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This Iron Condor Option Trade In NKE Stock Could Return 33%
Monday, September 20, 2021 - 4:39pm | 525Read More...By, Gavin McMaster An iron condor is an income trade that profits when a stock stays within a specified range over the course of the trade. One key factor to look for when trading iron condors is a stock with high implied volatility. One stock that meets that criterion is Nike (NYSE: NKE). NKE is...
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3 Options Strategies For Roku Based On Its Historical Reaction To Earnings
Thursday, February 13, 2020 - 10:47am | 1045Read More...The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. Roku Inc (NASDAQ: ROKU) is due to report earnings for its December quarter on Thursday, Feb. 13 after the market close. Here are the...
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Is There Consumer Inflation In Switzerland? The Producer Price Index May Indicate So
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - 8:15am | 610Read More...A Producer Price Index (PPI) is a great indicator for revealing inflation in an economy. The reason being any increases manufacturers pay for goods and raw materials are usually passed on to the consumer, thereby creating an inflation indicator. Switzerland’s PPI has consistently...
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Economic Data, Bear-Bull Struggles To Keep Options And Markets In Ranges
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 10:16am | 706Read More...So much has happened, yet nothing has changed. The Federal Reserve's event is gone and so are most of the earnings, so now the focus is back to trading that thesis and some fundamentals while dodging the geo-political headlines. Recapping Last Week's Action Friday markets were all...
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Options Outlook For The Week Of May 26: Will Friday's Momentum Carry Over?
Tuesday, May 27, 2014 - 11:13am | 643Read More...Recap The week ended on a bullish note. All markets were in the green. Impressively the markets rose in the face of a falling TNX and rising TLT. For the past few weeks, this situation in the TNX and TLT would have caused a market sell off. Absent any negative headline from the Ukraine...
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Binary Events And Volatility
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 3:38pm | 606Read More...A trader facing a binary event -- such as an earnings date on a stock they are interested in, or FDA approval on a biotech stock -- may want to shy away from that event. Coupled with short-term Implied Volatility (IV) a trader may still be able to make a successful trade and have the results...
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Is Your Iron Condor Prone To Bulls Or Bears?
Thursday, February 20, 2014 - 4:30pm | 4599Read More...Traders who like to write iron condors -- the options strategies where, as Investopedia puts it, you buy and hold four different options with different strike prices -- should be on the lookout for different ways to setup these types of trades. Whenever I see a widening of the...
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To Add Puts Or Not To Add Puts....That Is The Question
Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 12:28am | 509Read More...We have received a few inquiries today and yesterday like this: “I was wondering if you might share your thinking with regard to adding a put spread to balance the call spread on our SPY position expiring April 16 [creating an Iron Condor]. Currently we're looking at a profit on the call spread,...
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Markets Lower For The Week, S&P 1300 Holds
Sunday, March 13, 2011 - 12:02pm | 820Read More...Broader Market Weekly Performance:Dow -1.05%S&P -1.28%Nasdaq -2.57%Russell -2.69%www.BookingAlpha.com Check out my latest interview on Benzinga and TraderInterviews.comMARKET UPDATE:This week all the major indices put in in reverse and headed toward their 50 Day Moving...
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SPY Iron Condor, GOOG & AAPL Update, & SPY Wedge Forming
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 10:21pm | 444Read More...Today's SPY Iron Condor was an opportunity trade. An opportunity to potentially scalp a nice profit off the SPY became available this afternoon with today's tight market trading range. This morning's volatility juiced this week's options and we jumped on the opportunity. Theta (time decay) took...
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Support & Resistance Cleary Defined
Sunday, March 6, 2011 - 10:41pm | 436Read More...Broader Market Weekly Performance:Dow +0.33%S&P +0.10%Nasdaq +0.58%Russell +0.37%VIX +3.25%www.BookingAlpha.com Check out my latest interview on BenzingaMARKET UPDATE:Another choppy week but the market ended up in the green. Last week's 2 sided market...
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Fill Report: GOOG Iron Condor & AAPL Adjustment
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - 8:12pm | 101Read More...AutoTrade Fill Report: Date: 03/03/2011 Trade: GOOG Iron Condor AutoTrade Broker Fill Status: eOption: Filled TradeMonster: Filled OptionsXpress: Filled InvesTrade: Filled GlobalAutoTrade/Int. Brokers: Filled TradeWallStreet: Filled TradingBlock: Filled TradeKing: Filled *All Brokers filled...
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Market Foolery & AAPL Strength
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - 9:18pm | 367Read More...AAPL released the iPad2 today and Steve Jobs even joined the party; his attendance was under speculation due to his recent health issues. The thinner, faster, dual camera device is already receiving rave reviews. The iPad 2 will go in sale March 2 in the US. Speaking of AAPL, our weekly Iron...
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01/07/11 Market Update
Friday, January 7, 2011 - 6:19pm | 323Read More...Market Update: Well, the jobs number was disappointing today. But, the market held up well considering the news of less jobs being created than anticipated. The Unemployment rate fell more than expected (which is a good thing) and that buoyed sentiment in the wake of the jobs data release. The...
