Aflac Making New 52-Week Highs

January 11^th, 2022

Aflac Making New 52-Week Highs

Dear Reader,

Yesterday, we looked at a Monthly Price Chart of Raymond James Financial Inc. noting the stock’s 1-Month Price is trading above the 10-Month SMA.

For today’s Trade of the Day we will be looking at a Daily Price chart for Aflac, Inc. stock symbol: AFL.

Before breaking down AFL’s daily price chart let’s first review which products and services are offered by the company.

Aflac Incorporated, through its subsidiaries, provides supplemental health and life insurance products. It operates through two segments, Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. The Aflac Japan segment offers cancer, medical, income support, GIFT, and whole and term life insurance products, as well as WAYS and child endowment plans under saving type insurance products in Japan. The Aflac U.S. segment provides cancer, accident, short-term disability, critical care, hospital indemnity, dental, vision, long-term care and disability, and term and whole life insurance products in the United States.

Now, let’s begin to break down the Daily Price chart for AFL. Below is a Daily Price Chart with the price line displayed by an OHLC bar.

Buy AFL Stock

The Daily Price chart above shows that AFL stock has been hitting new 52-Week Highs regularly since early January.

Simply put, a stock does not just continually hit a series of new 52-Week Highs unless it is in a very strong bullish trend.

The Hughes Optioneering team looks for stocks that are making a series of 52-Week Highs as this is a good indicator that the stock is in a powerful uptrend.

You see, after a stock makes a series of two or more 52-Week Highs, the stock typically continues its price uptrend and should be purchased.

Our initial price target for AFL stock is 68.00 per share.

73.2% Profit Potential for AFL Option

Now, since AFL stock has recently been hitting 52-Week Highs and will likely rally from here, let’s use the Hughes Optioneering calculator to look at the potential returns for an AFL call option purchase.

The Call Option Calculator will calculate the profit/loss potential for a call option trade based on the price change of the underlying stock/ETF at option expiration in this example from a flat AFL price to a 12.5% increase.

The Optioneering Team uses the 1% Rule to select an option strike price with a higher percentage of winning trades. In the following AFL option example, we used the 1% Rule to select the AFL option strike price but out of fairness to our paid option service subscribers we don’t list the strike price used in the profit/loss calculation.

Trade with Higher Accuracy

When you use the 1% Rule to select a AFL in-the-money option strike price, AFL stock only has to increase 1% for the option to breakeven and start profiting! Remember, if you purchase an at-the-money or out-of-the-money call option and the underlying stock closes flat at option expiration it will result in a 100% loss for your option trade! In this example, if AFL stock is flat at 62.91 at option expiration, it will only result in a 3.5% loss for the AFL option compared to a 100% loss for an at-the-money or out-of-the-money call option.

Using the 1% Rule to select an option strike price can result in a higher percentage of winning trades compared to at-the-money or out-of-the-money call options. This higher accuracy can give you the discipline needed to become a successful option trader and can help avoid 100% losses when trading options.

The goal of this example is to demonstrate the powerful profit potential available from trading options compared to stocks.

The prices and returns represented above were calculated based on the current stock and option pricing for AFL on 1/10/2022 before commissions.

For this specific call option, the calculator analysis below reveals if AFL stock increases 5.0% at option expiration to 66.06 (circled), the call option would make 34.8% before commission.

And if AFL stock increases 10.0% at option expiration to 69.20 (circled), the call option would make 73.2% before commission and outperform the stock return more than 7 to 1.

The leverage provided by call options allows you to maximize potential returns on bullish stocks.

The Hughes Optioneering Team is here to help you identify winning trades just like this one.

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Wishing You the Best in Investing Success,

Chuck Hughes

Editor, Trade of the Day

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