Monday's Agenda

Six symbols from among the finalists and near-finalists listed on the Prospects post over the weekend qualify for a further look as volatility plays using options. I won't be trading all of them -- that would go against time diversification -- but I shall pick two out of the batch and trade them.

I shall look at the symbols with the highest implied volatility percentiles first, and then work my way down until I have two trades.

The list, in order:

sym	IV_Percentile
FE	66
VMW	63
PG	59
BMY	54
EBAY	54
T	52

My one shares prospect under my small-lots strategy, a price-channel breakout by FEIC, is off the table. The price whipsawed back below the channel and so no longer qualifies for a trade.

By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Sept. 12, 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.

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 for trading on a commission-free platform such as Robinhood Financial. See my initial post on the strategy here.

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