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This is the video recording of the August 2018 Conference Call for Members of All Star Options

The Agribusiness sector might not often be thought of as sexy, but it is threatening to break out above 2008 highs (as measured by the Agribusiness ETF $MOO) and individual names are starting to look pretty compelling. As such, we're on the hunt for...

I won't pretend to know anything about medical devices, how they're built, or why they work. But that doesn't mean we can't profit in the sector.

The Medical Devices sector as a whole is trading at all time highs, and one particular name is...

51 days until expiration is the sweet spot for putting on delta neutral income trades. "Income Trades" are best established in underlyings experiencing elevated levels of volatility (resulting in higher options prices), but that are stuck within a...

The last two trading days (Thursday-Friday July 26-27) have been somewhat challenging for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq. But there was some relative strength in the financials, in particular, American Express $AXP which last week printed a new all-time...

As a group, the semi-conductors sector has been underperforming this year, but signs are pointing to an upward trend declaration soon. This isn't a wildly bullish announcement, but neither do we need to be wildly bullish to make money on a mildly...

Texas Instruments $TXN appears to have authored no surprises in their quarterly earnings call on Tuesday afternoon, announcing well telegraphed results (following a recent CEO shakeup) that had basically no effect on share prices in the after-hours...

In the latest monthly conference call for All Star Charts subscribers, JC lays out a compelling case for being long leaders in the...

JC is fond of trades that offer asymmetric return opportunities (who isn't, really?). And we've got a potential beauty setting up in Abbott Labs $ABT.

With earnings out of the way and a direction loudly declared, we've got a screaming...

I have a Google Home at my house and we ask it questions all the time. I asked: "Hey Google, do we really need to call google Alphabet?" and she responded: "Sorry, I don't understand the question."

Yeah, me neither.

In case...

You see what I did there? The title of this post is a play on the stock we're about to put an options play on -- Workday $WDAY. You're welcome. I'll be here all week. Tip your bartender.

It's summer time. Sometimes during dull market action we...

We are in the tricky part of the quarterly cycle where upcoming earnings warrant caution on options trades in individual names. Premiums...

This is the video recording of the July 2018 Conference Call for Members of All Star Options

Perhaps it's the overwhelming number of afflicted Bears coming in to emergency rooms, pharmacies (for pain meds), and therapists couches across America that is fueling the continued bull market in healthcare stocks? Interesting thought.

But we...

Jack Dorsey, CEO of both Square $SQ and a little-known company named Twitter $TWTR, is having a pretty good year. How good? Well, in the last 365 days, $SQ is up 177% and Twitter is up a more modest 158%. Boy, the sentiment in these two names...

With two weeks to July expiration, it's time to review our July positions that will be expiring soon and take any actions that are necessary to reduce risk or take profits. This is the time of the cycle when the theta cost of our long premium plays...

With earnings for Apple coming up on July 31, there's just enough time, worthwhile juice, and a significant price level to lean against in order to potentially bite off some quick profits in $AAPL while limiting our downside risk. Since we don't have...

The running metaphors for Nike $NKE stock are too obvious, so I'll do my best to avoid them. However, it cannot be denied that last week's monster gap higher coming out of earnings has launched the stock around the final turn and it is now sprinting...

...FEED them.

Continuing with a theme that emerged for us this week, we're taking recent volatility climbs as a gift to help us get through a typically slow summer trading period. Weeks like this one -- just ahead of a holiday week -- are the...

I feel like the recent minor skirmishes in U.S. stocks over the past week have been a nice little gift for premium sellers heading into what is a traditionally the slowest period of the calendar year. With the Independence Day holiday on the horizon,...

Last week, Tom Bruni penned a post titled Global ETF Carnage Continues, highlighting how ETFs representing stock markets around the world have been getting hurt by US...

If you're like me, you think ATM charges are a crime. And one of the worst offenders is Chase, part of JP Morgan's umbrella. It's time we make them pay us back for all the ATM fees they've stolen from us for the privilege of having access to...

AMD has had a tremendous run off this April's lows, where it bottomed out around $9.00. Today, it's trading north of $16. That's a greater than 75% move in about 11 weeks. Wow.

But we have some very important technical and supply-and-demand...

Google is making a run at a big fat round number - 1200 -- which would also be a new all-time high, and time is of the essence to get aboard what could be a rocket ship ride much, much higher. We don't have much time to waste so I'll just cut right to...