On last night’s All Star Options monthly conference call, we laid out a play to buy a potential bounce in a leading name in the materials sector. For completeness, the trade plan is below. [Read more…]
[Options Premium] March 2019 Conference Call Video Recording
This is the video recording of the March 2019 Conference Call for Members of All Star Options [Read more…]
[Options Premium] Shippers in Shallow Waters
If you’re of the mind that the broader stock market is set to top out soon, then it makes sense to start hunting for short selling opportunities amongst the weakest sectors. One sector ripe for this right now is the shipping sector. And one stock in particular is offering a rare opportunity to play the downside with straight long puts. [Read more…]
[Options Premium] Positions Review Headed into March Expiration
We’re headed into another monthly expiration cycle and its time to take some action on open positions with options expiring in March. Not going to sugar coat it — March positions have been challenging! [Read more…]
[Options Premium] Low Risk High Reward Play in an Old Stalwart
Don’t look now, but all-time highs are starting to pop up for some well known names. And after just completing the “hundred-dollar-roll,” we’ve got an old classic offering us a cheap opportunity to play for some outsized relative gains. [Read more…]
[Options Premium] Earnings Play
A stock we’ve had our eyes on since early February made new all-time highs last week and is showing signs that its upcoming earnings report will offer us a nice catalyst for quick gains. [Read more…]
[Options] Not the Right Environment for Income Trades
With nearly 55 days until April expiration, this is the time I start looking at index and sector ETF’s for possibilities in selling delta-neutral income spreads.
This is an exercise I do every month where I analyze the current volatility priced into each of the most liquid optionable ETFs and measure where each ETF sits within its most recent 90 day trading range.
Well, this afternoon as I went through my monthly analysis, it was determined that out of all of the major ETFs that I follow not a single one offered appealing volatility to sell into and each ETF was trading near the upper or lower end of its most recent trading range. This tells me that ETFs are continuing to trend — and a trend is not your friend when you are a delta neutral premium seller. [Read more…]
[Options Premium] More Upside in REITs?
The real estate arena has been on a wild ride since early December. The sector (as measured by $IYR, US Real Estate ETF), tumbled more than 13% in less than four weeks, only to completely retrace the move in the next four weeks then continue trudging higher as if nothing happened. The move has been nothing short of astonishing. We’ve made our bet on a fade with $IYR, but to cover our bases, we’ve going to take a flier on an individual stock in the space that offers us a nice reward-to-risk opportunity and will hedge our sector risk, somewhat. [Read more…]
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