{"id":78591,"date":"2025-12-05T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/?p=78591"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:37:05","slug":"david-prince-explains-how-to-box-an-options-trade-after-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/2025\/12\/05\/david-prince-explains-how-to-box-an-options-trade-after-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"David Prince Explains How to Box an Options Trade After-Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you took call options into an earnings report after hours and the stock is flying.<\/p>\n<p>The problem: you can't take profits until the market opens the next day because options can't be traded after hours.<\/p>\n<p>If the stock drops by the open, you miss out on that big gain.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a strategy you can use to lock in your win \u2013 boxing your options.<\/p>\n<p>To box calls after hours at a specific price, you short stock against your call options.<\/p>\n<p>This effectively locks in a profit at a specific price.<\/p>\n<p>Because if the stock drops by the open, you'll make a profit on the short position.<\/p>\n<p>And when the market opens you sell your calls and cover your short at the same time to take your pre-determined profit.<\/p>\n<p>David Prince broke down the strategy recently for a member of the <em>Inner Circle VTF\u00ae\u00a0<\/em>with a trade on\u00a0<strong>Rubrik\u00a0<\/strong>(RBRK), take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EjuNT_MOMPY?si=h3tz2UcwM9l4Xzaj\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David explains:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why you have to have enough capital to use this strategy<\/li>\n<li>The pros and cons of boxing an options trade after-hours<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Apply to work with David inside the Inner Circle VTF\u00ae <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/inner-circle-registration?utm_source=t3live.com-blog&utm_medium=blog-footer&utm_campaign=Inner+Circle+Registration+Page&utm_content=12+5+25&utm_term=David+Prince+Explains+How+to+Box+an+Options+Trade+After-Hours\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you took call options into an earnings report after hours and the stock is flying. The problem: you can&#8217;t take profits until the market opens the next day because options can&#8217;t be traded after hours. If the stock drops by the open, you miss out on that big gain. But there is a strategy you can use to lock in your win \u2013 boxing your options. To box calls after hours at a specific price, you short stock against your call options. This effectively locks in a profit at a specific price. Because if the stock drops by the open, you&#8217;ll make a profit on the short position. And when the market opens you sell your calls and cover your short at the same time to take your pre-determined profit. David Prince broke down the strategy recently for a member of the Inner Circle VTF\u00ae\u00a0with a trade on\u00a0Rubrik\u00a0(RBRK), take a listen: David explains: Why you have to have enough capital to use this strategy The pros and cons of boxing an options trade after-hours Apply to work with David inside the Inner Circle VTF\u00ae here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":78599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inner-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78598,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78591\/revisions\/78598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.t3live.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}