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Trade Alert - (FXY)
Buy the Currency Shares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY) July, 17, 2015 $81-$83 in-the-money vertical bear put spread at $1.80 or best
Opening Trade
6-10-2015
expiration date: July 17, 2015
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 56 contracts
You can execute this spread anywhere in the $1.80-$1.90 range and have a good shot at making money in the five weeks to expiration over the slow summer period.
However, with a large number of contracts, commissions will be an issue for some of you. So its better to factor in all your costs before you pull the trigger.
Better yet, call you broker and ask for a lower commission rate to facilitate a larger number of trades. You will be amazed at how fast they will agree to this.
If for any reasons you can?t, are don?t want do the options, just buy the ProShares Ultra Short Yen ETF (YCS) outright. You?ll be taking on more risk, but over the longer term will make more money.
In depth research piece to follow.
The best execution for the options 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, and the liquidity in the options market isn?t that great these days. If you can?t get done at the $1.80 price, then keep raising you bid in 5 cent increments until you succeed.
Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:
Buy 56 July, 2015 (FXY) $83 puts at?????$4.00
Sell short 56 July, 2015 (FXY) $81 puts at..?.$2.20
Net Cost:??????????????????.....$1.80
Profit at expiration: $2.00 - $1.80 = $0.20
(56 X 100 X $0.20 ) = $1,120 or 1.12% profit for the notional $100,000 portfolio.
