As a potentially profitable opportunity presents itself, John will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what should be bought, when to buy it, and at what price.
Trade Alert-(PHM)
Sell the Pulte Group, Inc July, 2012 $7 puts at $0.41 or best
Closing Trade
5-21-2012
expiration date: 7-20-2012
Portfolio weighting: 5% = 98 Contracts
I expect a fairly energetic bounce off the 200 day moving average in the S&P 500, which we hit last night in Asian trade, triggering a wave of profit taking for all ?RISK OFF? positions. We have covered a lot of real estate on the downside in a very short time.
The markets are now nearly the most oversold in history. Asymmetric risks are now to the upside. That means that the next marginal piece of bad news can only push stocks down a little, but the next piece of good news will drive it up a lot.
Accelerated time decay is also kicking in for the July options, and I want to retrieve what premium I still can. So I am going to step out here and move to the sidelines, looking for better entry points down the road.
The loss on this trade amounts to ($0.51 - $0.41 = $0.10). This subtracted (100 X 96 X $0.10) = $960, or 0.96% from the value of your notional $100,000 model portfolio. It seems like every technical analyst in the world love this stock, so I am going to stay away.
