GPRO Analysis

The wearable and mountable camera maker GoPro Inc. (GPRO), headquartered in San Mateo, California, publishes earnings after the closing bell on Tuesday.

[GPRO in Wikipedia]

GPRO

Ranges

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GPRO at 11 a.m. New York time, 30 days hourly bars

Implied volatility stands at 60.7%, which is 5.6 times the VIX, a measure of volatility of the S&P 500 index. GPRO’s volatility stands at the top of its most recent rise.

Ranges implied by options and the chart

Week	SD1 68.2%	SD2 95%	Chart	Earns
Upper	71.47	83.54	61.77	68.25
Lower	47.33	35.26	49.40	50.55
Gain/loss	20.3%	40.6%

Implied volatility 1 and 2 standard deviations; chart support and resistance, maximum earns move
The Trade

I shall use the AUG monthly series of options, which trades for the last time !0 days hence, on Aug. 21.

Iron condor, short the $70 calls and long the $72 calls,
short the $50 puts and long the $48 puts,
sold for a credit and expiring Aug. 22.
Probability of expiring out-of-the-money

AUG	Strike	OTM
Upper	NA
Lower	NA

Implied volatility on GPRO is extremely high, which makes for a very wide range that must be covered by the profit zone. I give top priority to the width implied by past movements immediately after earnings are published, and have filled in a proposed iron condor that would cover that range.

However, strike prices on the AUG series of options only go to $66.50, with a 74.9% probability of expiring out of the money for maximum profit, and $52, with a 70.5% probability.

Weekly options expiring sooner either have no improvement in the coverage or, in a few cases where the strikes go up to $80, lack sufficient open interest to support a trade.

Bottom line: GPRO's liquidity is too low for my purposes because it produces an insufficiently wide options grid.

Decision for My Account

I'm declining to trade GPRO because of the liquidity isn't high enough.

-- Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, July 21, 2015

References

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