#Earnings BTC $JD Aug 18th 42 puts for .05. Sold last Friday for .62 (avg price)

#Earnings JD.com reports Monday AM. They have a fairly bullish chart and bullish results on earnings.

Sold to Open $JD Aug 18th 42 puts for .60 and .67. May add a couple more if premium increases.
Biggest UP move: 11.4%, Biggest DOWN move: -7.4%, Average move: 4.8%. This trade is 8.5% OTM.

#Earnings Bought to close $TTD Aug 18th 45/40 put spreads for .20. Sold yesterday for .80.

#Earnings BTC $NVDA Aug 11th 155 put for 2.37. Sold yesterday for 2.27. Small loss, but nice profits on the multiple 150 puts, so all’s good. Don’t feel like taking assignment in this market, even of only 100 shares.

PLCE is another story. Got until next Friday for recovery to 110. Will keep an eye but no plans to close today.

HCA may have bottomed out this week. Up over 1% today in a weak market. I was assigned shares, recovery above 81 for breakeven.

#Earnings A pretty good earnings report, but going with the market… 1-min cart so far matches the SPX 1-min chart. I will be closing early with profits.

#Earnings I don’t know this stock and it’s a fairly new issue. It has moved steadily up since IPO. Only three earnings reports; two positive, one slightly negative but recovered within a week. I am using a spread because it is too new and unknown to risk naked.

Sold to Open $TTD Aug 18th 45/40 put spreads for .80. Biggest UP move: 30.1%, Biggest DOWN move: -2.8%, Average move: 13.9%. My short strike is -11.8% OTM, with stock at 51.00.

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#Earnings Sold to Open $NVDA Aug 11th 150 puts for 1.42 (avg price), and one (1) 155 put for 2.27.

Biggest UP move: 29.8%, Biggest DOWN move: -7.4%, Average move: 10.9%. These strikes are -10.7% and -7.7% OTM respectively (with stock at 168.00).

#Earnings starting to sell Aug 11th 150 puts before it bounces too much

#Earnings Bought to close one (1) $W Aug 11th 80/75 put spread for 4.95. A nickel less than expiration. I will try to close the rest for less.

#Earnings It looks like $W is a bust, and $PLCE under pressure, too. Wayfair suffers from mediocre earnings report, a weak market, and then more weak retail earnings last night.

#Earnings Bought to close $NVDA Aug 18th 180 call for 5.30. Sold on June 8th for 4.40. I’ll do an earnings trade tomorrow by selling puts, not calls.

#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.