Low Cost ($180) SPY Calendar Spread Which Might Double in One Week

Option prices are higher than they have been in several years.  Today I would like to suggest a way to capitalize on these high prices be selling some short-term premium.  You might double your money in a week.  

Maybe you would be unlucky and it would take two weeks to double your money (of course, there are no guarantees in the investment world, but this one looks pretty good to us). 

What I am hoping is that you try this little investment, and if you are successful, you use some of your gain to join Terry’s Tips where you can get a complete education on how to generate consistent gains which could far exceed conventional investments.

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Low Cost ($180) SPY Calendar Spread Which Might Double in One Week

For the past several weeks, SPY has fluctuated in a range between $112 and $120.  Right now it is resting very close to the lower end of that range.  To place the spread that I am suggesting, you first need to make your best bet as to where the stock will be trading at the close of business on Friday.

Your chances of picking the right strike price are about as good as picking the right horse in a horse race, but the good thing about the calendar spread is that if your horse comes close to winning (i.e., the stock closes not too far away from your strike price choice), you can also be a winner.

When you buy a calendar spread, the maximum gain comes when the stock ends up at precisely the same price as the strike price of your spread.  At that price, the short position expires worthless (or very near to it) and the long side will have more time premium than any other option in that expiration series.

Once you have made your best bet as to where the price of SPY will be next Friday, you would put this spread on placing this trade:

BTO (buy to open) 1 SPY Oct-11 115 call (SPY111022C115)
STO (sell to open) 1 SPY Oct1-11 115 call (SPY111007C115) for $1.80 (buying a calendar spread)

This sample is for the 115 strike (you might select a higher or lower strike).  If you select a strike of 112 or higher, we would recommend using calls, or if lower than 112, using puts, although mathematically it makes no difference.  At thinkorswim, Terry’s Tips subscribers would pay a $2.50 commission to place this spread.

The $1.80 price is what you would have had to pay last Friday.  It will probably be less than this if you place the trade today or tomorrow.

You will have two opportunities to get your investment back (and hopefully, more).  The first will come on Friday (October 7).  You will buy back the call you sold short and sell the next-week call at the same strike.  This is the trade you would make then:

BTC (buy to close) 1 SPY Oct1-11 115 call (SPY111007C115)
STO (sell to open) 1 SPY Oct2-11 115 call (SPY111014C115) for $  (selling a calendar spread)

At last Friday’s closing option prices, if the stock is trading between $113 and $116, you would be able to sell this spread for a minimum of $180.  You would have all your money back, and when you made this same trade a week later (on October 21), anything you received from the sale would be pure profit.

An alternative move would be to close out the original calendar spread on October 7 rather than rolling over for another week.  If the strike you selected was within $3 or $4 of the stock price on that day, you should be able to sell the spread at a profit.

This little option spread might be a way to get your feet wet in the options world, and you would learn a little about how calendar spreads work without having to wait very long to see the results.  The closer your selected strike price is to the stock price when the short options expire, the greater your return. 

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