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Trade Alert - (TLT) – BUY
BUY the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) December, 2018 $121-$124 in-the-money vertical BEAR PUT spread at $2.60 or best
Opening Trade
12-4-2018
expiration date: December 21, 2018
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 38 contracts
There is an out and out short covering panic in the bond market today as recession fears loom. The Ten-year US Treasury bond yield has plunged 10 points in one day, taking it down to a six-month low at 2.89%. Yields are inverting everywhere.
The Buenos Aires G-20 summit is now viewed by the market as a complete failure, with the Dow Average down a stunning 750 points. Singlehandedly, Donald Trump is bringing forward the next recession at a very rapid pace. Investors are clearly far more worried about a recession than inflation.
In order words, this is the best day to SELL bond of 2018.
Therefore, I am buying the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) December, 2018 $121-$124 in-the-money vertical BEAR PUT spread at $2.60 or best.
This is a bet that the (TLT) will not rise above $121 by the December 21 option expiration in 16 trading days.
The expiration date for this spread is particularly convenient in that we should reach the maximum profit point well before the December 19 Fed meeting when they are expected to raise interest rates by another 25 basis points.
The fundamental reasons for this trade are growing by the day
1) Bond auctions are getting increasingly difficult to pull off. It’s just a matter of time before we get a failed auction that completely crashes the bond market. The government has to issue a staggering $1.4 trillion in bonds next year to cover massive deficit spending.
2) The Fed has already started dropping on the bond market in $6 billion a month, or $200 million a day, worth of paper in its QE unwind.
3) Tax cuts are providing further stimulus for the US economy, so is the NAFTA renewal. The economic data is running red hot.
4) We also now have evidence that China has started to dump its massive $1 trillion in US Treasury bond holdings, or at least boycotting new auctions.
All are HUGELY bond negative.
That should take bonds down to new 2018 lows. What we could be seeing here is the setting up for the perfect head and shoulders top of the (TLT) for 2018.
Don't pay more than $2.70 or you'll be chasing.
If you can't do options stand aside.
Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:
Buy 38 December, 2018 (TLT) $124 puts at………….………$6.60
Sell short 38 December, 2018 (TLT) $121 puts at……$4.00
Net Cost:………………………….………..………….….....$2.60
Potential Profit: $3.00 - $2.60 = $0.40
(38 X 100 X $0.40) = $1,520 or 15.38% in 16 trading days.
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