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Trade Alert - (TLT) - BUY
BUY the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) April 2019 $128-$130 in-the-money vertical BEAR PUT spread at $1.78 or up to $1.90
Opening Trade
3-25-2019
expiration date: April 18, 2019
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 56 contracts
Call me a hopeless addict, but I see another opportunity to make money to sell short the US Treasury bond market here.
We have just seen a massive five-point spike up in bond prices and the market needs to take a rest, even if the long term trend is now still up. The release of the Mueller Report will also have a calming effect on markets and damp down volatility. I’m hoping it will put them to sleep.
Specifically, I am buying the iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT) April 2019 $128-$130 in-the-money vertical BEAR PUT spread at $1.78 or best.
If you can’t get done at $1.78, cancel your order and then raise your bid 2 cents at a time until you get done.
Don’t pay more than $1.90 for this position or the risk/reward will tip against you.
This is a bet that the (TLT) will not rise above $128.00 by the April 18 expiration day in 14 trading days. That would require ten-year US Treasury bonds to fall below 2.30%, a three-year low, versus the current 2.46%. That is highly unlikely, given all the stimulus that is out there in the economy.
The fundamental reasons for this trade are growing by the day.
1) Resolution of the China trade war will provide a short burst of economic growth, even if it doesn’t happen soon. The Mueller Report will increase the chances this gets done sooner than later.
2) The Fed is dropping on the bond market $50 billion a month, or $1.70 billion a day worth of paper in its QE unwind until September.
3) Massive Tax cuts for corporations are still providing further stimulus for the US economy.
4) With the foreign exchange markets now laser-focused on America’s exploding deficits and fading interest rate picture, a weak US dollar has triggered a capital flight out of the US.
5) We also now have evidence that China has started to dump its massive $1 trillion in US Treasury bond holdings.
All are HUGELY bond negative.
If you don’t do options, this would be a great level to scale into a long in the ProShares UltraShort 20+ Treasury Bond Fund (TBT), a bet that bonds will fall.
Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:
Buy 56 April 2019 (TLT) $130 puts at………….………$5.50
Sell short 56 April 2019 (TLT) $128 puts at………….$3.72
Net Cost:………………………….…………..………….….....$1.78
Potential Profit: $2.00 - $1.78 = $0.22
(56 X 100 X $0.22) = $1,232 or 12.36% in 14 trading days.
To see how to enter this trade in your online platform, please look at the order ticket above, which I pulled off of Interactive Brokers.
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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 close to expiration.
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