Trading on corporate earnings news : profiting from targeted, short-term options positions

Profit from earnings announcements, by taking targeted, short-term option positions explicitly timed to exploit them! Based on rigorous research and huge data sets, this book identifies the specific earnings-announcement trades most likely to yield profits, and teaches how to make these trades—in pl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Shon, John Author (author), Zhou, Ping Contributor (contributor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] FT Press 2011
Edición:1st edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628287906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Earnings announcements: why are they so important?
  • Earnings surprises: definition and measurement
  • Earnings surprises: empirical evidence
  • Market reactions to earnings announcements
  • Market reactions to earnings surprises (are full of surprises)
  • General characteristics of optioned companies and options behavior around earnings announcements
  • Practical considerations before implementing trades
  • Directional bets: long calls, bull call spreads, long puts, and bear put spreads
  • Long straddle and strangle strategies
  • Short straddle and strangle strategies
  • Growth expectations and the torpedo effect
  • Revenue and expense surprises
  • Earnings surprise persistence
  • Other theories and evidence.