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Sticking with META Puts

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The only really bright spot for me on Thursday was my bearish META position, by way of September $700 puts. It would be simple to take the fat profits and be done with it, but looking at Meta’s history, it seems to me that big price gaps don’t typically mark a “one and done” situation but instead kick off a long slide of lower prices. Keep in mind, these options have 141 days of life in them. Why dump them now?

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Sell in May ……….

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The old market saw goes that you should sell in May and go away, and rarely if ever in my view has that been more true than it is this year.

That isn’t to say that equity indices can’t go higher in the short term. I wrote a post on Tuesday looking at possible upside targets on SPX and QQQ that I would like to see hit, and have more modest upside targets on DIA and IWM that I’ll also look at today.

When we see the high for this move made, whether at those targets or lower, I think the prospects for equities over the summer look bleak. I covered some of the reasons for that in a post last Thursday on my The Bigger Picture substack looking at why the Iran War was largely irrelevant in the context of the economic shock being created by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. If you haven’t already read that I’d suggest that you do that.

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