Short Straddles - Exploit Earnings Option Volatility Crush
Short Straddle Earnings trade on Priceline PCLN. Proper analysis identifies excellent Volatility arbitrage opportunities
What you will learn
How to Exploit Implied Volatility behavior during the Earnings Cycle
Understand the Risks and Rewards of Naked Option spread selling
Learn to provide the appropriate safety mechanisms in such a trade
Create an explosive trading opportunity with acceptable risk management
Learn an exciting trade that's alive for barely 24 hours, but can be applied broadly to all stocks during earnings cycle
Description
Should we call this trade Priceline Earnings Explosion or Volatility Implosion. Splice and dice it any way you want, there is no doubt this trade is on Steroids. The trade takes advantage of a very specific Volatility Arbitrage situation noticed in Priceline on the day it was reporting earnings. This was a case of mispricing Implied Volatility on the next Option series. A fairly complex Short Straddle strategy, that worked like a gem. Only because the analysis leading up to the trade was Spot On the mark. Believe it or not, this sort of opportunities come up all the time during Earnings reports season. Once you learn this strategy and approach well, you can create very nice 1-day trades based on the Volatility Crush