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Trade Alert - (BAC) –BUY
BUY the Bank of America (BAC) August 2020 $24-$25 in-the-money vertical Bull Call spread at $0.90 or best
Opening Trade
8-12-2020
expiration date: August 21, 2020
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 111 contracts
This cycle of Covid-19 infections is imminently going to peak out and start declining, at least for the short term.
As a result, I believe the core long FANG trade is long overdue for a break. Instead, I think we are about to witness a major rotation into domestic economic “recovery” stocks. Stocks will keep going up, but the leadership will change. Bonds and gold are also due for profit-taking.
With the August 21 option expiration only 7 days off, there are a handful of option plays that make all the sense in the world, offering very high return, low-risk returns.
There is no better domestic recovery play than the big banks. During a recovery, they will benefit from steeply rising interest rates, fewer defaults, yet continued government subsidies.
I am therefore buying the Bank of America (BAC) August 2020 $24-$25 in-the-money vertical Bull Call spread at $0.90 or best.
Don’t pay more than $0.95 or you will be chasing.
Stock players should go ahead and buy the shares, which probably have a double in them over the next three years.
DO NOT USE MARKET ORDERS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Simply enter your limit order, wait five minutes, and if you don’t get done cancel your order and increase your bid by 2 cents with a second order.
This is a bet that Bank of America (BAC) will not trade below $25 by the August 21 option expiration day in 7 trading days, which is looking like a pretty sure thing right now.
Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:
Buy 111 August 2020 (BAC) $24 calls at………..….………$2.70
Sell short 111 August 2020 (BAC) $25 calls at……….…..$1.80
Net Cost:……………………..…......….………..………….….....$0.90
Potential Profit: $1.00 - $0.90 = $0.10
(111 X 100 X $0.10) = $1,110, or 11.11% in 7 trading days.
To see how to enter this trade in your online platform, please look at the order ticket above, which I pulled off of Interactive Brokers.
If you are uncertain on how to execute an options spread, please watch my training video by clicking here.
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.
Keep in mind that these are ballpark prices at best. After the alerts go out, prices can be all over the map.
