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  • #13,921
  • Jul 20, 2016 12:26pm Jul 20, 2016 12:26pm
Quoting The Fool
near the close I bought a $51/$54 MSFT Jul 22 strangle for 90c, MSFT was right at $53.00,,,,,,big 1-lot gamble......MSFT pushing towards $55 AH, I might make a dollah
in for 90c out for $2.60
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  • #13,922
  • Jul 20, 2016 12:37pm Jul 20, 2016 12:37pm
Quoting The Fool
How I am trading NFLX - bot a Jul 22/Jul 29 $90/$105 DC. 50c debit. If nothing else changes, p/l will look as shown on expiry day, about a 60c net out...but if lucky I will get a 5% iv rise or better, so I am setting a $1.25 gtc on it....
yeah, NFLX dropped like a lead turd, way below the $90 strike. But I hoped it would bounce & it did, ...I had a 65c gtc on the $90 calendar & that hit today. If I would have seen it in time prolly woulda asked for more, in hopes NFLX might keep floating up to pin $90 on Friday, but oh well......these ER trades a bit of a crap shoot, but at least something happens. 15c out is just a tad over b/e, with all the legs in the DC....
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  • #13,923
  • Jul 20, 2016 4:20pm Jul 20, 2016 4:20pm
CMG posts tomorrow. Can it pop a $50 move? I put some money on that: a pair of $2.50 wide verts: $372.5/$370 puts and $457.50/$460 calls, 40c and 25c respectively (Jul 22 all). Pretty good r:r if we get a big poppy. CMG closing today at $421.
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  • #13,924
  • Jul 20, 2016 9:15pm Jul 20, 2016 9:15pm
Pandora ain't all that no mo, been known to drop like a lead zeppelin on ER stink. Can really fill these verts for 2c? We'll see. I will check later weeks - ER's tomorrow, verts shown are next week expiry....2c on a 50c vert pretty nice, I would do up to a nickel for this lotto tick
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  • #13,925
  • Jul 21, 2016 9:29pm Jul 21, 2016 9:29pm
Quoting The Fool
CMG posts tomorrow. Can it pop a $50 move? I put some money on that: a pair of $2.50 wide verts: $372.5/$370 puts and $457.50/$460 calls, 40c and 25c respectively (Jul 22 all). Pretty good r:r if we get a big poppy. CMG closing today at $421.
luckily, never filled - CMG down only 2% ah post -ER
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  • #13,926
  • Jul 21, 2016 9:31pm Jul 21, 2016 9:31pm
Quoting The Fool
Pandora ain't all that no mo,
they wanted 6c or more for the verts shown, no fill, hindsight I see those are too wide
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  • #13,927
  • Edited 9:59pm Jul 21, 2016 9:37pm | Edited 9:59pm
LVS Jul 22/29 $46/$48 DC cost me $1.26...... runs to the Jul 29 $46/48 strangle in ER week, if LVS cooperates
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  • #13,928
  • Jul 21, 2016 10:01pm Jul 21, 2016 10:01pm
been tryin fill a PCLN double vert for ER week, there are some price breaks in there, but filling so cheap near atm gonna be a long shot
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  • #13,929
  • Jul 21, 2016 10:47pm Jul 21, 2016 10:47pm
Quoting The Fool
the AAPL DC is set up to run into the ER week as a strangle.....just need AAPL to pull back a little by Friday....
AAPL Jul 22/Jul 29 $100 calls calendar, I took it off.....AAPL pegged right on $100 yesterday close so I bailed on it for a 60c profit on the entire DC.....now of course AAPL will pull back and then blast to $110 after the ER, and I will have traded 60c for a $10 stunner. The moral: put on bigger numbers so you can afford to let some run in this scenario. Anyway, I will still have the Jul 29 $90 puts....
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  • #13,930
  • Jul 21, 2016 11:36pm Jul 21, 2016 11:36pm
cheap long vol @ VXX calls. Kahuna style. Fishing in the Jul FOMC week for a bit of hawkish noise....surely JY is concoyned about the precipitous rise in US equities?
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  • #13,931
  • Jul 22, 2016 1:13am Jul 22, 2016 1:13am
or maybe it'll be September? Compare quarterly BWF's using SPX vs SPY:

SPY Sep 30 $213.00/200/187.00 @9 lot risks $1.34k to make max $8.41k

SPX Sep 30 2125/2000/1875 @ 1-lot risks $1.31k to make $8.99k
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  • #13,932
  • Edited 4:12pm Jul 22, 2016 3:30pm | Edited 4:12pm
[quote=The Fool;9043079]LVS Jul 22/29 $46/$48 DC cost me $1.26...... runs to the Jul 29 $46/48 strangle in ER week, if LVS cooperates [quote]

it on like d. kong - I also have Jul 29 $45/$48....the best I have left of Q2 earnings setups, been trying to find good deals elsewhere - nothing yet.

LVS closed today at $47.32, ER's Monday, looking for the easy northbound winner, anything over $49.25, roughly, is money
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  • #13,933
  • Jul 22, 2016 4:09pm Jul 22, 2016 4:09pm
lol, it's a bonanza...
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...ine&yptr=yahoo
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  • #13,934
  • Jul 22, 2016 4:16pm Jul 22, 2016 4:16pm
UVXY splits Monday, looks like it will be $30 post-split.....will be watching for the chains to fill out, takes some time....I rolled down VXX Jul 29 $14.5 long calls to $12.5 for 7c today.....I must be stupid....
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  • #13,935
  • Jul 22, 2016 4:33pm Jul 22, 2016 4:33pm
Nice Thread,
i just read first pages of this thread.
It interested me coz beside my scalping trades i do options trades as well just simple ones ( no managing portfolio)

good site for learning and tips for trades is www.tastytrade.com/tt/

and my tip for what kind of strategy. Vertical spreads mainly Put spreads .works for me the best.
just my 2cents
  • #13,936
  • Jul 22, 2016 5:05pm Jul 22, 2016 5:05pm
Quoting adriann
Nice Thread,
Hi Adriann, welcome. Feel free to post your trades and trade ideas.
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  • #13,937
  • Jul 22, 2016 9:47pm Jul 22, 2016 9:47pm
HLF ER's 8/3, in for 50c looking for >$1.00 net out, P/L modeled @ +5% iv
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  • #13,938
  • Jul 23, 2016 2:26am Jul 23, 2016 2:26am
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  • Jul 23, 2016 2:38am Jul 23, 2016 2:38am
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  • Jul 23, 2016 2:39am Jul 23, 2016 2:39am
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