Showing posts with label NBG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NBG. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

NBG closed

NBG got hammered on news that it was having a secondary.  My long play was the Jan. 16  calls with a 10 strike against the Jan  16, 5.5c short calls.  In other words, sell the 5.5 to pay for 3 10 calls (plus a credit).  The dilution makes it less likely that a move to 10 is likely.


Although my original theory was wrong and had I taken a stock trade I would have been run over, I made some money on the spread.  This a reason why I like ratio spread -- you can be very wrong and make money.  If you are very right you make a lot of money... as long as your not just kind of right.