Trade Alert: Adding More Shorts

Taking advantage of the up day to bet against two stocks with significant China tariff exposure.

Taking Advantage Of An Up Day

With the market up today, I’ve added some more short exposure. The United States is the largest market for both of these companies, and both import a significant share of their products or components from China. So both face headwinds from our China tariffs.

Our trades in both cases are OTM puts, with strikes selected within the options market’s expected range for each stock. This way, we’ll be able to put in orders to exit half of our puts early, in case we another big spike down in the market before expiration. That will give us a chance at locking in some profits early, in case President Trump signs some grand bargain with China before our options expire.

Details below.

Today’s First Bearish Trade