Shares of General Electric (GE) have spent the better part of 2016 trading in a fairly tight range between $28 and $32, now approaching the upper end: To my eye, a rejection at $32 and …
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On August 30th, we wrote a recap of some trade ideas Dan presented on a panel at the Ameritrade Investools Conference. The ideas focused on 3 widely held stocks in big cap tech, media and …
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Event: Qualcomm (QCOM) reports fiscal Q4 results tomorrow night after the close. The options market is implying a 6% one day post earnings move which is shy of the nearly 8% average over the last 4 …
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A few weeks ago we looked at a possible yield enhancement strategy for those that were long Apple stock. The idea behind the trade was to sell a strangle in the stock, acting as a …
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Today I had the pleasure to speak at TD Ameritrade’s annual Investools conference alongside my Options Action co-panelist Michael Khouw. As part of the discussion, he and I both detailed some options trade ideas in …
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You know the drill on bond yields, there is little to none. In this environment, investors have crowded into equities that have better yields than their company’s debt, like utilities, pharma and telcos. From time …
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Earlier Dan previewed Apple’s fiscal Q2 results (here) due after the bell. Now we want to detail a couple options trade ideas for those with existing positions who may be interested in hedging, or for those looking …
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Event: Alphabet (GOOGL) reports Q1 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 5.5% one day move, or about $42 in either direction, which is cheap to the 4 qtr average …
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Back in late November we took a look at the technical set up in General Electric (GE), as the stock approached multi-year highs around $30 (Trade Idea – $GE Whiz). At the time we advocated call …
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For some time now we have stated our belief that AAPL stock would likely remain range-bound through year end. On November 10th we detailed a trade to add yield for those that were long AAPL …
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