NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA)

Update 6/15/2017: NVDA traded sideways during the period I held the position, and I exited at my target price of 25% of maximum potential profit.

Shares declined by -1.0% over six days, or a -60% annual rate. The options position produced a 33.3% yield on debit for a +2,025% annual rate.

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NVDA has sufficiently high implied volatility on all the metrics I use — against the annual range, current trend and VIX — that it is worth examining for a trade.

I shall use options that trade for the last time 14 days hence, on June 23.

Implied volatility stands at 42%, which is 4.1  times the VIX, a measure of the volatility of the S&P 500 index.

NVDA’s IV stands in the 52nd percentile of its annual range and the 75th percentile of its most recent broad movement.

The price used for analysis was $149.96.

Premium:	$11.25	Expire OTM
NVDA-iron fly	Strike	Odds	Delta
Long	175.00	92.2%	10
Break-even	161.25
Short	150.00	52.5%	51
Puts
Short	150.00	47.2%	49
Break-even	136.25
Long	125.00	89.5%	8

The premium is 45% of the width of the position’s wings.

The risk/reward ratio is 1.2:1.

Decision for My Account

I have entered an order on NVDA as described above. The stock at the time of entry was priced at $149.32.

By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, June 9, 2017

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