The Week Ahead | 1/25/2021
What is going to happen in 2021. Find out on The Options Edge.
Is the Froth in our Coffee Cup a Bit too Happy?
The price of equity rises and falls with social mood. When people are happy and confident about the future, they tend to start businesses, invest in risky endeavors like stocks,…
AAPL: Apple Update
The Options Action crew took a look at Apple Inc. yesterday. AAPL stock is a Wall Street darling, of course, and we suspect it is part of virtually every institutional…
Close TLT Trade: Running Out of Time
The federal government's budget deficit is getting ever more prominent. If we were living in a free market system, interest rates would rise, and the economy would falter as the…
LAZR: Is there light on Iluminar?
Today we are going to talk about a company and its stock that, under normal circumstances, we would not discuss. That company is Iluminar. This article is for paid members…
MJ: Time for Another Toke?
In this past election, several states either decriminalized cannabis or outright legalized it. Those states are Montana, Arizona, New Jersey, Mississippi, and South Dakota. This article is for paid members…
The Week Ahead | 1/19/2021
The 4Q20 earnings season started las week, better times lie ahead in 2021. The outlook for the final quarter of f 2020 does not look good. Early reporters expect a…
USO: A Crude Trade (erata)
In today’s Options Action episode, Mike discussed a “neutral trade” in USO, the ETF that seeks to track crude oil’s price performance.
RXT: Return to the Rack Space
Rackspace Technology (RXT) is a company that went public in early August. Hard to believe, but the company was not well received on its IPO. Very strange for a company…
XOM: Exxon Mobile (Updated)
The traditional form of energy, hydrocarbons we call them, are on the way out. Electricity is the new black. But there are still a few problems. 98% of all cars…
Options Expiration (Updated)
Standard monthly options will expire this Friday. We have 14 open trade suggestions, with at least one leg of the trade structure coming due at the end of the week.…
The Week Ahead 1/11/2021
One of the towers that were holding this market up was destroyed last week when the Georgia Senate race was won by the Democratic Party. There is a short-term benefit…