Options Playbook Radio 233: HD Straddle into Earnings

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 5:14 p.m.

HD is announcing earnings soon. Let's look at how to set up a straddle to cap risk. You can find more in The Options Playbook, which is always available on OptionsPlaybook.com, in on the Amazon Kindle edition.

Specifically:

  • What's happened since last week?
  • What did we learn from the NVDA backspread from last time?
  • What happened to the one without earnings?
  • What happened to the one that contained earnings?
  • Let's take a look at Home Depot
  • Earnings are coming up
  • Setting up the trade
  • We know the max risk and max upside
  • How many contracts should we do?
  • What is our rationale?
  • What's the goal?

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