Amazon hit yet another all-time high Tuesday, and TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon says the charts are hinting the e-commerce giant could soon reach a new milestone.
“You can see that [Amazon has made a very nice uptrend in 2017],” the technical analyst said Tuesday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation.” “And if we were to draw a parallel channel, you can see that [Amazon] is moving towards the top end of the parallel channel just south of $1,200 … It looks like we have room towards $1,160 to $1,180 here in the next one to two months”
That’s another rally of as much as 5 percent for the stock, which is already up 50 percent this year.
What’s more, Gordon points out that in the last few months, a cup and handle formation has formed in charts of Amazon, which he sees as a bullish signal that the stock will move even higher.
To take advantage of a rally in Amazon, Gordon wants to buy the December 8 weekly 1,135-strike call and pair that with the sale of the December 8 weekly 1,140-strike call for about $2.10, or $210 per options spread. This means that if Amazon were to close above $1,140 on Dec. 8 expiration, then Gordon could make a maximum profit of $290.
But if Amazon were to close below $1,135, then Gordon would lose the $210 he paid to make the trade. As a precaution, he establishes a point where he would get out of the trade.
“If the premium paid gets cut to about $1.05, let’s go ahead and cut the trade,” he said. “The trade is probably not working.”
Amazon was trading around $1,122 on Tuesday.
