Thursday, April 19, 2007

Welcome

Hello everyone,

Since I have started playing earnings and options more recently, I figured I would start up this blog to give my ideas on any potential plays and review previous ones. While I am still relatively new to the options game, I am in the money in 3 out of 6 plays. More importantly, the winners outweigh the losers by a good amount. So far, I have only tried to do straddle options, buying a call and a put at the same strike price, on the expectation of earnings volatility. I was drawn to this by losing a couple equity earnings plays and noticing the extreme price movements many stocks can have after releasing earnings. I then decided to play options so that I can potentially make money if a stock declines or rises sharply after earnings.

In addition to options, I have been trading equities for about a year and a half. While I have had some big winners, I have taken my licks and learned my lessons (hopefully). All in all, it is a learning process, and hopefully I can continue to better my abilitities in this area of investing as well. Currently, all of my equity holdings are Chinese companies listed on US markets. I feel the China poses a great opportunity as their economy is expanding rapidly and the government is helping some of the new startup companies out in order to foster growth.

Play for tomorrow:
For tomorrow's trading I bought a straddle on AMD at $14 a share. The stock has been beaten down for a while and there appears to be the potential for strong pressure to either the up or down side. While AMD has reported a much wider loss than expected, the stock is currently up after hours as it appears investors might have already factored a major disappointment into the stock price and are showing some optimism for the future. I will try and report back on this play tomorrow.

Thank you for reading,

Brian

2 comments:

Agree to Disagree said...

Since you are blogging about old purchases, please blog about your purchase of LFBG (Left Behind Games) Thanks!

rmacguidwin said...

Haha. For every AOB, there's an LFBG...