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Welcome to the ORATS earnings report where we scan for companies with upcoming earnings announcements, check out historical earnings information, and find a potential options trade. Read on or watch the video overview here: https://youtu.be/2mtx2ja-VwQ.

Welcome to the ORATS earnings report where we scan for companies with upcoming earnings announcements, check out historical earnings information, and find a potential options trade.

Read on or watch here:

1. Isn't holding a naked long call (as a result of locking in a profit or plain buying outright call) in general a bad idea? Reason I think so is because of the nature of IV: it mostly falls when the underlying is rising. So you have short theta and a big long vega moving against you.

Traders love to tell people that they can trade anything. That if you have the skills to be a trader, the specific item traded is unimportant. That may be true for some professional traders who are skilled technicians. However, it’s very different for gullible amateurs.

At his blog, Joey offers his perspective on the top reason that so many trader wannabes are not, and will not, become profitable traders. His post is titled: Learn to Lose Money to Make Money. Here are the Excerpts from the blog.

Post Earnings IV crush is the fall in implied volatility after earnings is announced. Typically, earnings announcements cause the price of the stock to move more than normal. The move will have more effect on short dated expirations since the day of earnings large move has more weight than the rest of the days with normal moves. 

It is widely acknowledged that the price of the underlying directly impacts the premium of the option. Therefore, options are termed derivatives. Their current value is directly derived from movement of the underlying price. Is the opposite also true? Does movement of the option value affect the underlying price?

2021 was another banner year for Anchor and Diversified Anchor, with both strategies beating the target indexes. Because SPY was the best performing of SPY, QQQ, IWM, and EFA, "Regular" Anchor outperformed Diversified because SPY was the best performing of the 4 indexes we use.

Steady Futures launched in mid-2019 giving us approximately 2.5 years of performance data.  We look at our performance on an absolute basis based on a 50k portfolio size and a relative basis versus the SocGen Trend Index

Steady PutWrite (SPW) launched in early 2019, so we now have close to three years of performance to evaluate on both an absolute basis and relative to the strategy’s benchmark, PUTW (WisdomTree CBOE S&P 500 PutWrite Strategy Fund). 

Earlier today I distributed a press release with the results from the Trading Industry Survey we conducted in November. First off, I want to thank all of you who took the time to complete the survey. I greatly appreciate your participation and, as you’ll soon see, the results were intriguing.

This article contains a glossary of many important terms used by option traders. I believe nobody should trade options before learning at least the most basic terms used in options trading. "Learn first, trade later" is the mantra I have been using again and again, and it never gets old.