Hello Mooers,
For the week ended March 6, U.S. equities turned defensive. The Dow fell 3.0%, its worst weekly drop since early April, the S&P 500 lost 2.0%, its biggest weekly decline since mid-October, and the Nasdaq shed 1.2%. Friday’s selloff was driven by two forces: a sharp jump in oil prices as the Middle East conflict intensified, and a much weaker-than-expected February jobs report, with nonfar...

Hello Mooers,
U.S. equities finished last week on a softer note, with investors increasingly rotating away from crowded risk and re-pricing both AI winners/losers and the rate path. For the week ending Feb. 27, the S&P 500 fell 0.4%, the Dow lost 1.3%, and the Nasdaq slipped 1.0%, while Friday’s session saw another broad decline as inflation worries and geopol...

In the previous posts, we analyzed strategies and key considerations for buying options for trading earnings. Overall, buying options during earnings season is generally a “low win-rate, low payout” game, which in theory is not very cost-effective.
That naturally leads to the next question: If we use options selling strategies to trade earnings, can we improve the win rate and make money more easily?
In theory, yes — but there are severa...