Posts Tagged ‘straddle’

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

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

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

  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 resulting price action [...]

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

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

• Breaking Down an Anti-Volatility Play on Office Depot (ODP)
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on May 11th, 2011 at 1:21 pm, Comments: 0

  Corporate supplies concern Office Depot $ODP has bucked the broad-market trend lower today, after FBR Capital upped its price target to $7 from $6.50 and [...]

• Four Strategies to Make Money This Earnings Season
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on April 6th, 2011 at 1:38 pm, Comments: 0

  Yep, it’s that time of year again — blue-chip behemoth Alcoa Inc. $AA is set report its quarterly earnings on Monday, marking the unofficial start [...]

• Rolling the Dice on a Post-Earnings Retreat with a Hypothetical Strip on Research In Motion (RIMM)
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on December 15th, 2010 at 1:56 pm, Comments: 0

  BlackBerry behemoth Research In Motion Limited $RIMM will take the earnings reins after the closing bell tomorrow. Analysts, on average, are expecting the firm to [...]

• The Strap: How Jittery Bulls Can Bet on a Post-Earnings Breakout for Best Buy (BBY)
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on December 8th, 2010 at 1:35 pm, Comments: 0

  Electronics retailer Best Buy Co, Inc. $BBY is slated to confess its third-quarter figures before the opening bell on Tuesday, Dec. 14. Historically speaking, the [...]

• The Must-Have Options Strategy for Earnings Season
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on October 6th, 2010 at 12:09 pm, Comments: 0

  Blue chip bigwig Alcoa Inc. $AA will unofficially kick off the third-quarter earnings season after the closing bell tomorrow. As such, I thought it only [...]