First, I want to tell you a little story about Costco (COST).  At the beginning of 2015, it opened trading at $141.87.  At Terry’s Tips, we carry out an actual portfolio which trades COST options.  It started off the year with $6223.  Last Friday, COST closed at $141.06, just a little less than where it started off the year.  Our actual portfolio had grown to $12,599.  That’s over a 100% gain in less than 9 months while the stock actually fell a little in value.

This portfolio is an actual separate account at thinkorswim, and includes all commissions payable at the regular rate paid by Terry’s Tips subscribers. Many of our subscribers follow our trades on their own or have trades executed automatically for them in their accounts through the Auto-Trade program at thinkorswim.  You can imagine how happy they are with their 2015 results in the COST portfolio.

You can see exactly how we doubled our money while the stock was flat by taking advantage of our half-price back-to-school special offer.  For this lowest-price-ever $39.95 offer, click here, enter Special Code BTS (or BTSP for Premium Service - $79.95).

It could be the smartest business move you make in 2015.

Read on, and I’ll tell you a little of how we did it with Costco.

Terry

How Our Costco Portfolio Gained over 100% is 2015 While the Stock Was Flat:  Why must back-to-school purchases only be for the kids?  You got them new back-packs and pens and pads and lots of other things to help them make their learning experience a little easier or fun.

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What better back-to-school gift could there be than a subscription to Terry’s Tips at the lowest price ever?  You will learn exactly how we have made over 100% this year after commissions trading options on Costco, and how you can do it yourself with your favorite stock.

How did we do it?

We use something that we call the 10K Strategy.  It involves selling short-term call options on individual stocks and using longer-term calls that expire in 2016 as collateral.  It is sort of like writing calls, except that you don’t have to put up all that cash to buy 100 or 1000 shares of the stock.   Owning longer-term calls rather than stock enables you to get a much higher return on your investment.

We mainly deal in weekly options in our COST portfolio.  Each Friday, some of these weekly call options are due to expire.  We generally buy them back on that day, even if they are not in the money.  For those options, we could wait until the end of the day and they would expire worthless, but we usually pay $.05 or less to close them out a few hours early.  (By the way, thinkorswim does not charge a commission on those purchases.)  We have found that buying back out-of-the-money calls on Friday (even though it may cost us a little) means that we can sell new weekly options at a higher price than we would get for them by waiting until Monday to make the sales.

The in-the-money calls would get exercised if we did not buy them back, so it important that we take care of them by selling a diagonal or calendar spread, pushing out the short positions to a new weekly series that expires in three or four weeks.  It is important at this time to select strike prices that balance out the risk profile for the portfolio.  Depending on what other weekly calls we have sold, the new ones we sell each Friday may be at strikes which are in the money, at the money, or out of the money (or some combination of these strikes).

We make heavy use of the Analyze tab on the thinkorswim software trading platform to create a risk profile graph for the following Friday.  We aim at creating positions which promise a small gain if the stock falls a little, a large gain if it remains flat, and good gains if it moves higher by a greater margin than it could fall.  The only weeks when we lose money are when the stock falls more than a little, and sometimes when it makes an unusually large gain (and we have to buy back deep in-the-money calls).

Once you have watched every trade we make in this portfolio (and 10 other portfolios) for a month or so, you can figure out how to use this same strategy on any stock you like (if weekly options are offered).

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I look forward to helping you get the school year started off right by sharing this valuable investment information with you at the lowest price ever. It may take you a little homework (yes, you are going back to school), but I am sure you will end up thinking it was well worth the investment.

Happy trading.

Terry

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