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[Options Premium] This Dog Barks

December 4, 2023

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record regarding "hard trades," but they just keep working. Look at COIN and UBER as examples.

Today's trade is in a software name that has two things going for it right now:

  1. it's hard.
  2. it's a potential "catch up" trade.

 

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[Options Premium] Line Go Up.

November 27, 2023

Ok, I took some liberties with today's title. I can already hear JC groaning. Blog post titles are not my strength. I accept this.

A book I recently read (Number Go Up), and today's trade in $LIN inspired my thinking about lines going up.

Moving on, let's get into what we like about this stock and how we're playing it with options.

 

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[Options Premium] Will the Next Leg Go Nuclear?

November 17, 2023

The Analysts here are getting all bulled up on Nuclear energy. And for good reason -- some good clean charts.

One of the sector leaderss is showing signs of resolving a base that began forming in September after an impressive doubling off the lows set this Spring.

Objects in motion tend to stay in motion (I heard this once in a high school science class).

The stock is cheap and we can leverage into it to really juice our gains with out-of-the-money call options.

 

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[Options Premium] Turning Garbage Into Gains

November 13, 2023

This is definitely a "hard" trade. Hard because it's already had a tremendous run this month. Hard because it's in a name that people often don't associate with big bull runs, in a sector that definitely isn't sexy.

And maybe we're early, positioning just about when it's about to take a pause or retrace to digest recent gains. Maybe.

The only way to find out is to get involved.

The hard trades pay precisely because they are hard.

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[Options Premium] The Other Side of the Coin

November 10, 2023

[12/4/23: updated stop to 100]

Crypto is showing signs of a resurgence. With Bitcoin trading north of $35,000 this week, many of the old bulls are coming out of the woodwork calling for the next crypto run.

Well, if the next run is soon at hand, today's trade is in a company that is certainly positioned to benefit from any uptick in sh*t coin trading volumes.

 

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[Options Premium] Selling Puts on a Name I'd Like to Own

October 27, 2023

If/when the market can find it's footing, today's trade is in a name that I'd like to get aggressively bullish in for a long-term bet.

In the meantime, I'm not ready to be aggressive yet, but there is an opportunity for us to get paid to wait with a conservatively bullish bet that gives us room to be wrong.

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[Options Premium] Betting on a Short-Term Bounce in Bonds

October 23, 2023

I'm making the bet here the Bond Bears may have overshot here. And today's trading action feels to me like $TLT put in an actionable level to lean against for risk management purposes.

This is not a bet that the final bottom is in for bonds. Only that odds favor a bounce that might have some legs.

With this caveat out of the way, here's how I'm going to play it.