Sweeping up after the latest looting spree in Chicago (photo via The Chicago Sun-Times).
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Awww, Nuts
It’s heartening to see that on a morning where the NQ is already up nearly 300 points (WTF???) that my “all-in” put position on Brazil (EWZ) is doing well. The ETF is down 1.81% as of this moment. My puts are up 25%, but I’m dreamin’ big on this one.
CRM Bullish Diagonal Trigger
This post is courtesy of our friend Ophir from TradeMachine Pro.
Today we use the new and improved version of a pre-earnings momentum strategy. This goes beyond just naked long a call, and gives the opportunity for two shots at momentum with one trade.
This custom strategy has shown higher win rates per stock across the constituents of the NASDAQ 100 over the last 10-, 5-, 3-, 2-, and 1-year than the straight down the middle bullish momentum call. Let’s take a look at the pattern in Salesforce.com Inc (NASDAQ:CRM) .
Logic Behind the Trade
The logic behind the test is easy to understand — in any market there can be a stock rise ahead of earnings on optimism, or upward momentum, that sets in the two-weeks before an earnings date. That phenomenon has been well documented by Capital Market Laboratories in our seminal webinar on market patterns.
(more…)The Confidence of Youth
They Underestimate Us!
I must say, I’m a little surprised how the volatility for gold isn’t expanding like mad. As we can see with Slope’s unique price animation cone, options volatility is just ambling along, not really taking notice (and clearly missed the boat on this huge run-up). Interesting and odd………
