Trade Alert - (GLD) April 3, 2025

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Trade Alert - (GLD) – BUY

BUY the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) April 2025 $270-$273 vertical BULL CALL debit spread at $2.50 or best

Opening Trade

4-3-2025

expiration date: April 3, 2025

Portfolio weighting: 10%

Number of Contracts = 40 contracts

Interest rates are in free fall, with the ten-year US Treasury bond yield plunging from 4.40% to 4.00% this week, a staggering move for the bond market. That is fantastic news for gold owners, who now face dramatically less interest rate competition from fixed income.

Gold has recently reaffirmed its status as a flight to safety asset class when safety is suddenly commanding a big premium. This is all happening against a backdrop of global trade wars, but also a rapidly deteriorating US Economy.

With a stock market crash unfolding, a premium is being paid for all flight-to-safety “risk off” assets.

It is all very gold-positive.

If you can’t do options, buy the stock. My long-term target for (GLD) is $500, up nearly double from today’s $262.

Therefore, I am buying the SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) April 2025 $270-$273 vertical BULL CALL debit spread at $2.50 or best.

Don’t pay more than $2.70 or you will be chasing.

DO NOT USE MARKET ORDERS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.

If you 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 $2.50, $2.55, $2.60, $2.65, and $2.70. You should get done on some or all of these.

The bull case for gold is simple. Falling interest rates mean less yield competition for gold, which yields nothing. China and Russia have been stockpiling gold for years to avoid international financial sanctions. The only way the Chinese can save right now is to buy gold.

A global gold shortage is developing, with new mine costs rising. Gold also offers protection against rising US debt, which is expected to hit $35 trillion shortly.

On top of all this, Chinese speculators have shifted their principal savings vehicle from real estate, which has crashed and has no future, to gold. This adds a large retail element that has never existed before.

SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) is a play on physical gold. They are shares in a corporation that owns 400-ounce gold bullion bars held by a London trust. It is far safer owning gold through the (GLD) than owning physical gold bars via a third-party custodian. If the custodian goes under, which is frequent, your gold is gone. With (GLD), your credit risk is with State Street, a highly rated firm with a strong balance sheet.

For details about SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), please visit their website at https://www.spdrgoldshares.com.

This is a bet that the (GLD) will not fall below $273 by the April 17 option expiration in 10 trading days.

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

Buy 40 April 2025 (GLD) $270 calls at………….……..$17.00

Sell short 40 April 2025 (GLD) $273 calls at…………$14.50

Net Cost:………………………….………..………….…...........$2.50

Potential Profit: $3.00 - $2.50 = $0.50

(40 X 100 X $0.50) = $2,000 or 20.00% in 10 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.

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