Man AMZN action today was like the biggest Fade the gap I've ever seen. Open $105.94 (-11.7%) and Faded all the way up (+12.3% intraday) to $119 (ending the day -0.85%)
Generally this kind of After Earnings move is unheard of. And Thankfully my IC is still +9% from ITM at 130.
I really do...
CNBC can give you some good ideas from time to time but dont follow an anchor or person blindly.
Some earnings surprises/disappointments help me pick out better optionable candidates.
O911, I always wondered, on a money management note.
Does the firms give RManagers access to view everything (Greeks, $, position sizes, leverages, etc...)
New IC
AMZN AUG IC 135/130/90/85
Net Credit 0.33
Deltas were all the way out there at 6-8ish ten minutes ago.
+6.6% for 28 day hold with no earnings, I'll take it hopefully the market will keep in neutral for a little bit on AMZN
I was thinking about adding some Non-directional calendars in. Are you making sure the front month IV is really high comparable to the LTerm? recoup as much as you can that front month.
AMZN kind of predicted this earning too, with their this week early relesase of their Kindle and Ebook sales info. Apparantly Ebooks are out selling everything.
Every talking head on CNBC was like why did they release this info 5 days prior to their Earning report. They were trying to drum up...
ATM 120 Straddle nice call
On the Iron Condor Protection against earnings Put/Calls
Say I put on a IC AMZN AUG
150/140/100/90
NCredit 0.99 going into the close.
Which puts calls would you have reccommended?
Well today I took alittle bit of an adjustment beating.
10 IC
1 Bearish Call Spread Remain
+17.6 Since June 3 for AUG10 (Two Exp Month)
Today was Adjust down Nflx and Roll up the SPY Calls from 114/112 --> 118/116 I thought today we were going to see the 110 breakout and the 2% rule was in...
NFLX
145/135 --> 130/120 for ANOTHER ROLL additional NC $0.42
Went tighter than the usual +10 delta. I feel this Parabolic rate will slow down.
Im going to be watching the NFLX tomorrow. SPY CAlls are now 2% might roll them mout alittle for a small debit we'll see, I'm off to roll away.