Moving sideways, i have an JAN 16 order for a bear call spread 141/142 Everything looks to confirm sideways movements especially the bearish engulfing candle on 12/30
I have placed order for .10 limit of this bear spread on FB. Five trading days left, high probability, Everything confirms neutral.
This is becoming somewhat of an epic, post-earnings work-off setup. Without boring you with all the details (which are outlined in the post below), my post-earnings setup, after rolling and such is currently a Dec 7 140/143/140/143 iron condor. The 140/143 is the put wing and, yes, the 140/143 is the call wing (so it's basically inverted, with the call wing...
Only two earnings plays stick out to me this coming week -- FDX and ORCL, both of which announce earnings on 12/16 (Wednesday) after market close, so look to put on setups before NY close on Wednesday. Currently, FDX's 52 week IVR is at 54 (IV 34), which isn't stellar, but it's at 92 for the past six months. Moreover, there is pretty good credit to be had...
If you've got a few index ETF (SPY, IWM, DIA, or QQQ) iron condor trades on like I do, well, sadly, it is likely that your short call sides have been breached by this recent up move. So, what do you do? 1. Don't panic. These were defined risk trades when you put them on, and they remain defined risk, which means that your max loss is limited on the call side...
As anybody who has read my posts probably knows, I am not a big fan of earnings plays. As I have pointed out, they either go great (instant gratification) or terribly (several cycles of rolls to mitigate loss that tie up buying power). Me, I'm a bread-and-butter guy with a penchant for mechanical index ETF and TLT trades that supply a fairly constant level of...
YUM announces earnings on 10/6 after market close, so if you're going to play this via an options setup, look at getting a fill for whatever you put on prior to the 10/6 New York close. Ordinarily, I trade these using a short strangle or iron condor, with the short call/put legs at or around the 1 standard deviation line for the chosen expiry, which will either...
I have a love-hate relationship with earnings plays. When they work out, I'm happier than a clam; when they don't, I swear off them, use expletives to describe them, and say that they're a total *?! waste of time. That being said, there are some I just can't pass up, usually because the premium is just too good. In the next couple of weeks, these will be NFLX,...
Although we are starting back into another earnings season, I'm just not all that fond of earnings plays; I prefer the relative boredom of index ETF trades or things like sector SPDR's for the generation of steady income as opposed to flash-in-the-plan earnings plays which are generally binary in nature. They either work out quickly and dirtily or go horribly...
87.50 / 85 Bull put spread July expiration AO 6/10/15 This is a bullish gap! The bear call spread will come close Likely. .25 limit on the spread On a 1-10 bear to bull I'm a 6
JNJ is going sideways. BCS is above the long terms and a strong resistance.
YHOO Is between 100 200 SMA on the daily. Nice gap providing resistance for the bear call and 200 SMA, hammer, gap, candle providing support for the bull put. 20% potential, less than 3 weeks time.
62.50 / 65 Bear call spread .15 limit (looking to leg into a 45/44 bull put spread making an iron condor) March expiration. I would not even LOOK at this bcs unless we close above 59 on the daily AO 2/23/15
I would not even look at bear call spread portion unless we close above 120 on the hourly. 121 is the line in the sand to make a decision. (this spread goes along with the daily moving averages. On the bull put spread portion, I would not even look at spread unless we close below 116.50 on the hourly. 114.83 is line in the sand. I'm basing this spread on volume...