Tesla Smashes Its Q4 Deliveries & Here’s What I Am Doing Next

Tesla absolutely crushes it when they announced their Q4 delivery numbers yesterday. Tesla shareholders should be beaming with excitement now because that could translate to a sharp rise in share price when the market opens today.

To give a summary of what they have achieved in Q4 and in this year, you may refer to this screenshot.

I have always believed that Q4 is Tesla’s strongest quarter as they usually announce record sales for the whole year and that would lift the share price. With the recent news that CEO Elon Musk has finished selling 10% of his Tesla shares to raise funds to pay tax and this blowout quarter delivery, Tesla’s share price could go to the moon today.

What I Intend To Do Now?

This is how I intend to capitalise on the uptrend if Tesla’s share price were to go up later. I am planning to buy a deep OTM Tesla LEAPS that is expiring on 16 Sept 22, with a maximum strike price of $2.475. According to last Friday’s closing price, the premium costs around $21.80.

However, it is likely to be more than that if Tesla were to trade higher on opening today. I will be buying this LEAPS contract and later selling it when the momentum stops/ reverses. I did something similar on October 25 when news broke out on Hertz was ordering 100,000 vehicles from Tesla and made 173.18% in 10 days for the LEAPS contract that I bought on that day. It is worth noting that I bought the LEAPS when Tesla was trading at $1025, which was slightly higher than the closing price of $1024, and still made a crazy return out of it.

LEAPS is the most powerful options strategy that gives you magnified returns if the stock is on an uptrend. More than 80% of my SGD$217.5k profits in 2021 comes from LEAPS. Having said that, there are also risks in buying LEAPS and we need to be aware and manage them accordingly.

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