One of our focuses at RiskReversal is trade management. And not just for trades ideas we do ourselves but also trades ideas that make sense against assumed long positions, as portfolio hedges, as yield enhancement …
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I know I had a lot to say about Apple (AAPL) yesterday (Trade Idea – $AAPL Harvest), but I wanted to highlight on more thing: Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money my friend Carter Worth, chartist-extraordinaire …
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Regular readers know that we think Apple (AAPL) stock is likely to be range-bound (dead money) for the time being. Here were my comments from Oct 28th following their fiscal Q4 earnings: Things are good …
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Regular readers know that we are very happy long time consumers of almost every Apple (AAPL) product, both personally and professionally. We spend a good bit of time writing about AAPL the stock as it …
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Last night I got back from a vacation that I left for on August 21st. It figures that the stock market crashed in between. While crash may be a bit extreme, in comparison to the lack of volatility …
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A few weeks ago we detailed a yield enhancement strategy for those long Apple (AAPL) stock as we saw the chances of large movement in either direction during the July expiration cycle to be minimal. Here …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was June 1st to June 5th:
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The general rule of thumb when selling volatility is to do so when options prices are high relative to the broad market, the underlying’s movement, and most importantly to its historical options prices. Sometimes though, …
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Ciena Corp (CIEN) report fiscal Q2 results tomorrow morning before to the open. The options market is implying about a 7% one day move, which is shy to the 4 qtr avg one day move …
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A week ago we detailed a way for a McDonald’s (MCD) shareholder to add 2% (yield or protection) in the next 5 trading days if MCD was between $100 and $95 (stock reference $97.80) on …
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