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.
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Trade Alert - (SPY)- TAKE PROFITS
SELL the S&P 500 SPDR?s (SPY) May, 2016 $209-$214 in-the-money vertical bear put spread at $4.98 or best
Closing Trade
5-18-2016
expiration date: May 20, 2016
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 23 contracts
WE CAUGHT A WHOPPER TODAY, taking in a 14.48% profit in a mere? seven trading days.
If you have 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) keep it.
We are going lower.
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:
SELL 23 May, 2016 (SPY) $214 puts at????.?.??$9.50
BUY TO COVER short 23 May, 2016 (SPY) $209 puts a.?..$4.52
Net PROCEEDS:???????????????......$4.98
Profit: $4.98 - $4.35 = $0.63
(23 X 100 X $0.63) = $1,449 or 14.48% profit in 7 trading days.
