Friday's Prospects

Screening of the Thursday, Sept. 8 markets identified three prospective trades out of the two datasets and four strategies that I'm using.

This week, for options trading, I reviewed nearly 500 symbols in my large-cap stocks and exchange-traded funds, and for share trading, I reviewed nearly 1,000 symbols of stocks and funds of all capitalizations. For both I reviewed 77 companies publishing earnings.

I use four strategies in my trading, in response to trading signals (such as breakouts above the 20-day price channel), high implied options volatility, and persistently rising trends on a charts signaled by the stochastic-relative strength index indicator, and in anticipation of events ( such as earnings announcements).

	options	shares
price channel	N/A	0
earnings	0	0
volatility	1	N/A
stochastic-rsi	N/A	2

I shall make final trading decisions on Friday, Sept. 9.

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Below are the candidates for analysis for each cell of the quadrant.


Options: High IV

VMW

Shares: Stochastic-RSI

OUTR

CMLS

Notes

The next earnings season begin in mid-October.

Options: High IV. SYF is within one percentile of its annual implied volatility range of qualifying for further analysis and perhaps a trade. I'll check it on Friday to see if it is in the 50th percentile or above.

Shares: Stochastic-RSI. My experimental small-lots account is fully committed and I shall be unable to trade any shares within it unless I get some sell signals on Friday.

-- Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Sept. 8, 2016

References

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

Small Lots: A new strategy discusses the thinking behind the analysis that identified these trades and can be read here. The symbols noted in this post are intended fortrading on a commission-free platform such as Robinhood Financial.

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Tim Bovee, Private Trader tracks the analysis and trades of a private trader for his own accounts. Nothing in this blog constitutes a recommendation to buy or sell stocks, options or any other financial instrument. The only purpose of this blog is to provide education and entertainment.

No trader is ever 100 percent successful in his or her trades. Trading in the stock and option markets is risky and uncertain. Each trader must make trading decision decisions for his or her own account, and take responsibility for the consequences.

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