Posts Tagged ‘goog’

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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 [...]

• GOOG Earnings Trade Analysis
  stevenplace, October 19th, 2009 at 8:20 pm, Comments: 0

  After some “issues” selling vol in ADBE, RIMM, and ORCL… GOOG paid very well. Also, the stock is very fun to trade around earnings as it’s generally close to options expiration.
  After a strong run in price prior to earnings, I expected a tighter range than what the options were pricing in. So that meant selling [...]

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

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• October Expiration Review
  stevenplace, October 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pm, Comments: 0

  I took an hour and reviewed some of the calls I’ve made in the past couple videos, and I do say that they held up fairly well in this sort of volatility. I’m going to post them here just as a quick review.

  AN [Autonation]

  This is one of the only bearish positions that I [...]

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  IWO Video: Blood in the Streets (10-15-2008)
  stevenplace, October 16th, 2008 at 5:35 am, Comments: 0

  Bonus: Count the number of times I say “hopefully” and you’ll see my apprehension in this market.