Tim Bovee, Private Trader: Tuesday's Agenda

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Tuesday's Agenda

HRL's implied volatility moved higher and it qualifies for further analysis and perhaps a trade.

The other two prospects have overly low implied volatility, measured as a percentile of the most recent range. I require the 60th percentile or higher to pursue full analysis.

I added a fourth symbol, TGT, to the prospects list this morning after open interest of its options improved sufficiently to warrant a further look. However, it's implied volatility is also low.

The symbols and their implied volatility percentiles:

sym	range %ile
ADI	27
HRL	72
LOW	25
TGT	20

I shall proceed with a full analysis of HRL. The others are far enough out from qualifying that they won't require close watching during the trading day.

-- Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, May 17, 2016

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Tradecraft: Playing the odds to build winning stock market trades from options, a description of how I trade, can be read here.

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