Fighting Big Oil

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I currently have three ETF positions: puts on XLU, IWM, and XOP. It’s that last one that I wanted to talk about.

Below is the 60-day minute bar chart of XOP which, like everything else, ripped higher recently. I wanted to take advantage of its proximity to that huge blob of overhead supply. My options are March 15th $140 puts.

Here is the daily chart, still shown with the volume profile, to illustrate resistance. My stop-loss on this is at $138.


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