Trade of the Week by TradePartner

 
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Welcome to this week's Trade of the Week by TradePartner where we show you one trade you should be looking into for the week. We do this every week for you, so keep an eye out for another one next week.

Let's dive into last week's action.



Open Positions Summary


Micro ES/ VXX
We continue to inch closer to our target of around $920 in profit.  We're ¾'s of the way there, so we will continue to hold.  No adjustments made.

Micro Nasdaq
We had a quick move down on the Nasdaq last week.  Below is the trade as a reminder:


Buy 1 /MNQ 14100 Dec17 Put @ 535.75
Sell 1 /MNQ 14800 Dec17 Put @ 770.00

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Buy 1 14900 Dec17 Call @ 802.25

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Sell 1 /MNQ Dec17 Micro-Futures @ 14884.75

The move down had us in healthy profit relative quickly so we closed it. We were looking for a larger move down but the pop in volatility gave us all the motivation we needed to close. Total net on the trade was $226 per contract.  Excellent return for a week.  Remember don't get greedy.


This Week's Trade

This week we are targeting Cisco.  She is flirting with new all-time highs and has earnings coming up on 8/18/2021.  Seasonally, she tends to top off around July for the year so we're playing her bullish into earnings to creep back to her highs at around $58.  Take a look at the seasonal chart below:




The red line at the bottom shows the seasonal bias and the blue line is the current stock movement.  Here's our play:

Buy 1 CSCO Aug20  61 Put @6.83

Sell 3 CSCO Aug20  58 Put @4.03

Buy 2 CSCO Aug20  55  Put @1.90

We're in at a credit of 1.46.  The risk graph looks like this:


We're risking $154 on the trade with breakeven at the $55.77 stock price.  We will most likely exit on a move higher prior to earnings.  If she doesn't move higher then we are prepared to risk the entire $154 to play an earnings pop.

Trade well,
Benjamin – Market Monster Hunter


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