My post above yours i posted i sold on Monday at $405.20. I'm in none . At $320 thats a steal of all steals. Thats an easy back to $450-$500 in 2026. Mapd carriers getting $25 bil more and United will cut plans and benefits big. United's razor focused on profit margins
Just a minor distraction . United makes more money that the 4 next biggest healthcare providers . If united tems plans heavy this aep every company will be in trouble as they'll commission suppress
If you're a professional or semi professional trader, you're not buying 800 whole shares of United and flipping them for $9 a share.
I hear you that $320k is a lot of money. Why you didn't pursue an options trade makes little sense to me given your very high confidence in how the stock would move. If anything, write some covered calls against that position.
And i do that at times . For instance in early April when we were tanking and Nivida,Amd and Pltr were getting crushed i sold naked puts about 10-12% about of the money . The premiums were massive and i didn't mind the stocks getting put to me . I had about 15% cushion to be wrong and not lose money . I did this in march 2009 when the market was in a free fall . I remember selling the spy's about 15% out of the money for like $40 premium . The Vix was over 70 . There's no guarantees in life as to make good money you must take risk
You ready to steal you a few at 320?
Possibly although it's looking really ugly here . But $290-$320 its probably good buy to hold 1-2 yrs . I have no doubt they cut costs to the bone and reduce plan benefits big and term a crap load of unprofitable plans and areas . Chaos coming to mapd . The by product of all this is other carriers will commission suppress fast during aep as business comes flying in
