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Benzinga's Options Outlook for the Week of July 29: Earnings Leave Markets in Odd State
Monday, July 29, 2013 - 10:37am | 249Read More...Markets have been in an odd state as so many earnings were reported last week. As mentioned in previous posts, it's important to stay ahead of the curve and not with the herd. Playing in front of earnings has shown to be high risk lotto picks at best. Many post earnings movers have been great for...
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How To Strangle Profits With An Options Strategy
Thursday, July 25, 2013 - 12:21pm | 937Read More...By: Maximo Cortese Options and their strategies offer many tools to the general investor, but all of the technical jargon can become overwhelming. Let’s look at two of the more helpful strategies, long and short strangles, and break them down for easier consumption. Long Strangles Just like...
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Options Trade Setting Up in Google (GOOG)
Wednesday, July 24, 2013 - 10:57am | 660Read More...Earnings season so far has been somewhat of a snoozer. There's been some hits and some misses and the market has kept on like nothing has happened. One of the more interesting misses was on Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Google announced earnings on July 18, which was a miss. The next day the stock...
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Benzinga's Options Outlook for the Week of July 22: Banks Are Catching Up!
Sunday, July 21, 2013 - 6:26pm | 194Read More...As expected from last week, markets continued the bid with the banks catching up, the big winner being Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), which was mentioned before reporting earnings the previous week, roaring over $14. In addition, many were able to play the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) move via volatility...
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Benzinga Options Outlook for the Week of July 15: Did You Buy The Dip Last Week?
Monday, July 15, 2013 - 7:20am | 176Read More...Markets have been super bullish pre- and post- FOMC minutes. As mentioned last week, the techs were the names to watch for all time high breakouts including Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), while the rest of the financial complex lagged. Bernanke...
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Benzinga Options Outlook for the Week of July 8: Sentiment to the Long Side
Sunday, July 7, 2013 - 9:15pm | 210Read More...Options for this week have finally started showing sentiment to the long side. We've seen a few big name stock hit new highs such as Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and Priceline.com (NASDAQ: PCLN). These were mentioned last week for dip buying opportunities once the markets started...
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Benzinga Options Outlook for the Week of July 1: Not a Delta One Trader's Environment!
Sunday, June 30, 2013 - 9:10pm | 254Read More...S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) has retraced a good amount since topping at 169.07, currently sitting around the 160.40 territory. Volatility traders have been doing the best in this environment, and with all this chop, it's very hard to find any type of daily follow-through with the gap-and-go, gap-and-...
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Extreme Return Naked Put Options
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 5:39am | 683Read More...It's hard to imagine that one can 'long' a stock, when the stock fell from above $8/share to less than $3/share, and yet returned almost 20% in half a year. If you think it's fiction, welcome to the world of extreme naked put options. The stock being referenced is China Medical Technologies, Inc...
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Introductory Guide to Options Strategies
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 7:04am | 1909Read More...Having read Benzinga's introductory guide to stock options, you must be wondering how these products can be used in a real financial situation. In this article, we will introduce various options strategies, and explain how they can be applied to your financial portfolio. Options strategies can...
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Options & Volatility Edge Gives a 93.1% Gain on Abercrombie & Fitch
Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 12:42pm | 117Read More...If you want to get trading ideas like this, subscribe to the Options and Volatility Edge today! Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) has popped today and Benzinga's Options and Volatility Edge subscribers who followed the Options and Volatility Edge advice had the potential to make a +93.1% profit...
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CSCO is Breaking a Downtrend That Started Back in February
Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 1:00pm | 76Read More...CSCO is breaking a downtrend that started back in February. The break is taking place on decent volume. We just set an alert at 16.10. If the alert sounds, we will do one of two things: Buy shares of CSCO and sell front month 17 Calls against them Buy a 15/16 front month Call spread
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Electronic Arts - When Laggards Give Surprises
Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 6:53am | 511Read More...In the past few weeks, we saw how high flyers like Coinstar (NASDAQ: CSTR), Cree (NASDAQ: CREE), and F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV) getting 20-25% downside punishment after earnings reports when they reported disappointment in earnings or revenues, or guidance. Once these stocks dropped, they...
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F5 Networks - Another Coinstar Moment
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 6:33am | 472Read More...As stated in last week's article, investors had reacted in two ways for earnings reports - Appeasements and Punishments. However, in the past week, there seemed to be more stocks with 'coinstar' moments, and one plunging stock can start dragging the whole sector. This is best illustrated by the...
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This Earnings Season - Appeasements and Punishments
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 5:55am | 785Read More...Since Aloca (NYSE: AA) kicked off the current earnings season on Jan 10, there were two distinct reactions to the results - Appeasements and Punishments. The current market sentiment and the two different reactions are best captured by this little story: Everyone is appeased upon getting an Apple...
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Benzinga's Cash Generator: Q3 Performance +275.07%
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 6:02pm | 135Read More...Benzinga's Cash Generator just had another great quarter, returning 275.07% during the third quarter of 2010. All positions are unrealized as the Cash Generator is mandated to hold options positions into expiration: • October (Expiring in 7 days) o Lulelemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU): +80.00% o...
