Yesterday we detailed trades into two earnings events, Nike (NKE) and RedHat (RHT). The two stocks have nothing to do with eachother other than they were both reporting on the same day. But I wanted …
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Event: Infrastructure Software vendor RedHat (RHT) reports their fiscal Q4 results after the close. The options market is implying about an 8% one day move which is very rich to the 4 qtr average of …
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Yesterday, Dan previewed Nike (NKE) fiscal Q3 earnings due after the bell today and highlighted a large trade that went up in the options market. To recap, here was that large trade: When the stock …
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As I write Apple (AAPL) is hosting their iPhone For Trump Sized Hands / iPad / iWatch wristband event. Yes this is really going on. Expectations were not particularly high on the product front even …
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Event: Nike (NKE) reports their fiscal Q3 results tomorrow night after the close. The options markets is implying about a 5% one day move. With the stock at $65. the March 65 weekly straddle (the …
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UPDATE 3/21/16: When I wrote this up on Friday I forgot to consider the fact that MCD shares go ex-dividend on May 27th, 2016, and if one was considering this sort of stock alternative strategy …
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Announcement: CC and I will be co hosting a live webinar this Monday for the Ticker District with my Options Action co-panelist Mike Khouw. We’ll be talking about options and event risk in particular and …
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Yesterday, we detailed the use of calendars into the ADBE earnings event where you sell the event month options and buy a farther month at a much lower volatility. In doing so you target the …
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Crude oil and the dollar have been the source of much of global market volatility across asset classes the past year. The end of QE in late 2014 caused the dollar to emerge from its …
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Earlier, Dan previewed Adobe’s (ADBE) Q1 earnings due after the bell. Like I did last week with ORCL and ratio spreads versus long stock, I want to use ADBE’s earnings event as an educational look into another …
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