At the current post market price of $224 (at the time of writing), the downside from the earnings report has already been fully priced in.
Market makers are now in a harvesting situation but with a dangerous twist. They fully expected AMD to face seasonality headwinds, which I personally think is actually not a really big deal beneath the surface. Retail heroes, however, are in full capitulation mode over AMD’s ‘weak’ Q1 guidance and the temporary setback narr...

In the previous episode, we covered the first—and most important—way to deal with drawdowns: cutting exposure. As a quick recap, what are the advantages of proactively trimming positions when markets start to fall?
In this episode, we move on to the second line of defense: hedging with options.
1. When to Hedge?
Before we dive deep into hedging strategies, it helps to identify differences between two types of drawdowns:
A tech...

In our previous post, we introduced three useful tools on moomoo that help investors read the pre-earnings options setup—so you can better judge whether it makes more sense to be an options buyer or an options seller. Starting from this episode, we’ll go step-by-step on how to build earnings strategies on buyer and seller.
This post focuses on buyer strategies. Next episode, we’ll cover seller strategies.
First of all, a hard truth: buyi...