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 - (SPY)- BUY AND DOUBLE UP
Buy the S&P 500 SPDR?s (SPY) February, 2016 $195-$200 in-the-money vertical bear put spread at $3.96 or best
Opening Trade
1-20-2016
expiration date: February 19, 2016
Portfolio weighting: INCREASE FROM 10% TO 20%
Number of Contracts = 25 contracts
You can pay all the way up to $4.25 for this spread and it still makes sense. If you can't do options stand aside.
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 Vertical Bear Put Debit 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 25 February, 2016 (SPY) $200 puts at????.?.??$13.00
Sell short 25 February, 2016 (SPY) $195 puts at.????..$9.04
Net Cost:???????????????????......$3.96
Potential Profit: $5.00 - $3.96 = $1.04
(25 X 100 X $1.04) = $2,600 or 2.60% profit for the notional $100,000 portfolio
