Subject: Stock Option Trading Idea of the Week from Terry's Tips - A Post-Earnings Starbucks (SBUX) Play
Stock Option Trading Idea of the Week from Terry's Tips - A Post-Earnings Starbucks (SBUX) Play
January 28th, 2013 at 9:18 am EDTDear Friend, In our efforts to find new and different option opportunities in this world of 5-year-low SPY option prices, we have been checking out pre-earnings-announcement strategies. Just prior to the earnings announcement, implied volatility (IV ...
January 26, 2013 Saturday Report
January 26th, 2013 at 10:29 am EDTJanuary 26, 2013 Saturday Report Dear Friend, Apple has finally done about all the damage it can do to our portfolios and it is time to move on without what was once our favorite company. Lots of discussion this week on how to play earnings a ...
Stock Option Trading Idea of the Week from Terry's Tips - A Remarkably Safe Way To Play The Apple Earnings Announcement
January 22nd, 2013 at 6:00 am EDTDear Friend, Apple announces earnings Wednesday after the close and I have come up with a strategy that looks like it can make a decent gain for the week (ranging from 5% to 15%) with almost no chance of incurring a loss. The big downside of the str ...
January 19, 2013 Saturday Report
January 19th, 2013 at 8:20 am EDTJanuary 19, 2013 Saturday Report Dear Friend, VIX fell to a 5-Year low and the market moved to new highs. Only our Dog of Dogs portfolio recorded unusually good gains while our eBay earnings announcement play yielded 11.6% after commissions. ...
Closing Out the eBay Spreads
January 18th, 2013 at 8:32 am EDTClosing Out the eBay Spreads All of the shot options could be purchased for $.01 (with no commissions due at thinkorswim) so I bought them all back. The earlier net cost I reported was inaccurate (in my note to subscribers, I recommended buying 10 ...
Update on eBay Trades
January 17th, 2013 at 7:07 am EDTUpdate on eBay Trades With the stock up nicely today, I am taking off the put calendar spread at the 50 strike: BTC 20 EBAY Jan-13 50 puts (EBAY1301029P50) for $.02 (no commission) STC 20 EBAY Feb-13 50 puts (EBAY130216P50) for $.28 I plan to wait un ...
How to Play the EBAY Earnings Announcement (with fixed link)
January 15th, 2013 at 7:02 am EDTHow to Play the EBAY Earnings Announcement The following is a list of trades I made I made in my personal account this morning. EBAY will disclose earnings after the close on Wednesday, January 16th. As usual, Implied Volatility (IV) of the Jan-13 op ...
How to Play the EBAY Earnings Announcement
January 15th, 2013 at 6:59 am EDTHow to Play the EBAY Earnings Announcement The following is a list of trades I made I made in my personal account this morning. EBAY will disclose earnings after the close on Wednesday, January 16th. As usual, Implied Volatility (IV) of the Jan-13 op ...
How to Play the EBAY Earnings Announcement
January 15th, 2013 at 6:31 am EDTHow to Play the EBAY Earnings Announcement The following is a list of trades I made I made in my personal account this morning. EBAY will disclose earnings after the close on Wednesday, January 16th. As usual, Implied Volatility (IV) of the Jan-13 op ...
Stock Option Trading Idea of the Week from Terry's Tips - Alternative Options Strategies When VIX is Low
January 14th, 2013 at 11:24 am EDTDear Friend, Option prices are at multi-year lows. VIX, the most popular measure of option prices, is at 13.36. For several years we never saw it much below 15 except for maybe a day or two. The mean average of VIX is 20.54 so today’s value is 35% ...