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It's All About Timing

It's All About Timing

Playing earnings or playing the strike - know when to pick your spots.

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Mark Phillips
Aug 27, 2024
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A classic cartoon-style scene featuring an animal, such as a fox or a cat, crouched and ready to pounce like a predator. The animal has exaggerated features, wide eyes, and is intensely focused on a vintage computer screen displaying stock charts. The computer is large and bulky with glowing green charts. The overall setting has a retro vibe, resembling an old financial office. The scene captures the anticipation of the animal trading during a volatile market event, with a playful and nostalgic cartoon feel.

Today we’re going to turn our sort upside down, and look for a minimum level of dividend yield (3%) but then find the names with the highest implied volatility that meet that. This is pushing out the risk spectrum, and these scenarios are ideal for opportunistic trades, rather than investment structures. 

We have an earnings structure in BBY that gives a favorable risk/reward, as well as a watchlist item in SIRI. If stock approaches strike there, covered call dynamics change a lot with a low dollar name.

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