.