NUE Bullish Call Spread at $2.75 Appears to be a Good Buy

1 March 2023, 11:27 AM

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By Dmitry Pargamanik

How this NUE Bull Call Spread Works

The bottom of the NUE trade card shows us that we would buy one call and sell another with the same 17-Mar-23 expiration (this is a bull call spread as indicated on the top of the card).

Buy: 17-Mar-23 170 CALL

Sell: 17-Mar-23 175 CALL

Reasons to Like This Trade

  • You can buy this spread for $2.75 when theoretically it’s worth $3.11. Simply put, the market is implying a theoretical edge of 13.2%.
  • Your maximum gain is $2.25, which means you can make an astounding 81.8% return on your investment in 13 trading days! (That's if the stock closes at 175 or above. $2.25 / $2.75 = 81.8%) At the time of this alert, the stock was trading at 171.57.
  • The stock only needs to close at, or above, 175.00 after 13 trading days for you to realize this maximum return. That’s only a 2.0% gain! If you look at NUE historically drift, you will find that 63% of the time the stock drifted higher than 2.0% in 13 trading days. Based on historical stock behavior (historical stock drift) the spread has a 63% chance of success.
  • 7 out of 7 indicators are pointing to a bullish sentiment in the stock, which is enough to believe there is a decent chance the stock price could hit its mark of 175.00. Look, nobody knows for sure if the stock is going to go up or down, but, if you had to handicap the stock price, these metrics are indicating that NUE is really riding the momentum of bullish signals.
    Metric Signal Bull or Bear
    Relative Performance 1-yr Outperform Bullish NUE Bullish Relative Performance 1 year
    Relative Performance 3-Mon Outperform Bullish NUE Bullish Relative Performance 3 Month
    Relative Performance 2-Wk Outperform Bullish NUE Bullish Relative Performance 2 Week
    Seasonality Strong Bullish NUE Bullish Seasonality
    Technical Uptrend Bullish NUE Bullish Technical Indicator
    Historical Price Action 69% Uptrend Bullish NUE Bullish Historical Price Action
    Option Order Flow Sentiment Positive Net Option Delta Bullish NUE Bullish Option Order Flow Sentiment

Conclusion

This trade in NUE looks like a good opportunity because:

  1. 7 out of 7 bullish indicators support positive momentum
  2. 81.8% potential return on your investment
  3. Theoretical edge of 13.2%
  4. The stock price is only 2.0% away from the price for you to make the maximum gain!

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Relative Performance

NUE has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +31.1% while the SPY ETF lost -8.4%. NUE has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +15.9% and -0.4%, respectively, while the SPY returned -0.1% and -4.6%, respectively.

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Seasonality: Strong

The strategy involves holding the position from Mar 1 to Mar 17 expiration. Historically, this has been a strong seasonal period. In the past 12 years, NUE shares have increased 58% of the time between Mar 1 to Mar 17, while averaging a return of +0.4%. Learn how to look up stock seasonality.

Technical: Uptrend

The stock price and moving averages are all crossing each other in a positive trend.

Historical Price Action: 69% Uptrend

In the last 4 years, there were 32 historical samples of NUE stock price movements over the same time period as this option spread. The stock moved up 69% of the time for an average return of +6.4%.

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Option Order Flow Sentiment: Positive Net Option Delta

At the time of this NUE trade idea, bullish option order flow exceeded bearish option order flow. The net option delta volume was 61 K.

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