Boeing (BA) Take the Money and Run
Boeing is one of those investment ideas where we have had a strong opinion. The narrative in the financial press is that the issues with respect to the 737-Max-8 will…
Tesla Trade Modification (TSLA)
Mike discussed a bearish trade structure on TSLA stock back in late January on Options Action. The share price had ripped higher in previous day's trading and Mike put together…
SPY: Time to Adjust the Volatility & Crash Trades
Well, that did not take long. In our post on 25-February-2020, we noted that an important bullish trend line was decisively broken to the downside. Our initial reaction was that…
What’s Next for Gold (GLD)
If you listen to the mainstream financial media and the "gold bugs," you might hear the argument that the price of gold is increasing because of the Wuhan virus and…
SPY Update: Equities Catch a Flu and What is the Investor to Do?
Yesterday, the equity market took it on the chin. The DJIA, SP500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000 all fell by at least 3%. The headline number was the drop in the…
The Week Ahead | 2/24/2020
Coronavirus Spreads Outside China. Chains of COVID-19 infection in secondary and tertiary countries are posing increasing risks globally. South Korea saw a massive spike in its total infections through the…
Did Morgan Stanley (MS) Buy the Top?
Morgan Stanley (MS) announced that they would buy E*Trade (ETFC) in a transaction valued at about $13 billion. To help ensure a deal gets done, both parties have agreed to…
Trade Management Fifth Third Bank (FITB) & iQIYI (IQ)
We like to share a number of different strategies here at theOptionsEdge.Com, so our readers become familiar with most if not all the ways one can use options to score…
Options Expiration 21-Feb-2020
Standard monthly options are set to expire this Friday. We have 8 trades that we have discussed over the past few months that have not been closed out and are…
The Week Ahead | 02/17/2020
Coronavirus Update. Hubei province, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak that has killed at least 1,380 people in China and sickened at least 68,850, hopes that some business will be able…
Earning Trade: ViacomCBS (VIAC)
ViacomCBS will be reporting earnings next week on Thursday, Feb 20. This will be the first earnings announcement following the merger of Viacom with CBS which were both majority-owned by…
Will the S&P500 or NADSAQ Ever See a Bear Market
Ever since Q4-2019, stock prices have just gone up. The "Buy the Dippers" seem to have taken control of the price of the most stocks and therefore the major average.…