DailyPlay – Opening Trade (TMUS) Closing Trade (AXP) – July 24, 2023

Closing Trade

• AXP – 41.05% Loss: Sell to Close 3 Contracts (or 100% of your Contracts) Aug 18th $170/$185 Call Vertical Spreads @ $4.05 Credit. DailyPlay Portfolio: By Closing all 4 Contracts, we will receive $1,215. Our average loss per contract is therefore $282.

TMUS Bullish Opening Trade Signal

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Strategy Details

Strategy: Long Call Vertical Spread

Direction: Bullish

Details: Buy to Open 4 Contracts Sept 15th $140/$155 Call Vertical Spreads @ $4.98 Debit per contract.

Total Risk: This trade has a max risk of $1,992 (4 Contracts x $498) based on a hypothetical $100,000 portfolio risking 2%. We suggest using 2% of your portfolio value and divide it by $498 to select the # shares for your portfolio.

Trend Continuation Signal: This stock has been bullish and recently broke above a key level.

1M/6M Trends: Bullish/Neutral

Technical Score: 4/10

OptionsPlay Score: 115

Stop Loss: @ $2.49 Credit (50% loss).

Entering the Trade

Use the following details to enter the trade on your trading platform. Please note that whenever there is a multi-leg option strategy, it should be entered as a single trade. 

Please note that these prices are based on Friday’s closing prices. Should the underlying move significantly during the pre-market hours, we will likely adjust the strikes and prices to reflect a more accurate trade entry. 

Investment Rationale

As I write today’s DailyPlay, I wanted to remind readers that our goal is to help you grow your account by instilling strategies that lead to profitability. We do this by firstly ensuring that we don’t blow up our account by continuously cutting losing positions quickly and focusing our efforts on adding exposure in positions that are working to hit home runs. While this may sound simple, managing your emotions as you implement this is far from simple. This is what separates profitable traders from those who struggle with handling the uncomfortable. It’s incredibly difficult to accept lots of small losses while fighting the urge to take profits on your winning positions. It’s important to remember and understand that the road to profitability if filled with a lot of small losers balanced by far fewer big wins. With this in mind, we are closing our 3 Contracts of AXP where earnings did not move in the expected direction at a small loss and adding to our TMUS position that is working. Buy to Open 4 Contracts TMUS Sept $140/155 Call Vertical @ $4.98 Debit.

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