Taking a play on the drop in Crude Oil prices and potential geopolitical uncertainties with a put sale in RIG which appears to be in a long term consolidation pattern Looking to sell a 52d 10 put for .64 to .68 this week
Sell the Feb 16 SHOP 100/95 Put Credit Spread for $0.65 or better, for a 13% (not counting commissions) return within 35 days.
Stop loss should be if the spread increases to $1.30.
SHOP has held the 61.8% retracement of the Sep 17 high to Oct 17 low and is clearing the way for higher moves.
Playing it with selling a put credit spread and receiving $65 for every...
Sell the $155 put for February for $0.55 or higher. Looks like it will be close if the market keeps selling off.
There is support around $160 at the 200 day SMA.
MU opened and closed below its 100 day SMA on the daily time frame. I can definitely see some more downside down to $39 and maybe even the 200 day SMA on the daily time frame, which is also the 50 day EMA on the weekly time frame.
Weekly chart:
Considering a $37 Feb put sale for a limit of $0.40 or better. I wouldn't mind owning shares in MU :-)
Facebook has earnings tonight and implied volatility is up for their options. I was able to sell a Feb Wk 1 172.50 put for .64. The IV was about 80%, so even with a small gap down the IV should be sucked out immediately in the morning.
PETS had a good gap down on earnings. They beat earnings, raised their dividend from .20 to .25 but traded down on their guidance. It is bouncing off the 20EMA a bit intraday. I do not mind owning shares down at $40 which is almost another 20% down, past the 50EMA/prior support, and would be right at the 100 SMA as well as more support. Let's see how it works.
This is a chart I made mapping out some Support/Resistance lines for HMC which is on a downward trend long-term. The Old Support / New Resistance candles, as well as Old Resistance / New Support candles, are all marked and match with a connection line displaying the correlation. There are 23"soon-to-be" bearish old support candles which I think will have bullish...
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Selling OTM spreads depends on a 75% success rate and surviving a few big losses. The RR is very low if you are aiming to collect 25% of the spread. I traded 12 months solely on BullPut and this has taught me well. It's a losing strategy based on the misconception of high win rate and...
SIMPLE STORY
Stock down on the back of disappointing earnings
Expect further weakness closer to the US open, as US institutions adjust their portfolios
This remains a quality defensive stock, quite compelling in the current toppish market context
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Selling the June 16 puts with a EUR 69 strike indicatively brings in some EUR 2.00/share, or...
BX Bottoming Process + High Vol Support + IPOs to Resume + Private-Equity / Venture-Capital to SUCCEED. Great Dividends. Put Sell and Call Sell while making money on Dividends. ALL of this without owning any apartments or hotels or office space. I am long the stock right now, but getting ready to do a Call sell on it since up move seems to have ended as of...
AKS Published good earnings 2 days ago
The stock made an intermediate high at $5.75 on this occasion
Today the company is announcing a stock issuance at $4.90
The stock price is down some 8% in adjustment to this news
Opportunity to SELL NOV 18 '16 $4.50 PUTS at c. $0.14/share
If exercised, the reward/risk will be a very compelling 2.8x
Adjusted for the risk...
Update on a upsloping trendline (blue) which acts as resistance
On the 5 hour chart, we should have generated a sell signal.
I still remain short via puyt spread 1x2s, as frost is no longer an issue. It appears the market is still digesting this from last week and should correct lower IMHO as physical supplies out of Brazil remain steady.
Warehouse stocks in...
KODK is circling the drain. Their balance sheet and quarterly income is very unimpressive; they don't look like the books of a company on a rebound but rather a company winding down operations. Q4 2014 they had $260m~ assets over liabilities, that number is down to a scant $75m~. During the same period, cost of revenue is down about 17% vs revenue being...
