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Further Update to: Trade Alert -(AAPL)
Buy the Apple (AAPL) July, 2014 $540-$570 in-the-money bull call spread at $26.20 or best
Opening Trade
5-20-2014
expiration date: July 18, 2014
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 4 contracts
The fact that the stock has refused to back off after the earnings blowout upside gap is extremely positive. After two years of apathy, many institutional investors now find themselves underweight the stock.
This is all happening into the iPhone 6 release in September?.or sooner. The company could shock us all and announce as early as June. For many years now, the best trading strategy has been to own the stock into the big product releases, and sell it on the announcement. The Impending 7:1 share split should also provide another boost for the shares.
Apple is easily the most compelling value play in the market today. Its cash mountain is now an unbelievable $170 billion, and it just borrowed $17 billion against the offshore portion, almost interest free. However, this is definitely not a case where you buy the stock instead of the July, 2014 $540-$570 in-the-money bull call spread.
If the shares move sideways for another month, you make money. With the stock you don?t. Buying stock outright is something you should have done last summer, when (AAPL) was at a lowly $385 a share. It is now 57% higher.
There may not be enough money in the world to push the shares of the world?s largest company up substantially higher from here, which at yesterday?s close had an eye popping market capitalization of $521 billion.
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. Keep in mind that these are ballpark prices only. Spread pricing can be very volatile on expiration months farther out.
If the price of this spread has moved more than 5% by the time you receive this Trade Alert, don?t chase it. Wait for the next one. There are plenty of fish in the sea.
Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:
Buy 4 July, 2014 (AAPL) $540 calls at?????$66.80
Sell short 4 July, 2014 (AAPL) $570 calls at..??.$40.60
Net Cost:??????????????????.....$26.20
Potential Profit: $30.00 - $26.20 = $3.20
(4 X 100 X $3.20) = $1,580 or 1.58% profit for the notional $100,000 portfolio.
