AAPL - First red candle in a while, time to take a breather

12 may 2020

AAPL has been moving up almost daily, driving the SP500 up over the past few weeks.

Today, SP500 also looking over-extended. AAPL, also very over-extended to the UP side.
The FANG stocks also had a red day today on good volume.

High volume today on a very RED day, I think we see more traders taking profits here and possibly move lower.

My play is using a bear call spread, where I sell a call spread to take advantage of time decay on the call options that I sold.
This works well, because AAPL must make a move higher than 315 for me to lose on this trade.

Even if AAPL goes higher by almost $3 from here, I can still make a profit on my short trade.

Thanks for checking out my 1st idea!

13 may 2020

Nota

Update 5/13: AAPL moved down nicely as expected. Our trade is now +$1,040.

The spread I sold for $1.44, I can now buy back for only .40 cents, giving me a $1.04 profit per contract. But, I did not close out trade today.

Tomorrow Plan: close out the trade, buy back spread for .20 cents.

AAPL would have to move OVER 315 for my trade to become a loser. its currently it's at 307.65. AAPL would need to move up $7.36. Based on that, I feel confident holding this until tomorrow will be the best move. In addition, time decay is on my side, since I sold the spread, so even if AAPL moves up, I can still close out the trade for .40 cents or so.

14 may 2020

Operación cerrada manualmente

AAPL fell nicely today and triggered out target.

I bought back the 320/315 spread for only .10 cents, profit of $1.34 or $1,340.

Trade closed