Tim Bovee, Private Trader: Tuesday's Agenda

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Tuesday's Agenda

I'm looking at two prospects today: An earnings play on KORS and a non-event volatility play on GDXJ. GDXJ was selected under a change to my screening process, which I described in a post on Monday.

KORS fails to meet my liquidity criterion because open interest on its options are overly low on key strike prices for calls. I require 100 contracts or higher for the open interest. The call strikes I would need are in the double digits.

So I'm laying KORS aside and turning to GDXJ, an exchange-traded fund with high implied volatility relative to its range. However, GDXJ also fails on open interest.

Two prospects -- two fails. I don't intend to do further analysis on those symbols and don't anticipate opening new positions today.

-- Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, May 31, 2016

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References

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

Elliott wave analysis tracks patterns in price movements. StockCharts has a good explainer. The principal practioner of Elliott wave analysis is Robert Prechter at Elliott Wave International. His book, Elliott Wave Principle, is a must-read for people interested in this form of analysis, as is his most recent publication, Visual Guide to Elliott Wave Trading.

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