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Welcome to Option$lam.com
What Moves Markets? There are many factors which affect the prices of stocks and options. From geopolitical and world economy news and events, to more localized news, events and rumors regarding individual companies and stocks. For example, there are law suits, court hearings and judgments. There are Federal Drug Administration announcements and decisions. There are analyst upgrades and downgrades. There are stock splits, and dividend news, takeovers, mergers, and many others. There are truly too many to mention here. Any of these events can cause dramatic price fluctuations in a very short period of time.
Yet there is one stand out event which affects stock prices more so than any other. You see, all publicly owned companies are required to report their earnings quarterly. Consequently four times per year every publicly traded stock on the three major US stock exchanges must make a prescheduled public announcement of their most recent quarterly earnings to keep investors, traders, and other interested parties apprised to the company's performance and profitability. Many times these announcements will also include forward looking statements and estimates of expected future earnings and performance. These Earnings Release announcements and their accompanying conference calls are highly anticipated thereby causing much commotion around stock prices. Investors and traders are watching closely for insight into possible price fluctuations and direction at these crucial tipping points.
Here at Option$lam.com we are interested in all the above mentioned trading opportunities. However, our primary focus revolves around the Earnings Release announcement. Unequivocally, the main event which moves stock prices year after year, and quarter after quarter, is the Earnings Release Announcement and its accompanying Conference Call. These events are powerful and capable of moving market price suddenly and dramatically. Large price moves of stock such as 10%, 20%, and often times much more are not uncommon upon the Earnings Release announcement. These huge changes in price can happen literally over night. For traders, large price movements such as these, especially when they happen in such short periods of time translates directly into huge opportunity for profits!
For maximum leverage and flexibility we make use of options and option strategies. There is a wide variety of option strategies available with exotic names such as Iron Condor, Reverse Calendar, Straddles and Strangles, Butterflies and Back Spreads, just to mention a few. These strategies are unparalleled in their flexibility and powerful leverage. They are capable of capturing profit for the news event trader through both statistical price volatility and/or Implied Volatility changes.
What We Do
Each day as we identify stocks that confirm their upcoming Earnings Release date we begin to track and log important data regarding price, volatility and volume. We not only watch the stock, but also some of its options and even some specific option spread strategies. We continue to track that information live, 24-7, right up to and through the Earnings Release Announcement. Then we continue to monitor and log relevant data about the stock and its options through to the next options expiration date. This provides a big picture view of the pre-announcement action, knee jerk gap action at the time of the news event, and completes with follow through after the news. Our database contains many years of stock and option pricing trends and fluctuations and other relevant statistical data.
With this information we have developed a set of studies, proprietary indicators and stock screening tools to help traders identify possible candidates for a variety of option strategy plays. Also available are results of past plays on every stock we track with examples of actual trading profit and loss results of several trading scenarios. The trader can use the tools to analyze and scrutinize a variety of trading possibilities and scenarios. The variety of uses of the Option$lam tools, information, data, and history is limited only by the traders imagination.
There is a wealth of information available here at Option$lam.com and we are continuously trying to improve the quality of our website. Please join with us in this fun and exciting adventure on the road to profitability through option strategies concentrated on news events. Much of what we offer is completely free and full access to the restricted areas of the web site is very affordable. Please visit our membership page for a listing of all the available features and benefits.
Good Trading to you!
Sincerely,
the Option$lam Team
Some of our goals in developing this web site include the following:
To create community of like minded traders focusing on option strategies based on current news events.
To develop and provide a set of customizable screening tools for option strategists that will assist in identifying viable candidates for such strategies.
To provide a history of data on price movement, volatility, profit and loss on said strategies.
To provide a space for traders to communicate and share ideas. Our forum areas are full of great information and trading ideas.
To provide quality educational material on stock and option trading for traders of all levels of experience from the beginner to the well seasoned.
To provide a set of research and screening tools which the trader can customize to his or her own liking and have these customized report results emailed privately and directly.
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