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 45% annualized. We are coming off great trades such as RES and STM.
Stock: Gaslog (GLOG) is an international owner, operator and manager of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. The Company provides support to international energy companies as part of their LNG logistics chain. The Company’s owned consolidated fleet consists of 27 LNG carriers, including 22 ships in operation and five LNG carriers on order.
Trend: We have detected a “Continuation Diamond (Bullish)” chart pattern formed on GasLog Ltd (GLOG). This bullish signal indicates that the price may rise from the close of 17.45 to the range of 22.00. The pattern formed over 244 days which is roughly the period of time in which the target price range may be achieved. GasLog Ltd has a current support price of 16.80 and a resistance level of 17.60.
Strategy: We have an opportunity to sell options for income with GLOG 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 November 2017 17.5 PUT for about $1.00. This creates a return of 6.0% with 49 days to expiration. This is an annualized 45% return.
For a conservative trade, you can setup a covered call trade. You can purchase 100 shares of RES and sell an November 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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