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
Buy the S&P 500 SPDR?s (SPY) August, 2016 $221-$224 in-the-money vertical bear put spread at $2.52 or best
?Opening Trade
7-18-2016
expiration date: August 19, 2016
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 38 contracts
You can pay all the way up to $2.65 for this spread and it still makes sense.
If you can?t do the options, buy the ProShares Short S&P 500 Short Fund ETF (SH) (click here for the prospectus at http://www.proshares.com/funds/sh.html), or the ProShares Ultra Short S&P 500 Short Fund 2X ETF (SDS) (click here for the prospectus at http://www.proshares.com/funds/sds.html).
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 with only 9 days to expiration.
Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:
Buy 38 August, 2016 (SPY) $224 puts at????.?.??$7.90
Sell short 38 August, 2016 (SPY) $221 puts at.???.?..$5.38
Net Cost:???????????????????......$2.52
Potential Profit: $3.00 - $2.52 = $0.48
(38 X 100 X $0.48) = $1,824 or 19.04% profit in 19 trading days.
