Polycom Inc (PLCM) missed both earnings as well as revenue estimates and as of this writing, PLCM shares are down almost 32% !!! Options were pricing a 18-20% type of move and this was also part of my “potential movers” list that I shared before market close yesterday. So, with…
Undoubtedly GOOG earning play was a star trade generating over +800% gains in a day. It wasn’t sheer luck, we prepared ourselves for it. I shall share our exact trade after earning season is over as we plan to use similar strategies for AAPL and later for some more counters…
OPNewsletter delivered +8.46% for the Aug 2010 Income portfolio on a 51% portfolio capital investment. As you may know, since mid of April 2010 we reduced our capital allocation to trading as we were anticipating this market meltdown which started around 3-4th week of April. For Sept 2010 opened portfolios,…
Backspread Option Trading Strategy is one of my favorite strategies when it comes to playing large move and when I am not so sure of the direction. I like to play it especially when I am biased about the direction but I don’t want to take unnecessary risk. I first…
Goldman Sachs (GS) is down $40 since April 16th; How much more it has to lose? Anybody’s guess is probably better than mine. Regardless of whatever I think, I guess they are too big, powerful and connected to go under. With that bullish bias, here is a trade idea that…