Trade Alert - (FB) January 24, 2018
When John identifies a strategic exit point, he will send you an alert with specific trade information as to what security to sell, when to sell it, and at what price. Most often, it will be to TAKE PROFITS, but, on rare occasions, it will be to exercise a STOP LOSS at a predetermined price to adhere to strict risk management discipline.
Trade Alert - (FB) TAKE PROFITS
SELL the Facebook (FB) February, 2018 $160-$165 in-the-money vertical bull call spread at $4.85 or best
Closing Trade
1-24-2018
expiration date: February 16, 2018
Portfolio weighting: 10%
Number of Contracts = 24 contracts
I don't need to be told twice to take the monster 18.25% trading profit in Facebook (FB) we have racked up in the past five trading days.
During this bat of an eyelash, we caught a robust $12.61 move in the share price.
This was a bet that Facebook (FB) would not trade below $165.00 by theFebruary 16 options expiration in 22 trading days.
This may seem to you an excessively conservative approach to take. However, we are in a vastly over extended markets with a notoriously volatile name.
We have been presented with a rare gift in the form of a buyable dip in (FB), the first among the FANG's, triggered by the company's announcement that it was changing its advertising model. This turned out to be nothing more than a storm in a teacup.
So I am selling my position in the Facebook (FB) February, 2018 $160-$165 in-the-money vertical bull call debit spread at $4.85 or best.
Facebook announced it would overhaul how it ranks the posts, videos, and photos that appear in its users' News Feeds, introducing major changes designed to put what friends and family have to say first.
It is doing this clearly to prevent the "siloing" of readers' news flow that led to the widespread distribution of hyper aggressive marketing, false content, as well as outright garbage.
The options under the News Feed tab on Facebook will allow users to prioritize the pages (and friends) whose posts they are most interested in.
Without that kind of explicit direction, though, Facebook's top priority will remain posts from your friends and family.
Sellers who dumped the stock believed the new policy will hurt the company's future ad revenues. I think it will do the opposite, allowing (FB) to charge higher ad rates for a better quality service. It turned out that I was right.
Remember, we still have (FB)'s Q4 2017 earnings report to deal with on January 31, 2018, which are probably going to be great, and based on the old ad model. Still, by taking profits here we get to dump the risk.
If you didn't do options and bought the stock outright keep it. I'm expecting at least another 15% of upside from here.
Here are the specific trades you need to exit this position:
Sell 24 February, 2018 (FB) $160 calls at...................................................$30.50
Buy to cover short 24 February, 2018 (FB) $165 calls at...................................$25.65
Net Proceeds:..........................................................................................................$4.85
Profit: $4.85 - $4.10 = $0.75
(24 X 100 X $0.75) = $1,800 or 18.29% profit in 5 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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