A lot of mail we get from people interested in our service had the question: “Are option trades as easy to follow as stock trades?“
I think the quick answer to that is yes for straight options and no for spreads but like many things that are worth doing, they are worth learning. I’m going to start a new teaching series here so we can analyze some trades after the fact as practice may make perfect but it also pays to go over our winners as well as our mistakes as finding out where we went right is as important as finding out where we went wrong. Trading has, of late, become much less about the merits of the particular stock and more about the timing of your entries as good stocks and bad stocks can move up anddown 5% on any given day.
One of the things we like to do is watch for overbought sectors to short. We had been taking pot-shots at POT all week as it was really running away with itself and on Thursday I discussed with members how the whole sector was getting overbought and, in Friday morning’s post I said: “I advocate more shorts into the open if they insist on this ridiculous pre-market pump (down just .25% at 9 am), especially in the over-hyped Agriculture industry, which could not be up for stupider reasons,” which neatly summarized my outlook on the sector.
We got exactly the pump action we wanted in the morning and I sent out a 10:34 Alert to Members, sensing that we were topping out on the run in the indexes and I recommended the following plays:
Big disconnect with DBA and AGU, MOS and POT now. It’s a little crazy to do a day trade but the POT $115 puts have .20 in premium at $6.10 and you can sell the $110 puts for $2 if it turns against you. I like the June $90 puts on them for $1.95, looking for $1 and rolling up if it goes the other way at.85 per $5.
AGUJuly $40 puts are $1.05. MOS $50 puts are a fun day trade for .10 but you need to get 3/4 out at .15 and leave the 1/4 or 1/2 out at .20 and 1/2 out at .30 if you get that lucky but consider the .10 money down the drain most likely. Sept $40 puts are $2.75…
