Trade Alert - (TLT) September 10, 2012
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Trade Alert - (TLT)
Buy to cover the Sell Short position in the (TLT) October $132-137 call spread at $0.18 or best
Closing Trade
9-10-2012
expiration date: 10-19-2012
Portfolio weighting: 10% on a delta basis
($10,000/100/$0.18) = 50 Contracts
When the market hands me a gift, I?m inclined to take it. Since I sold short the (TLT) October $132-137 call spread three trading days ago, it has plunged from $0.58 to $0.18, a drop of 69%.
That means I can take the bulk of the profit on this trade without having to run it all the way out until the October 19 expiration. It also means I can dump all of my fixed income risk going into the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting on Wednesday.
If I am wrong, and the Fed acts decisively, the bonds could easily gap up five or more points. They could do this by announcing QE3, or a ramped up Treasury bond buying program designed to keep interest rates low. You don?t want to be short bonds in any way, shape, or form in such a scenario.
To execute this trade:
Buy to cover your short 50 October, 2012 (TLT) $132 calls at??$0.28
Sell 50 October, 2012 (TLT) $137 calls at?????????.?.$0.10
Net Cost:?????????????.?????..????....$0.18
Profit = $0.58 - $0.18 = $0.40
(50 X 100 X $0.40) = $2,000, or 2.00% for you notional $100,000 portfolio.
Enter this trade as a single day limit order for the entire spread, not the individual legs. If you don?t get done, work your limit up a penny at a time. Your options trading platform should allow this. That keeps you from paying a double spread.
Please note that this is the 20th consecutive profitable closing position for the Trade Alert Service.
