Tim Bovee, Private Trader

I have moved Private Trader from the Blogger platform to WordPress. The current URLs: On WordPress, for new posts: timbovee.com On Blo...

Blogger's, like yesterday, won't let me publish long-form posts. Going short.... I shall look at FNSR today as a potential earning...

Blogger is still not allowing me to close files properly through the browser interface, so I'm having to go through the iPhone app and s...

I entered three positions, two on my analysis and one based on a Dough  trade. The two earnings plays I entered are COST and HRB. I also ...

Blogger is trashed big time except on my iPhone, so briefly. Entered volatility play on XLF based on trade by Ryan at Dough -- www.dough.com...

Blogger won't allow me to publish full analyses, so in brief: I have entered an earnings play on COST structured as follows: JAN ser...

Blogger won't allow me to post full analyses. So, briefly: I have passed on CIEN as an earnings play because I can't get a wide enou...

I shall be looking at three potential earnings plays: CIEN, COST and HRB. By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Dec. 7, 2016

Screening of the Tuesday, Dec. 6 markets identified three prospective high options volatility trades. Three prospects will publish earning...

I completed the exit of my 440-day-old diagonal spread on UNG , and in updating the original post I ponder three valuable lessons. I ente...

iShares Russell 2000 ( IWM ) This trading idea came from Dough  trader Ryan. I shall use the JAN06 series of options, which trades for t...

Screening of the Monday, Dec. 5 markets identified no prospective high options volatility trades. Seven symbols from my pool have sufficie...

I analyzed XLU but declined to enter a position. By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Dec. 5, 2016 JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Sec...

Utilities SPDR ETF ( XLU ) I shall use the JAN series of options, which trades for the last time 46 days hence, on Jan. 20. Implied vola...

I shall look at XLU as a volatility play. I'm deferring analysis on the week's four potential earnings plays until Wednesday for CIE...

The week after the monthly jobs report is always a slow one in economics. There is but one major economics report coming up this week: Inter...