Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Wednesday's Prospects

Screening of the Tuesday, Oct. 18 markets identified 10 prospective trades.

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 channelN/A0
earnings24
volatility0N/A
stochastic-rsiN/A4

I shall make final trading decisions on Wednesday, Oct. 19.


Sweat Equity: Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body
by Jason Kelly


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


Options: Earnings

The dates are those of the events, all of them earns announcements. Events prior to the opening bell are marked "am", during the trading day "mid", and after the closing bell "pm".

Wednesday pm
AXP
EBAY
Thursday am
(none)

Shares: Earnings

The dates are those of the events, all of them earns announcements. Events prior to the opening bell are marked "am", during the trading day "mid", and after the closing bell "pm".

Wednesday pm
MAT
PKG
Thursday am
ICLR
LAD

Shares: Stochastic-RSI-80


ATSG
BAC
BANR
VALE


Notes

The current earnings season began on Oct. 11 with AA's release of earnings and will continue for six weeks.

I'm now holding a profitable iron condor on EBAY that expires in October. If the trade passes my full analysis, I shall add another EBAY position.

AAL has implied volatility that is within reach of qualifying. If it rises to the level of the 50th percentile or greater of its one-year range, then I shall do a full analysis.

-- Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Oct. 18, 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.

I can be reached via comments on Private Trader posts or by email at datnillc@gmail.com.

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