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Trade Alert - (SPY)- BUY
Buy the S&P 500 SPDR?s (SPY) January, 2016 $182-$187 in-the-money vertical bull call spread at $4.61 or best
Opening Trade
1-7-2016
expiration date: January 15, 2016
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 22 contracts
You can pay all the way up to $4.75 for this spread and it still makes sense.
If you can?t do options stand aside, this is a pure volatility play.
Right here, the S&P 500 SPDR?s (SPY) December, 2015 $182-$187 in-the-money vertical bull call spread is a very low risk, high return trade, with a January 15 expiration, just 6 trading days away.
With an expiration that short, the time decay on this one is highly accelerated.
The Volatility Index (VIX) finally popped above $23.60 this morning, so we can now earn descent profits buying very deep in-the-money vertical bull call spreads.
To see how to enter this trade in your online platform, please look at the order ticket below, which I pulled off of optionshouse.
If you are uncertain on how to execute an options spread, please watch my training video on ?How to Execute a Bull Call Spread? by clicking here at https://www.madhedgefundtrader.com/ltt-executetradealerts/. You must me logged into your account to view the video.
The best execution can be had by placing your bid for the entire spread in the middle market and waiting for the market to come to you. The difference between the bid and the offer on these deep in-the-money spread trades can be enormous.
Don?t execute the legs individually or you will end up losing much of your profit. Spread pricing can be very volatile on expiration months farther out.
Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:
Buy 22 January, 2016 (SPY) $182 calls at????.?.??$14.30
Sell short 22 January, 2016 (SPY) $187 calls at.????..$9.69
Net Cost:???????????????????......$4.61
Potential Profit: $5.00 - $4.61 = $0.39
(22 X 100 X $0.39) = $858 or 0.86% profit for the notional $100,000 portfolio
