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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On Friday’s Options Action on CNBC we got a question from a viewer about whether or not it was two late to buy puts in Valeant (VRX)? Well, this is obviously a pretty complicated case, …
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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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If you don’t follow Dana Lyons on Twitter you should. The guy tweets some thoughtful analysis of technical and market sentiment without a whole heck of a lot of bias. This morning Dana posted a chart …
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We have a couple existing bearish trades in the etf that tracks the Russell 2000, the IWM, read Match 7th here and March 11th here. There is little that I have heard from Central Banks …
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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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