Trade Alert (SPY) - October 10, 2016

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Trade Alert - (SPY)- BUY

Buy the S&P 500 SPDR?s (SPY) October, 2016 $219-$222 in-the-money vertical bear put spread at $2.71 or best

Opening Trade

10-10-2016

Expiration Date: October 21, 2016

Portfolio Weighting: 10%

Number of Contracts = 41 contracts

You can pay all the way up to $2.80 for this spread and it still makes sense.

I am going to keep working both sides of this range in the S&P 500 until the cows come home or until the options expire, whichever comes first.

If you can?t do options, stand aside. This is a short-dated options expiration play only. However, medium term, I am bullish on US stocks.

To see how to enter this trade in your online platform, please look at the order ticket below, which I pulled off of optionshouse.

If you are uncertain about how to execute an options spread, please watch my training video:? How to Execute a Vertical Bear Put Debit Spread.

Keep in mind these are ballpark prices at best. After the text alerts go out, prices can be all over the map. There is no telling how much the market will have moved by the time you get this email.

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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 with only 9 days to expiration.

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

Buy 41 October, 2016 (SPY) $222 puts at????.?.??$5.70

Sell short 41 October, 2016 (SPY) $219 puts at.???.?..$2.99
Net Cost:????????????????????......$2.71

Potential Profit: $3.00 - $2.71 = $0.29

(41 X 100 X $0.29) = $1,189, or 10.70% profit in 9 trading days.

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