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Trade Alert - (SPY) - EXPIRATION
Expiration of the S&P 500 SPDR?s (SPY) February, 2015 $199-$202 in-the-money vertical bull call spread at $3.00
Closing Trade
2-23-2015
expiration date: February 20, 2015
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 40 contracts
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My bet that the S&P 500 (SPY) Index would go up, sideways, or down small from this month proved dead on correct.
As a result, the S&P 500 SPDR?s (SPY) February, 2015 $199-$202 in-the-money vertical bull call spread expired at $3.00, its maximum possible expiration value.
This trade shows perfectly the value of the call spread strategy. We made a quick 19% on the position in only 7 trading days, while risking only 10% of our capital. That works out to 1.96% added to our notional $100,000 model trading portfolio.
We got an assist from one of the most ferocious stock market rallies in history. Despite all of the violence in the markets, the volatility of our vertical call spread plunged.
It also helped that ten year Treasury bond yields rocketed from 1.62% to 2.15%, which is always beneficial for financial shares, which have a heavy index weighting.
You don?t have to do anything to close out this position, as it is all done automatically these days. Your short position is automatically cancelled out by your long.
Your broker should credit the full profit for this position in you account this morning, and release the margin requirement. If they don?t, you should get on the phone immediately. Mistakes happen.
The next thing to do is to pat yourself on the back for a trade well done, and then figure out how to spend the money.
On to the next trade.
Here is the profit and loss calculation that applies to this transaction:
long 40 February, 2015 (SPY) $199 calls at?????$12.24
short short 40 February, 2015 (SPY) $202 calls at..?$9.24
Net Cost:??????????????????.....$3.00
Profit: $3.00 - $2.51 = $0.49
(40 X 100 X $0.49) = $1,960 or 1.96% profit for the notional $100,000 portfolio.
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