Subject: Stock Option Trading Idea of the Week from Terry's Tips - A Remarkably Safe Way To Play The Apple Earnings Announcement
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 ESTDear 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 ESTJanuary 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 ESTClosing 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 ESTUpdate 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 ESTHow 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 ESTHow 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 ESTHow 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 ESTDear 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% ...
Closing Out the Wells Fargo Spreads
January 11th, 2013 at 6:05 am ESTClosing Out the Wells Fargo Spreads Yesterday I shared with you some trades I made in advance of Wells Fargo’s (WFC) earnings announcement before the bell today. I bought 30 Feb-13 – Jan2-13 35 call calendar spreads for $.34, shelling out $1020 p ...
How to Play the Wells Fargo earnings announcement for tomorrow
January 10th, 2013 at 8:22 am ESTHow to Play the Wells Fargo earnings announcement for tomorrow Wells Fargo & Company (WFC) will announce earnings tomorrow. What is interesting to me is that Implied Volatility of the Weeklys that expire tomorrow is 52 while the IV of the February op ...