Trade Alert - (AAPL) July 15, 2026

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Trade Alert - (AAPL) – BUY

BUY the Apple (AAPL) August 21, 2026 $295-$300 in-the-money vertical Bull Call spread at $4.10 or best

Opening Trade

7-15-2026

expiration date: August 21, 2026

Number of Contracts = 25 contracts

It’s clear that there is a major upside breakout underway in Apple shares, so I am going to double up my long position.

Apple has been kind to us, and it’s time for another visit to the trough. The company is planning to start charging fees for its AI services. With 2.5 billion customers worldwide, that can add up to quite a bit of money. The stock should blast to a new all-time high shortly.

You hear a lot of incredible stories in Silicon Valley.

An electronic compact disc is coming that can deliver perfect sound and movies. Have you heard of the Internet? Compaq is offering a computer that will sit on your lap! Do you have any idea how Google is going to make money? Steve Jobs is building a smartphone! Is he out of his mind? Elon Musk is building an electric car with a 250-mile range. Hey, I heard about this thing called “artificial intelligence.”

So I listened very carefully the other day when a friend of mine told me he had scored the real estate deal of the century.

His house had sat on the market like dead wood for a year and a half, priced at $4.0 million. It was a very nice 5,000 square foot Italian villa-type home with a huge garden and a fantastic 360-degree view.

Then out of the blue, a cash buyer said he wanted to rent the house for a year for the spectacular over-the-market rent of $20,000 a month, plus all utilities. Then, he offered to pay 10% over the asking price, or $4.4 million, to buy the house outright and would pay $400,000 in cash for the option to do so, payable immediately.

My friend, puzzled but ecstatic, asked why he was going about buying a home in this way. The buyer answered that he had some stock options from his company that he didn’t want to cash in for a year. His profession? He had a PhD in artificial intelligence.

That set the alarm bells off in my head.

I pulled out a paper map of the San Francisco Bay Area and drew a circle around the house within one hour driving time to reduce the number of potential candidates. Then I called a seasoned technical analyst and asked him which big California stock had a chart that was just about to break out to the upside. He didn’t hesitate.

Apple!

Well, I just heard from the buyer of my home. He is cancelling the purchase and walking away from $200,000 in option premium, which I get to keep. He’d rather hang on to his Apple options for another year. The word is that the company’s internal target for the share price is $450 a share.

I am therefore buying the Apple (AAPL) August 21, 2026 $295-$300 in-the-money vertical Bull Call spread at $4.10 or best.

Don’t pay more than $4.50, or you will be chasing.

DO NOT USE MARKET ORDERS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

If you don’t want to sit in front of a screen all day or live in a foreign time zone when the US stock market is closed, such as Australia, or don’t want to spend all day in front of a screen, simply enter a spread of Good-Until-Cancelled orders overnight, like $4.10, $4.20, $4.30, $4.40, and $4.50. You should get done on some or all of these.

This is a bet that Apple (APPL) will not fall below $300 by the August 21, 2026 option expiration in 27 trading days.

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Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:

Buy 25 August 21 2026 (AAPL) $295 calls at………….………$33.00

Sell short 25 August 21 2026 (AAPL) $300 calls at…………$28.90

Net Cost:………………………….………..…………….…..................$4.10

Potential Profit: $5.00 - $4.10 = $0.90

(25 X 100 X $0.90) = $2,250 or 21.95% in 27 trading days.

If you are uncertain about how to execute a bear put options spread, please watch my training video by clicking here.

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 on expiration months farther out.

Keep in mind that these are ballpark prices at best. After the alerts go out, prices can be all over the map.