TRADE BULLETIN: Three to Close – Like a Prison Break! (CME/KRE,NEE,XLF)

We’ve got trades a’closing, brothers – and no time to lose!

So strip off that wetsuit and grab a martini.

There’s money on the table.

We start with a letter we penned back on July 1^st called Peak Stock Exchange, in which we recommended you sell the CME August 2nd 197.50 CALL for $4.03 and buy the KRE January 17th 53 CALL for $3.95.  Total credit on the trade was $0.08.

On August 2^nd we sent you a letter announcing we were buying back the CME CALL for $3.50.

And since then, we’ve maintained radio silence…

But now we’re coming out, Willy – and we’re not ashamed to say it.  In fact, we want the whole world to know that we’re officially expunged!  Our time at Rikers (and two other, minimum security facilities) will never again appear in police files or on a court document again!

Ahem…

Today, at $4.55, the KRE CALL has the forearms of an Italian grandmother, and we’re going to recommend you sell it, scars and all.

Do it and you walk free with $1.13 on nothing expended.  Adjusted for minimal commissions, that gives you a take of 653%.

Go Home, Bro!

Next up is a trade from our August 28^th missive called I’ve Had it up to HERE with the Utilities.  In that letter we urged you to sell the NEE October 18th 230 CALL for $2.80 and buy the NEE October 18th 240 CALL for $0.75, for a credit of $2.05.  With that money we recommended the purchase of an NEE December 20th 180 PUT for $1.10.  Total credit on the trade was $0.95.

And what happened?

At October expiry the short 230 CALL ended in-the-money, and we found ourselves short one lot of NEE at $230.

But fortunes shift, and ours did, too.

Today, NEE sells for $227.11, and we’re advising you to buy back the shares for an additional credit of $2.89 (on top of your $0.95!).

And you still hold the long 180 PUT!

We’ll keep an eye on this one, friends.

It could be one hallucinatory madhouse of profits.

Yessir!  One more item.

Back on May 20^th, in a letter called Market Dominance and Bond Submission, we wrote a pairs trade on the financial sector that pitted high-flier MKTX against the broad sector ETF, XLF.

The trade still has time to run, but because the market feels VERY stretched at the moment, we’re recommending you sell your long XLF CALL for $9.20.

We’ll keep a sharp eye on the MKTX option and inform you of any necessary action before she expires next week.

That is, of course, unless we find ourselves on an Alaskan Cruise that never docks!

Heh, heh…

Eschatologically yours,

Alan B. Harvard

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