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Huuuuh! Lemme learn debit spreads first. :confused: Fly indeed.

yUP! wILL SEE TOMORROW Got two paper trades on SODA in CALLS Buy 50 @ 2.90 sell 52.50 @ 2,00 For -$90 Buy 47.50 @ $4.40 Sell 55 @ 3.00 For - $140 See how it goes tomorrow.

Ryan Just got back from the beach and looking up and trying to follow along on the merits and demerits of SODA debit Spread for tomorrow report. I just looked at t 50 / 52.50 spread was -.90 cents. It does seem kind of expensive? I even thought of gambling with real money...

I was looking through the list of options earnings four days away. Thought I could catch a pre-earnings slope. After going through them all, I selected XLS and GCO. When I went to check their options, the bid ask spread was way too wide and didn´t seem worthwhile to trade? Even though...

Aiii yiiii yiiii ! Haven´t got a clue what you are talking about friend ATTICUS :)

Well I finally exited HAL with a loss. Thank heavens it was only 1 contract. I´m finding my favorite indicators that work on indexes don´t work on stocks. The stocks are more erratic. Going to have to go back to the drawing board. I looked at SODA. It seems to have quite a run up...

ryan Thankyou for taking the time to respond and clarify Ryan. In between other things, I´m collecting esoteric bits of information from all and sundry on these earnings pops. Let my subconscious work them over when I sleep.:confused: I find you can work these alternative ideas and...

Early morning hours. And playing with the debit spread calculators. I´m not too swift with these things. My complicated arithmetic showed a DEBIT SPREAD STRANGLE would lose money. Maybe not much, but making it worthless to do it. So direction is the key on an earnings pop. So the debit...

What amazes me, is I´m beginning to understand most of what you guys are talking about in jargon. :cool: Ryan has a puzzling point. Just read a couple of articles on this Earnings pop. Some examples using strangles and straddles Nobody is mentioning using a debit spread. So...

The beeeg question is sle, male or female? :D pcln earnings jump of 6% ? (I´m going to have to learn this stuff!) In the meantime, my HAL trade seems to be going bad. Not yet, but tomorrow? At least I´m confused on direction. Got a bet in, but after the close having second...

Scottmo I´m very curious about a strangle on an earnings pop. Tell me how it comes out? I had the feeling it would not make any money on a stock that pops only 2% or less?

Ryan Okay I´m back from my swim, shower and shave. Was looking at your comment again. Where exactly are you placing your debit spread? ITM, OTM or either side of the ATM? Not sure when I will get to running that on the spread calculator soon. Trying some what if, scenarios. There...

Ryan Thanks for the courtesy and effort on the explanation. I´m going to have to chew on that one a bit. Too much on my plate, but little by little. Close out my IYT puts for a little commission loss, but made good on the QQQ puts for over the weekend. Minimum contracts right now, as...

Babu I didn´t get your comment on the vertical? Can you explain a bit in more intricate detail please?

Ryan A Saturday morning. I was trying to figure out how you were using the debit spread on the earnings pops. I ran both the debit spread and the strangle through the calculator and it doesn´t look like either one makes much sense? The strangle less so, because the underlying...

Ha!Ha! Cute on the attachement. I don´t get the idea of the debit spread on an earnings pop? WHY?

Ryan Do you do STRANGLES on those earnings days? If so, is it your standard strangle, or do you go OTM two or three strikes?

Well I closed both qqq and CIXG on Thursday. Just got tired of it. Today friday, would have made money. Thursday I lost about -$280. Today late, Friday I am back in IYT and QQQ Puts for a next week exit I hope. Had to practice money management as I took a loss THURSDAY and dropped...

Did you deliberately do an opposing pairs trade, or was it accidental? I´m sweating out my QQQ´s that went down quite a bit, which I feel having just recently jumped into 10 contracts. Hoping to get out at breakeven or so. But doesn´t look like it.

Tough one that! The bear spread. Who said spreads are safer than direct gambling bets? Not so!