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• 4 Option Plays for Earnings Season
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on October 19th, 2011 at 1:43 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Yep, it’s that time of year again: earnings season is in full swing. As most of you already know, these notable events [...]

• A Low-Risk, High-Reward, Directionally Biased Volatility Play
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on October 5th, 2011 at 12:31 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits With Wall Street on a virtual roller-coaster ride (as evidenced by the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s $DJIA eleventh-hour turnaround yesterday), many investors [...]

• Use Rich Premiums – and Stagnating Price Action – to Your Advantage
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on September 21st, 2011 at 1:31 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits In the simplest terms, the recent ascent of the CBOE Market Volatility Index $VIX indicates that speculators are shelling out more for [...]

• Two Low-Risk Plays for Conservative Option Bulls
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on September 7th, 2011 at 12:32 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits The Dow Jones Industrial Average $DJIA is on pace to snap its streak of triple-digit drops today, as Wall Street waxes optimistic [...]

• Supplement Income On a Stagnating Stock with Covered Calls
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on August 31st, 2011 at 12:06 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits The ratio of new annual highs to new annual lows has dwindled significantly in August, as broad-market headwinds have stalled the momentum [...]

• A Single-Strike Play with a Slightly Larger Carrot on the Upside
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on August 17th, 2011 at 1:08 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits In one of my most recent StockTwits contributions, I dissected the lesser-known strip strategy, which is a bearishly biased version of the [...]

• Tipping That Pre-Earnings Volatility Play to the Bearish Side
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on August 3rd, 2011 at 11:38 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Poultry behemoth Tyson Foods $TSN will step up to the earnings plate bright and early on Monday. Ahead of the event, Credit [...]

• A Directionally Neutral Way to Make Money on an Earnings Move
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on July 20th, 2011 at 1:09 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Earnings season is officially underway, with a mob of Wall Street notables waiting in the wings. One such company is Texas Instruments [...]

• Dissecting a Theoretical Volatility Play for 2Q Earnings Season
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on July 13th, 2011 at 12:30 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Earlier this week, blue-chip bigwig Alcoa Inc. $AA unofficially commenced the start of second-quarter earnings season. (As a side note, the stock’s [...]

• Getting to Know the Lesser-Known Greeks
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on July 6th, 2011 at 1:25 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Most seasoned option speculators are familiar with delta, which is the percentage of the price movement in the underlying stock that will [...]