JNJ debit spread 130/120 Put spread 2.53 debit Max profit is 7.47 exp September 20th. I have a pretty long debit spread on JNJ its a high reward low risk trade. I think it may continue lower slightly and hit my target which in this case will be $5 on the spread. If I lose and it rises and stays above 135 etc. I will close the trade on August 30th for a loss...
REIT stocks have been kinda weak on earnings with CCI moving lower. It's not that they're printing bad revenue gains or growth its just market sentiment is very fearful. KRC Aug 16 EXP 75/70 Put Spread. 0.79/4.21 Max Profit Low Risk, Medium Reward. I will close the trade August 5th if the play works out against me if there is much of a debit left.
AIG currently is trading with an IV30 of 19.6, making its IV Rank 21.8. This low rank indicates that the options will be cheap, and encourages debit spreads, regardless of being bullish or bearish. These spreads will profit when volatility mean-reverts to higher levels. Because of this well-developed bear flag, we are expecting a continuation of the prior...
With the July contracts, a 90/95 bull call spread can be placed for a debit of 3.97. This places our break-even at 93.97 on the July 20th expiry. The max profit of $102 per contract occurs above the upper strike of the sold call at 95. We are bullish on both the technicals and fundamentals of SMG. The multinational corporation, known for its consumer fertilizers...
This technically-driven call debit spread on Boeing entails buying a 355 call and selling the 370 call, both with standard july expiry. The cost of taking this position is a debit of 6.35, making the break even 361.33. This is slightly below the long term support levels, and the resistance of the upper boundary of the horizontal channel, which will become a...
After reaching a low of 11.10 today, the VIX closed at 11.57. Having been in a low Vol Environment for a while, I believe that this bounce off of the S2 Pivot Point intraday today, can be a potential low for the index. I have chosen a synthetic long position to play this out, over the next 60 days. More specifically, I sold the Nov 2018 14/12 put credit spread...
Trade details: 66/61 Put Vertical Credit Spread @ $1.82 Prob. of Max Profit = 4.90% Prob. of Max Loss = 29.12% Break-even @ $64.18 51 D.T.E. Trade plan: Straight up hedge against technology sector/semiconductor industry (NVDA + AMAT long put credit spread positions - both are linked below). Feb.'18 expiration chosen to focus on Feb.'18 earnings reports for...
Trade details: 57.5/50 Put Vertical Debit Spread @ $3.01 Prob. of Max Profit = 10.86% Prob. of Max Loss = 34.02% Break-even @ $54.49 50 D.T.E. Trade plan: Entry by overbought status + indication of correction/mean reversion analysis. Expecting pullback to moving average (VWMA) before earnings report in Feb.'18 for profit on weakening uptrend as seen in...
I don't like debit spreads, but sometimes they give a nice risk reward, SPY have a Implied volatility rank of 1.4 at the time of this trade. This is basically a 50/50 trade but we are risking less than the potential max profit. The trade: Buy 242 Put Sell 240 Put Paid 0.65 per contract I did 10 contracts so the max profit is $1,350 and my max loss is $650. ...
Directional play on IWM. With an implied volatility rank of below 10 I decided to buy some options (Yuck!) I am basically betting that the price will go down below $137 in the next 35 days enough for us to take some profits. The good thing about this trade is that we have basically a 50/50 chance to make money (48% probability), but we have a nice Reward Risk...
I don't do many of these, but since price is in my "sell area" and implied volatility isn't good for a credit spread, I'm doing a debit spread ... . Metrics: Probability of Profit: 55% Max Profit: $221/contract Max Loss/Buying Power Effect: $179/contract Break Evens: 208.21 Notes: I'll look to take this off at 50% max profit ... .
I don't frequently put on debit spreads, but here's an instrument in which I have a fairly firm directional bias and which, additionally, has extremely low implied volatility at this point in time, making it ideal for either a calendar or a diagonal, both of which benefit from expansions in volatility (which will occur in the instrument assuming further weakness...
Spy Weeklys In the Money,At the Money or Out of the Money? What strike price is the best to trade for max bang for the buck? First you have to get the direction right and assuming you did that next you have to decide which strike price is the best to play for max profit in a short time period. Attached is a chart that shows the SPY trades we followed over 2 weeks...
I virtually never short a VIX product. I am, after all, largely a premium seller and, as such, am already short volatility in the vast majority of my setups. So, by shorting a VIX product, I'd basically be "piling on" to what I already do. I also virtually never do debit spreads ... . However, with FOMC next week, I thought I would at least consider taking a...
Frankly, I don't use debit spreads very often, since they require a certain degree of directional certainty which I ordinarily do not have. Additionally, they are not high probability plays in the vast majority of cases. However, I have a certain degree of certainty that volatility will increase from here and, ironically, the volatility in volatility is quite...