Most active indices: VIX - 138k, SPY - 800k, SPX:477k
Most active active equity options: GE, JD, SQ, AAPL, TSLA, CELG, NIO, LLY, BAC, BMY
Earnings:
Monday - Etsy, Shake Shack
Tuesday - Home Depot, Macy’s
Wednesday - Lowe’s, Best Buy, Square, Hewlett Packard, Box, Fitbit
Thursday - Nordstrom, JcPenney, Gap, Dell, Crocs
Friday - Foot Locker
ODD BLOCK
Call love in Dell Technologies Inc (DELL)
Call overwrite in Fitbit Inc (FIT)
Call overwrite plus puts in General Electric Company (GE)
MAIL BLOCK
#QOTW: We'll keep it simple to wind down the week. What is your go-to #options strategy right now? Don't see your fav on the list? Reply/DM with your suggestions.
- Long Call/Put/Vertical
- Short Call/Put/Vertical
- Fly/Iron Fly/Condor
- Calendar/Diagonal
Question from Ben K. - You guys were talking about getting your short spy calls called away on a recent episode. Is that something that occurs often and I should be concerned about it?
Comment from Olive Trader - A long straddle in gold didn’t work for me. You had good points about scalping. My loss has been really small, and I’ve had a few good trades going that this year.
Comment from Mark Bryant - I hope cannabis futures will be coming soon. I hope I can get options on cannabis futures.
Question from Nashly - Is there the same bias towards puts in most futures options that we see in equity options?
Question from Tag Analysis - What’s the difference between a slide and a shift when it comes to skew? Aren’t they the same thing?
What is it. What is it useful for? What is it no useful for? How do you make a straddle more useful?
THE BUZZ
January numbers are in: Second highest volume January in history
OFFICE HOURS
Question from Euro 2 Zero - How do you play earningsthat has a lower IV rank (30 day) than IV Percentile (52 Week) Ex. $OKE
Question from Bantam Tom - Do most advisors out there primarily trade options in IRAs?
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