Posted on April 27th, 2023
Today’s education is on how to anticipate a potential future price move for a stock or ETF based on the pricing of that security’s option pricing. Many times, people use fundamental analysis projections to assess a percentage number a stock’s price may appreciate. The fundamental analysis is more often than not used for long-term price […]
Posted on April 21st, 2023
Yesterday’s article provided some base education on an options Implied Volatility (IV) and how it can move prior to an earnings announcement on the underlying. Today we will focus our discussion on what tends to happen to an options IV post the earnings announcement and how it may dictate you closing out that open options […]
Posted on April 20th, 2023
This article will discuss a component of an options price that can affect the overall price of the option and how knowing what happens to it when a stock is coming up on its earnings can help you set yourself up for a better chance of profit. The component is called Options Implied Volatility. Implied […]
Posted on April 18th, 2023
Have you seen this before? A stock you are invested in, or track reports its earnings for the latest quarter. It reports their earnings per share (EPS) is $1.02. The expectations were for an eps of $1.00. They also report their revenue for the quarter came in at $1 Billion. Their revenue expectations were 1.01 […]
Posted on April 17th, 2023
A Presidential Cycle is a term of 4-years. After 4 years they can either ride off into the sunset or run for a second term. Regardless whether they run or not, we want to focus our talk today on what comes of the financial markets performance the President’s third year in office. 3rd Year of […]
Posted on February 27th, 2023
How many of you watch a or multiple financial news networks? How many of you watch it with the sound off? That may seem like a funny question or us trying to be funny, but many do as there are time there can be so many people talking all at once and it gets difficult […]
Posted on February 23rd, 2023
I use the Morning Reports lists often and I imagine many of you are as well so long as you are continuing to study options trading education with me and are using the suite of software analytics that my software is. I am going to use the same image from my last lesson I gave […]
Posted on February 21st, 2023
You all have seen many articles highlighting the Morning Reports lists in my tools (www.tomsoptiontools.com). What I want to do real quick here is offer a bit of education for you all that reference these lists so you can have some idea on what strategy one can consider depending on which options list you choose […]
Posted on February 17th, 2023
When trading options like trading stock, there are times when the trade goes against you. The question is when to either stop out and preserve capital or add to the same options trade resulting to what’s known as dollar cost averaging. Here are some thoughts on that. Recent followers of my education know I highlighted […]
Posted on February 15th, 2023
Last year’s performance for the stock market was bearish and that’s an understatement really. The bear market has gone longer than the average length of a bear market, which is 9.6 months. Here are a couple of what I deem primary concerns the markets, the economy, WE faced in 2022. We had and still […]
