This is a long trade on my favorite oil stock and it’s tricky to do so we will track it like the Google spread play.
Valero is splitting (don’t know when) which will mean your options will split and your premium will increase substantially.
It’s a great stock with a lot of room to grow and I think this price (as long as oil stays above $55) is still a bargain.
This trade is for AFTER inventory and only if there is a draw down, indicating a change in market direction back to positive for oil.
I’m taking the January ’08 $90s for $31.20, a $19 premium over 2 years.
I’m selling the December $110s when they pass $2 and retrace .25 so as to maximize the premium I’m charging. I do not want this call to go positive on me so I will buy it back for a 50% loss ($3) if I have to because if the stock splits on you, this guy will make out like a bandit and eat up all your profits.
The goal is to sell more than $31 worth of calls before Jan ’08 leaving us with a free (or 2 free $50) $100 call on a stock that has gone up 20x in 10 years.
At the moment, I will only want to sell way out of the money calls, but if the stock turns on us, I will be looking at some more interesting tricks.
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It looks like yesterday’s Trade of The Day #3 is a grand slam! RIMM is getting hammered in the pre-market, now I’m glad I went with my gut and rode out the head fake!
Since I am getting on a plane, I am going to take my huge profit off the table early and reinvest 30% of the profit in some cheap, out of the money calls. If this thing goes it will collapse fast but it also could turn back on a dime with a posive announcement of a deal with NTP (but I doubt it).
It’s hard to call because of the massive move but it looks like I will be exiting my $65 puts for a nice double at $7 and I will look to pick up about the same number of $50 puts for $1.20 so if the stock goes down to $40 I will only be missing $7 of the action vs. holding and taking a chance.
