#Earnings Sold to Open $ATVI Aug 4th 60 puts for 1.10 and 1.30. May add more if it continues to drop.

Biggest UP move: 18.9%, Biggest DOWN move: -7.9%, Average move: 5.8%. Upside bias +3.75%. This trade is -4.5% OTM.

#Earnings I think the only one I’ll be doing is a bullish trade on $ATVI, selling 60 puts. Order in for 1.10, which will fill only if this thing pulls back intraday. It is flying, as it has been for weeks and it’s earnings moves have been quite bullish.

I have never traded $AAOI but I see that it is also quite bullish. It has had strong moves on earnings in both directions, however, so a little leery on that one.

#Earnings Sold to open $DISH Aug 4th 62.5/64.5/65/67 iron condors for 1.25. Max risk .75. I placed the order earlier when DISH was around 64.75. It filled after a drop, so now this trade leans bullish.

Biggest UP move: 4.3%, Biggest DOWN move: -6.3%, Average move: 2.1%.

#Earnings Bought to close $GRMN Aug 4th 51/49 put spreads for .10. Sold yesterday for 1.00.

#Earnings This is a small trade, win or lose about $200. $ZNGA seems to be recovering from lows, so this is a play for a move up to 4.00+.

Bought to open (10) ZNGA Aug 4th 3.5 calls for .20. Biggest UP move: 12.7%, Biggest DOWN move: -15.8%, Average move: 7.3%. Breakeven +4.2% OTM.

#Earnings Bought to close $SHOP Aug 4th 80/110 strangles for .15 (legged out). Sold for 1.26 on Monday.

#Earnings GRPN long straddle didn’t work (needed a big gap) so I sold for .26. Bought yesterday for .62.

#Earnings I’m not taking this trade because I’m a bit light on buying power, but worth looking at for the Aug 18th options. That’s 17 days away, and the stock has not fallen more than 12% at any point after earnings, even up to 21-days after. The 200 puts are about 12% OTM. You can be even safer selling the 195 or 190’s. Also nicely below trend channel and 200 ma.

Here are 21-day stats: Biggest UP move: 8.7%, Biggest DOWN move: -5.9%, Average move: 5.0%.

#Earnings These orders are all in. May adjust prices if no fill comes soon.

$GRPN Buying the Aug 4th 4 straddle for .62. Biggest UP move: 29.0%, Biggest DOWN move: -26.3%, Average move: 16.0%. -1.59% negative bias. With stock at 3.76, this trade breaks even at +22.9% or -10.1%.

$GRMN Selling Aug 4th 51/49 put spreads for 1.00. Biggest UP move: 16.5%, Biggest DOWN move: -10.7%, Average move: 5.7%. +1.12% positive bias. Bullish chart.

$SODA Selling Aug 4th 57/55 put spreads for 1.00. Biggest UP move: 23.7%, Biggest DOWN move: -8.7%, Average move: 9.1%. A blistering +5.04% positive bias on recent earnings. Seems to be on a bullish run for over a year now.

#Earnings Here is info on the last 12 earnings moves (1 day) for $AAPL.
Biggest UP move: 6.5%, Biggest DOWN move: -6.6%, Average move: 4.1%. +0.54% upside bias.
May 2, 2017 AC -0.30%
Jan. 31, 2017 AC 6.09%
Oct. 25, 2016 AC -2.24%
July 26, 2016 AC 6.49%
April 26, 2016 AC -6.25%
Jan. 26, 2016 AC -6.57%
Oct. 27, 2015 AC 4.12%
July 21, 2015 AC -4.22%
April 27, 2015 AC -1.57%
Jan. 27, 2015 AC 5.65%
Oct. 20, 2014 AC 2.71%
July 22, 2014 AC 2.60%

With stock at 149.00, the 6.6% max move would be 139.21, and 158.79.

#Earnings Bought to close $EA July 28th 117 puts for .15. Sold yesterday in the 117/114 put spread for 1.40.

#Earnings BTC $EXPE July 28th 50 puts for .10. Sold yesterday for 2.05. Taking few chances on allowing anything to drop on me today.

#Earnings Swing and a miss for $AMZN, after opening at all-time highs yesterday, stock way down this morning on a fairly big earnings miss. EA also down, EXPE flat.

Everything looking under pressure today.

#Earnings I’ve held FSLR stock for a long time and a long ways down. Ready to unload it if these fill.
STO FSLR July 28th 48 call for .77
STO FSLR July 28th 49 call for .56

#Earnings Sold to Open $EA July 28th 117/114 put spreads for 1.40, with stock at 116.50. This was trading at 120 an hour ago. Bullish stock, decent r/r. (Max risk 1.60).

Biggest UP move: 13.7%, Biggest DOWN move: -7.5%, Average move: 5.9%. Upside bias: +2.46%

#Earnings It seems volatility is just too low to find any decent earnings trades today. Not even FB seems to have any premium worth going for.

#Earnings Bought to close $BA July 28th 215/210 put spreads for .10. Sold for 2.50 yesterday.

#Earnings Sold to open $BA July 28th 215/210 put spreads for 2.50. Finally filled after waiting all day so I could get the 1:1 trade. Bullish trade. Over last 12 quarters, Biggest UP move: 5.4%, Biggest DOWN move: -8.9%, Average move: 3.2%. This trade needs a 1.8% move up for max profit; 0.9% down is breakeven.

#Earnings Looking at an ATM put spread on $BA – bullish chart and bullish bias on earnings.

Can’t find a trade I like in $CMG, or anything that good on the rest.

Whadda you got?

#Earnings Pretty straightforward… Very small moves on earnings. I’m selling options that are fairly close to the money, and yet still outside it’s 12-quarter earnings move range. Biggest UP move: 2.2%, Biggest DOWN move: -2.6%, Average move: 1.1% . These strikes are 2.9% OTM.

Sold to Open $HCA July 28th 83.5/88.5 strangles for 1.20.

#Earnings $GOOGL has not been a big mover in the last few years, save for one large move up in July 2015. Looking at the last 12 quarters, the stats are: Biggest UP move: 16.3%, Biggest DOWN move: -5.4%, Average move: 4.3%.

If you remove the one 16% outlier, it changes to: Biggest UP move: 5.6%, Biggest DOWN move: -5.4%, Average move: 3.0%. You would have to go back to Jan 2012 for a move DOWN over 6%.

So, selling puts is safer than calls, and the range for either has been fairly tight, save for July 2015.

#Earnings After it peaked above 110 yesterday and I dumped my 103.5 shorts for .15 and taking a nice profit on this earnings trade, it just opened with a spike down to 101.00. Was able to sell one of my long 100 puts for .40. Pretty volatile stock, intraday. Might be worth watching for options trades.

#Earnings Bought to close $FIZZ July 21st 103.5 puts for .15. Sold in the 103.5/100 put spreads for 1.25 on July 12th. Rode through a dip below 95 before recovering. Good thing I had 7 days in the trade!

#Earnings Sold to Open $ISRG July 21st 900/875 put spreads for 1.15. Not a great risk/reward, but high probability given its mostly minor moves down on earnings, highly bullish chart and sector.

Over last 12 earnings, Biggest UP move: 17.7%, Biggest DOWN move: -5.6%, Average move: 5.7%. This trade is -6.7% OTM.

EDIT: you might be able to get more for this… bid/ask spreads very wide but I was filled immediately on mid price. Try for more premium and back your way down until filled.