As income investors, we seek to create consistent monthly income by selling options to collect monthly premiums. This has been successful for our investors for years. Option selling offers another method to diversify investing strategies beyond traditional dividend investing. We have combined technical stock events with our strategy to identify high returns option selling opportunities. This income trade will generate a return of 40% annualized.
Stock: STMicroelectronics N.V., (STM) together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets semiconductor products, and subsystems and modules worldwide. STM has strengthened its ecosystem through a Partner Program that connects customers with qualified technical specialists capable of strategically supporting their projects.
We have identified a bullish “Continuation Diamond” chart pattern. This bullish signal indicates that the stock price may rise from the close of $17.44 to the range of $20. The pattern formed over 114 days which is roughly the period of time in which the target price range may be achieved, according to standard principles of technical analysis.
STMicroelectronics has a current support price of 17.04 and a resistance level of 17.46 that has been broken this week.
A Continuation Diamond (Bullish) is considered a bullish signal, indicating that the current uptrend may continue. Prices create higher highs and lower lows in a broadening pattern, then the trading range gradually narrows after the highs peak and the lows start trending upward. The technical event occurs when prices break upward out of the diamond formation to continue the prior uptrend, which confirms the pattern.
Strategy: We have an opportunity to sell options for income with STM as the stock should trade higher in the coming weeks. I recommend to place your trade and exit when you have locked in profits due to the stock price moving higher. Our goal here is to make income short term so we can exit and compound capital into another trade.
For medium risk option trade, look to sell an October 2017 17.5 PUT for about $0.80. This creates a return of 4.8% with 6 weeks to expiration.
For a conservative trade, you can setup a covered call trade. You can purchase 100 shares of STM and sell an October 17.5 CALL option for about $0.80.
We continue to identify winning option trades to generate income and to exit early as the stock bullish patterns moves prices higher.
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