Dollar General $DG - Cash Secured Put Trade Idea

25 Nov 2023

On Wed Nov 22 2023 I entered a cash secured put trade on DG

I did this for several reasons:

Price closed above the 50MA on daily candles.
Price broke out of the horizontal support.
Price closed above a medium/long term diaginal support.
Moving averages are crossing over and sloping upwards.
Price is oversold as the stock has fallen by approximately -62% from its October 2022 high.
The stock volatility was at 94% giving th edge to option sellers, yet we are still 15 days away from DG earnings.
Earnings are another example why I think the price of my put will expire OTM and I will get to keep this inflated premium. You see the bar for DG earnings as set by the analysts is pretty low, with the estimates of EPS: $1.197 and Revenue: 9.648B, both I believe could be low targets for DG based on their historic and last quarter results.
There is also an unfilled bullish gap from a technical perspective above the current price at around the $138.44-$157.60 level.

I sold a DEC 15 $115 PUT for a premium of $2.95 per contract. My thoughts are that the contracts will expire worthless and that I will be able to keep the premium. If the volatility drops from the current levels I will realize my profits faster. Depending on how much profit gets captured from the option I might exit early before earnings and lock in profits without increasing my risk due to the upcoming earnings, as we know during earnings its a coin toss and anything can happen.



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