Posts Tagged ‘aapl’

• Market Wrap, 2-1
  stevenplace, February 1st, 2010 at 8:53 pm, Comments: 0

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• AAPL Earnings Trade Analysis
  stevenplace, January 26th, 2010 at 11:43 am, Comments: 0

  This has been an eventful earnings season so far for IWO– we’ve taken a couple trades in GOOG (win), ISRG (scratch), and GS (loss, still open). I wanted to go ahead and breakdown what I saw with $AAPL going in.
  First, on a purely sentimental observation, there was entirely too much anticipatory noise coming into this [...]

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  How Option Expiration Turned Out for My Subscribers
  stevenplace, December 21st, 2009 at 1:11 pm, Comments: 0

  I love opex. Equity options have very interesting characteristics like discontinuities in gamma and very fast theta (time decay).
  So when opex comes around, I provide my subscribers with a list of ideas for trading that day– this month we focused strictly on option selling with 1 day left. I also provided a video explaining the [...]

• December Trade Review
  stevenplace, December 18th, 2009 at 3:00 pm, Comments: 0

  A couple things to note:

  This doesn’t take into account commissions. So if you have some absurd commission structure with your broker (2.50/contract + 8/trade) then your return is significantly diminished.
  These fills are not necessarily the fills that the market gave to subscribers. Sometimes there was a much better fill 30 minutes after I put the [...]

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  Midday Update for Jul 16th
  stevenplace, July 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am, Comments: 0

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• 3 Trade Ideas for Next Week (part 2) AAPL
  stevenplace, February 6th, 2009 at 7:11 am, Comments: 0

  The next possible trade I want to look at is a little more speculative so you need to figure out if this risk is appropriate for your portfolio and trading style. Do note I’m writing this before employment so the entire scenario could change. There’s a lot of short term conditionals I’m waiting on for [...]

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  AAPL Trade Idea #3: An AAPL LEAP Calendar Spread
  stevenplace, January 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pm, Comments: 0

  Here’s the final installment in my omg-steve-jobs-is-dying-noone-will-buy-iphones trade. These are bullish contrarian plays so you need to manage risk accordingly. This final strategy is a little more risky and requires some better stock timing. I’m highlighting the overall strategy, so although there are specific price points they may not be the best entries or exits.
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• AAPL Trade Idea #2: Selling a Bullish AAPL Straddle
  stevenplace, January 15th, 2009 at 2:06 pm, Comments: 0

  This is trade 2/3 on AAPL that I’m going to give out. This one is catered to a much longer timeframe so you should consider this trade in AAPL more of an investment than a trade. There is much downside delta risk but it’s similar to stock. Here’s the trade:
  Sell AAPL Jan 10 120 Straddle [...]

• AAPL Trade Idea #1: Selling AAPL Puts
  stevenplace, January 15th, 2009 at 9:44 am, Comments: 0

  I mentioned yesterday on stocktwits that I was going to be covering 3 possiblities for the dead-steve-jobs trade. Currently the stock is off 5.5% and looks like it could be heading lower. The markets are broken and the internals are currently weak, so be careful. These are countetrend plays so manage risk accordingly. Here’s the [...]

• New AAPL Trade Ideas: Calendar and Straddle Spreads
  stevenplace, January 5th, 2009 at 8:58 am, Comments: 0

  New AAPL trade idea: AAPL is up on the announcement that Steve Jobs is immortal. This looks like a good sell the news scenario, so here’s a couple ideas.
  Sell -1 AAPL 95 Straddle 8.05.
  That puts your breakeven around 87 and 103 in a couple of weeks. This play is assuming that the stock will chop [...]