$326 profit in MSFT
- themoneyloaf
- Mar 19
- 2 min read
Happy weekend!
Straight into the trade this week with another win in MSFT.
This week:
$326 profit in Microsoft (MSFT)
$326 profit in MSFT
This week features the return of one of my favorite types of trades in the form of the put ratio spread.
MSFT hasn't had an easy time of late. In 2026 it's down about 16%, and over the last 12 months it's been about flat. When the stock dipped towards the end of January, it looked like a good opportunity to put some capital to work.
I sold the $395/400 put ratio spread expiring on Feb 27 for $190 credit and left the trade to run.
The journey was by no means a smooth one! MSFT dipped below $395 at multiple times during the duration of the trade, at one point even below $385.
As this trade was placed live during my January options course, there were a lot of questions and hypotheticals as to how I would manage the trade if it ended up being in the money.
Thankfully not only did that not come to pass, the opposite happened and MSFT rebounded to somewhere between $395 and $400, and allowed me to close the trade for an extra $136 credit.
I traded MSFT throughout 2025 with 5 wins from 5 trades and a total realized profit of $1,570.
I'm hoping to have similar opportunities in 2026, and in fact on the same day this trade closed, I placed a new MSFT put ratio trade for the next month. I'll share that trade here once it's closed as well.
This trade (and all trades in this newsletter) are shared in close-to real time to my private community as updates in my own portfolio (not recommendations). If you're familiar with the basic mechanics of options, you can consider joining the private community to view these updates as well.
And of course the guidance for managing and closing both trades were posted to the community as well.
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Closing thoughts & useful links
The geopolitical uncertainty continues to bring about some mild volatility in the markets. While I've deployed some capital to work, I'm trying not to be too aggressive just in case there's even more volatility to come.
Have a good weekend!
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