A little while back I wrote about trading overall market volatility through ETN’s and the difficulty of trading from the long vol side (VXX.) With what’s going on in D.C. and the uncertainty over how …
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Earnings season is filled with land-mines for traders and investors alike. Most traders are drawn to the events as they offer the potential for out-sized volatility while most investors dread the potential for downward swoon …
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Here’s the latest on the manufactured crisis that is the debt ceiling vote: Politico House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) delivered a blunt message to the Republican Conference Tuesday morning: Quit the “grumbling” and …
Continue readingUpdate July 26th 2011: ERTS report their fiscal Q1 tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 5.5% move following earnings vs the average over the last 4 qtrs of about 9%. …
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Update July 26th, 2011: -Since suggesting this JNPR Aug Call Spread (below) almost a month ago the market is essentially flat and so is JNPR. There has been some mixed results in the telco equipment …
Continue readingUpdate: yesterday before the bell I reiterated my quick bearish thesis on NFLX. I did not want to commit a lot of premium to a punt before earnings, but I wanted to play. Butterflies can …
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The VIX‘s 10% move higher yesterday seemed to finally represent some of the volatility in single names following earnings announcements over the last 2 weeks, despite the ~3% move higher in the SPX during that …
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NFLX $282 -company reports their Q2 earnings tonight after the close. -options market implying about a 10% move which looks a little cheap to the ~13.5% average move of the last 8 quarterly reports. …
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Update July 25th, 2011: Company reports their Q2 tomo after the close, and frankly while I was not playing for a miss, the sentiment is just too strong and I don’t want to have short …
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Friday on Options Action I officially closed out of my AAPL Sept Call Spread Risk Reversal that I suggested buying on the site (here) when the stock was $360 and on the show July 15th, …
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