How well do you know your P&L charts? Good enough that you can quickly guess the underlying position? Take a look at the below and guess what it is (I’ll tell you later, try not to scroll and peek!): I know this isn’t really a hard one. Yes it is […]
Monthly Archives: August 2020
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When selling options, there is always a chance that the option owner can exercise early, leaving the option seller with stock that they weren’t anticipating – either 100 long shares if they sold a put, or 100 short shares if they sold a call. This can cause confusion, particularly if […]
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Betcha can’t eat just one. No really, don’t eat Intel’s chips. They are terrible. Worse than this joke. Back on July 23rd, Intel reported earnings. They beat Wall Street’s estimate by $0.12 ($1.23 vs. $1.11). They beat on revenue as well ($19.7B vs $18.55B). Earnings, revenue, net income, etc. all […]
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The Russell 2000 has lagged behind the S&P 500 and Well behind the Nasdaq 100 (pretty much everyone is lagging behind the QQQs…). This past week IWM (iShares Russell 2000 ETF) hit its highest levels since February. I had taken the opportunity to sell a call at the 156 level […]
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Probably an embarrassing thing to admit, but I *do* have memories of a calculator when I was growing up. In high school, we needed to have a graphing calculator and it wasn’t long before we realized we could load (basic) games on it and waste time rather than paying attention […]
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