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Earnings Trading

1 video54 minIntermediateFree with an account

Three ways to trade earnings with options: before the report, on the day, and in the weeks after, with the ThinkOrSwim indicators that show how each stock has behaved in past reports.

Earnings Trading course cover

What you'll learn

  • How to trade earnings with options, and when to buy or sell premium
  • Patterns in price and implied volatility in the days before a report
  • Gap and go versus gap fill on the day of the report
  • Moves over the 7, 14 and 30 days after a report
  • How often earnings gaps fill after beats and misses

The course video

One video, about an hour.

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    How to Trade Earnings

    The full course: pre-earnings, day of earnings and post-earnings strategies, with the Pre-Earnings, Post-Earnings and Smarter Earnings indicators.

    54 min

The earnings indicators

Smarter Earnings, free

Gap behavior, beat and miss reactions and expected moves on earnings day.

Pre-Earnings Analysis, members

Price momentum and implied volatility patterns before the report.

Post-Earnings Analysis, members

Moves over the 7, 14 and 30 days after the report.

Pre-Earnings and Post-Earnings come with Stock VB

Stock Volatility Box members get both analysis indicators, and can use the live scanner to find earnings moves that reach the conservative zones.

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Free tools that go with it

The free earnings indicator and the scans that find upcoming reports.

Questions

What does the course cost?

Nothing. The course and the Smarter Earnings indicator are free.

Are the indicators free?

Smarter Earnings is free. Pre-Earnings Analysis and Post-Earnings Analysis are included with Stock Volatility Box.

Is this course for beginners?

It is written for intermediate traders who know basic options and ThinkOrSwim.

How long is it?

One video of about an hour, plus shorter videos on single stocks and scenarios.

Which options strategies does it cover?

Directional calls and puts, defined-risk spreads and butterflies, and premium selling, matched to each earnings scenario.

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