With 1.5 hours of trading left on expiration Friday, our Tesla butterfly trade has worked exactly as well as it could have, with the shares hovering right at our short strike.
At this point, rather than risk what I've made in order to capture the last few crumbs of time decay, I'm going to (mostly) close the trade.
I'm going to buy back 2 360 calls for $1.50 each and sell 100 shares of stock at $360.50.
This eliminates all risk on the trade, as I will no longer be short any options.
The total profit on the trade at this point will be $23.90 per spread, not bad for something that onlly cost $3.60 a week and a half ago.
Plus, just in case something really crazy happens and the stock goes lower than $330 or higher than $390 before the markets close, I will still be able to buy or sell 100 shares, respectively, and add a bit to my profits.
Happy Friday!
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With 1.5 hours of trading left on expiration Friday, our Tesla butterfly trade has worked exactly as well as it could have, with the shares hovering right at our short strike.
At this point, rather than risk what I've made in order to capture the last few crumbs of time decay, I'm going to (mostly) close the trade.
I'm going to buy back 2 360 calls for $1.50 each and sell 100 shares of stock at $360.50.
This eliminates all risk on the trade, as I will no longer be short any options.
The total profit on the trade at this point will be $23.90 per spread, not bad for something that onlly cost $3.60 a week and a half ago.
Plus, just in case something really crazy happens and the stock goes lower than $330 or higher than $390 before the markets close, I will still be able to buy or sell 100 shares, respectively, and add a bit to my profits.
Happy Friday!
Zacks Names "Single Best Pick to Double"
From thousands of stocks, 5 Zacks experts each have chosen their favorite to skyrocket +100% or more in months to come. From those 5, Director of Research Sheraz Mian hand-picks one to have the most explosive upside of all.
It’s a little-known chemical company that’s up 65% over last year, yet still dirt cheap. With unrelenting demand, soaring 2022 earnings estimates, and $1.5 billion for repurchasing shares, retail investors could jump in at any time.
This company could rival or surpass other recent Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Boston Beer Company which shot up +143.0% in little more than 9 months and NVIDIA which boomed +175.9% in one year.
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