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The Option Trade Strategy To Time A Bounce In Tech

We don't have to nail the bottom, but a play on reversion is very lucrative here.

Transcript Summary (Convex Spaces Morning Market Update)

Market Context

  • Market has been heavy, but the broader structure still looks like a range reset, not a major trend break.

  • NASDAQ is retesting the October “rug pull” zone and sitting on a Swing-Anchored VWAP + 100EMA confluence, which could produce one more shove lower.

  • % of S&P 500 stocks above their 50-day MA is around 36%, a healthy reset inside a rising long-term trend.

  • Surface-level: some megacaps are holding (AAPL, AMZN, TSLA), some are breaking but approaching support (MSFT ~480), some are deeply oversold (META).

Equal-Weight View

  • Equal-weight S&P and equal-weight NASDAQ continue to nose under support.

  • Under-the-hood damage is already substantial; breadth reset is advanced.

Interpretation

  • Not calling a bottom—calling the start of a bottoming process.

  • “One more rug pull” is still on deck, but the market is stretched enough that upside mean reversion has edge.

Meta-Specific Notes

  • Meta tends to bottom through a process—multi-week resets like taper tantrum, last summer, etc.

  • After this overshoot down, a natural bounce could push price into the 620–632 zone, where:

    • declining 20EMA catches up

    • Swing-Anchored VWAP sits

    • prior structure lives

Setup Philosophy

  • You want to be early, not perfect.

  • Expect chop → bounce → chop.

  • Use a structure that:

    • benefits from time decay

    • allows adding on further weakness

    • doesn’t require immediate directional precision


META Trade Setup (Weekly Call Calendar at 625)

1. Structure

A call calendar using next-week short calls and the following week’s long calls.

Sell:

  • META 625 call – exp: Nov 28, 2025

Buy:

  • META 625 call – exp: Dec 5, 2025

Cost: ~$3.18 (reasonable fill)

2. Why this works now

  • Nobody wants calls right now, so upside vol is underpriced.

  • You capture:

    • Short-term IV decay on the short call

    • Directional upside via the long call

  • The trade is bullish, but not a leveraged chase.

  • Profit zone centered around 625–632, where key technical levels converge.

3. Expected Pathing

  • Meta rebounds into 625–632 → calendar pays nicely.

  • If it chops sideways → time decay works for you.

  • If it sells off → you can add lower-strike calendars (ex: at 615) to build a double-calendar for a bigger base.

4. If It Rips Immediately

  • A one-day squeeze above 650 would hurt (you go net short temporarily), but:

    • declining 20EMA

    • VWAP overhead
      make a straight-up melt unlikely.

5. If Meta Dumps Another -10 to -12 Points

  • Add the same structure at lower strikes (e.g., 615).

  • Creates a double-calendar:

    • Increasing theta

    • Wider profit envelope

    • Stronger bounce-play gamma into December

6. Hidden Benefit: Forced Long

If META doesn’t reclaim 625 next week, you are left with:

  • Long December 625 calls for ~3.18 cost

  • B/E ~628

  • Totally reasonable upside target into December.

This becomes a cheap swing long if the calendar portion collapses.


Bottom Line

Out-of-the-money weekly call calendars on META (and ORCL, AMZN) offer asymmetric reversion-to-mean upside with controlled risk.

  • Plays the bottom-formation process

  • Benefits from chop

  • Lets you scale into further weakness

  • Doesn’t require bottom-ticking

Primary Target Zone: 625–632
Primary Mechanism: Time decay + modest bounce
Edge: Underpriced upside volatility + technical reversion point overhead

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