Mike Khouw's Utilities SPDR Trade


27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


On CNBC's Options Action, Mike Khouw and Carter Worth spoke about a bearish options trading strategy in

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Utilities SPDR (ETF) (NYSE: XLU).Worth used technical analysis to show that Utilities SPDR (ETF) is trading on the upper band of its up trend and when that was a case in the past the stock traded lower. He thinks that this pattern is going to continue and he believes that Utilities SPDR (ETF) is going to $42 from its current price of $45.47. Khouw suggested a simple options strategy because the options are cheap at the moment. He would buy the January 45 put for $1.20 which is approximately 2.5 percent of the value of the underlying. The break even for this trade is at $43.80. Khouw added that the utility companies are trading at or above their long term average multiples.

27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


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