Posts Tagged ‘volatility’

• Volatility and Earnings
  Posted by admin on November 11th, 2011 at 9:01 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits By: Joe Burgoyne, Director, Options Industry Council The quarterly corporate earnings cycle and market volatility can provide investment opportunities for options traders. [...]

• 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 [...]

• Understanding Volatility and Its Impact on Options
  Posted by admin on August 26th, 2011 at 3:18 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Guest Post by Joe Burgoyne, Director, Options Industry Council. According to Dictionary.com, volatile is defined as “tending or threatening to break out [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

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

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

• Dissecting a Theoretical In-the-Money Strangle on Dendreon Ahead of Earnings
  Posted by Andrea Kramer on April 27th, 2011 at 1:08 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Biotech bigwig Dendreon Corporation $DNDN will step up to the earnings plate on Monday, May 2. Historically speaking, the firm has confessed [...]

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

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