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(TSLA) - BUY
Buy the Tesla (TSLA) April 2023 $130-$140 in-the-money vertical bull call debit spread at $8.80 or best
Opening Trade
3-6-2023
expiration date: April 21, 2023
Portfolio weighting: double 20%
Number of Contracts = 25 contracts
I am going to continue with my short strangle strategy, betting that Tesla will not move appreciably for the next several months. This is the bull call leg of that strategy. You should have received the bear put leg hours ago.
Options this far in the money are illiquid so you may have to play around a bit with strike prices and prices.
Therefore, I am buying the Tesla (TSLA) April 2023 $130-$140 in-the-money vertical bull call debit spread at $8.80 or best.
Don’t pay more than $9.30 or you’ll be chasing.
DO NOT USE MARKET ORDERS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
Simply enter your limit order, wait five minutes, and if you don’t get done, cancel your order and increase your bid by 10 cents with a second order.
After markets have big moves like we saw in January, you tend to get no moves for a couple of months. Too much performance and market action was pulled forward in January.
With the highest implied volatility in the market at 78%, a short Tesla strangle is far and away the best way to play this. This is the first leg in that strangle. The long side also gets extra support from the 50-day moving average at $155.13.
We also have the autonomous driving recall of 360,000 Tesla vehicles here to trade against. A Volatility Index ($VIX) back up to $24, incited by today’s 500-point plunge in the Dow is further icing on the cake.
The selloff was prompted by rising fears of a debt default by the House of Representatives this summer which have taken interest rates dramatically higher. As a result, Tesla has had to raise interest rates on company-financed new sales from 2.0% to 5.0%.
Ford Motor’s (F) halt of its assembly line for the F-150 Lightning because of battery design problems is a further support for Tesla on the long side.
Tesla is now the most widely owned stock in the world and accounts for a staggering 6% of the options market.
If you don’t do options, buy the stock on a bigger dip. Even if the (SPY) revisits its 2022 low at $355, I doubt that Tesla falls much from here.
Call spreads this far in the money trade all over the map but give this your best shot.
An onslaught of new Tesla positives will hit the market in 2023. The new Cybertruck comes out and there is a two-year waiting list out the gate and deposits in hand for 1.5 million vehicles.
The company is generating such enormous cash flows that it is like to carry out $10 billion in share buybacks, especially with the Price this low. There are no real competitors on the horizon, except for a handful with minimal production at big losses outside of China.
All the new negatives are now in the price, the China lockdowns, the product recalls, the Shanghai shutdown, recession fears, and even Elon Musk himself going from a premium to a discount are now in the price. At the end of the day, Tesla really is a consumer discretionary stock.
Twitter will remain a distraction, but only so much of a distraction. A now $10 billion company can only drag down a former $365 billion company so much. Elon Musk has been chastised severely. Soon he will appoint a new Twitter CEO who knows the social media industry cold and the distraction will go away.
Tesla will remain the top EV maker for the next decade easily.
This is a bet that the Tesla (TSLA) will not trade below $140 by the April 21 options expiration day in 29 trading days.
Here are the specific trades you need to execute this position:
Buy 25 April 2023 (TSLA) $130 calls at…......…….…$67.00
Sell short 25 April 2023 (TSLA) $140 calls at…...….$58.20
Net Cost:………………………….……..................….………$8.80
Potential Profit: $10.00 - $8.80 = $1.20
(25 X 100 X $1.20) = $3,000, or 13.64% in 29 trading days.
If you are uncertain about how to execute an 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.
