Option Block 801: Using Straddles During Earnings Season

The Option Block · Apr 30, 2019 · 1h 2m

TRADING BLOCK

Most active equity options: DIS, BAC, AAPL, TSLA, GE, FB, COTY, INTC, TWTR, AMD

Earnings Highlights:

Monday - Spotify (before bell), Alphabet (after bell)

Tuesday - GE, McDonalds, Pfizer, Merck, GM, Apple

Wednesday - Qualcomm

Thursday - Activision Blizzard, Herbalife

Friday - Cboe

ODD BLOCK

Call love in Hartford Financial Services Group Inc (HIG)

Line-in-the-sand puts Nordstrom, Inc (JWN)

Put love in Qurate Retail Inc (QRTEA)

STRATEGY BLOCK

This week we discuss some thoughts on calculating the expected move of a stock going into earnings

MAIL BLOCK

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