Lessons from my bad trade in INCY call options in my Volatility Portfolio
Wow. That sure didn’t work the way I intended. Back on May 23 I added the July 21 $140 calls on Incyte (INCY) to my Volatility Portfolio. Those calls traded at $7.10 that day. As I wrote in my post that day, to make money on these options, I’d need to get a move of $4 or so to move the share price above $140 and to move the options into the money. My logic at the time was pretty simple.
Nervous market has been hard on Nektar; hold options in my Volatility Portfolio for September news (and beyond)
Biotechs--and indeed any high price-to-earnings stocks perceived as risky--have taken more than their share of punishment in the nervous sell off of the last few weeks. Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), for example, closed yesterday August 21 at $17.79. That's down from...When oil gives us a trading range, maybe we ought to trade it–here’s one trade using options that I’ve tested recently
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Volatility is absent in the S&P, but pops up in the NASDAQ ahead of tech earnings
I’d call the market mood “odd” right now. It’s maybe “hopeful fear.” Or maybe “fearful hope.” Nobody wants to move to the sidelines in case the rally is going to continue. Nobody wants to be too long just in case we’re looking at a pullback or correction. The focus of this uncertainty is the big technology stocks of the NASDAQ
Risk is like an onion
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Tech slide continues casting doubt on “buy on the dip” strength
Anyone who bought technology stocks on the dip last Friday and Monday is feeling unhappy today. And that spells a worried market. Especially since key stocks in the sector such as Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN) are showing signs of breaking through important support. The NASDAQ Composite Index is off 0.93% today as of 12:30 p.m. New York time.
Adding Incyte call options to my Volatility Portfolio on short-term news flow
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Rebuying Nektar Therapeutics in my Volatility Portfolio–this time using options
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Volatility collapses today–what do you do about that if anything?
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Volatility (and the VIX) might be a “buy” in the next few days
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Volatility index VIX sets new higher high today
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