HOST: Mark Longo, The Options Insider Media Group
CO-HOST: Mike Tosaw, St. Charles Wealth Management
CO-HOST: Mark Sebastian, Option Pit
TRADING BLOCK
Earnings Highlights this Week:
- Monday – Aurora Cannabis (ACB)
- Tuesday – Activision Blizzard
- Wednesday – Cisco
- Thursday – Nvidia, The Coca-Cola Company, CME Group,?Cannabis Growth (CGC), Applied Materials
- Friday – PepsiCo
Pot, soda and videogame earnings are on Wall Street?s to-do list -?https://www.marketwatch.com/story/weed-soda-and-videogames-are-on-wall-streets-to-do-list-2019-02-09
ODD BLOCK
- Size paper trading in SPDR S&P Oil & Gas Explore & Prod. (XOP)
- Put palooza in Centurylink Inc (CTL)
- Call palooza in Sangamo Therapeutics Inc (SGMO)
STRATEGY BLOCK
- Uncle Mike Tosaw discusses the dangers of over trading.
MAIL BLOCK
#QOTW – $VXX is dead! Long Live $VXXB! There’s a (somewhat) new kid on the #Volatility trading block. Are you trading $VXXB #options yet? If not, how are you getting your #Volatility fix these days? $VIX $TVIX $SVXY
– Yes. Jumped into $VXXB
– No. Spreads are too wide
– No. Prefer $TVIX, etc
– No. Prefer $VIX #options
Question from JVacx – Whatever happened to the $TSLA 50 put holders? Did they close out? Did they roll? Are they still slinging puts?
AROUND THE BLOCK
This Week?s Economic Reports
- Feb 12: JOLTS
- Feb 13: CPI
- Feb 14: PPI, Jobless Claims
- Feb 15: Retail Sales, Import and Export Prices, Industrial Production, Business Inventories, Consumer Sentiment