We continue to hear people bring up the old rule, 'sell in May and go away.' While not quantifiable, the increased mention of this historically seasonal trend tells us that investors are looking to lock in profits from this rally instead of throwing everything in. more...
(High Put/Call Ratio)
| Ticker Symbol |
Company | Call Volume |
Put Volume |
Put/Call |
| MSFT | Microsoft Corp. | 708724 | 290470 | 0.41 |
| AMZN | Amazon.com | 206510 | 274150 | 1.33 |
| MOT | Motorola Inc. | 56144 | 229068 | 4.08 |
| FXI | Ishares Trust Ftse-xinhua China 25 Index Fund | 40 | 218994 | 5.40 |
| QCOM | QUALCOMM Inc. | 458420 | 169172 | 0.37 |
| SNDK | SanDisk Corp. | 89578 | 85090 | 0.95 |
| OXY | Occidental Petroleum Corp. | 14664 | 41648 | 2.84 |
| COST | Costco Wholesale Corp. | 3708 | 34360 | 9.27 |
| FXE | Currencyshares Euro Trust | 12776 | 33562 | 2.63 |
| PCU | Southern Peru Copper Corp. | 15336 | 28814 | 1.44 |

Quantifying sentiment can reveal times when a stock may be more susceptible to a reversal based on the idea that the market corrects itself when sentiment leans too far to one of these extremes. more...
tradingedge
The quarterly ritual typically provides investors with a wealth of trading opportunities as earnings results are typically one of the more widely traded events at the company level. more...


| Trade | Time Held |
Gain | |
| AMZN | Feb 50 Calls | 8 days | 135% |
| AVP | March 20 Puts | 19 days | 126% |
| BHI | Oct 37 Calls | 7 days | 150% |
| INTC | July 17 Calls | 1 day | 216% |
| MON | Oct 105 Puts | 4 days | 220% |
| XLF | Oct 22 Puts | 19 days | 195% |


editorbio
Jon Lewis brings more than 20 years of writing and editing experience, in some of the nation's leading options newsletters, to the table in The Winning Edge, a weekly trading newsletter that helps members to profit with simple, easy-to-execute option plays designed to take advantage of earnings and other market events.


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We've examined the trading landscape and developed an outlook for Q1 earnings and how we will profit from the coming earnings season. We'll send you the exact trades to make and the specific moves to take, but to see what's on our radar, read "Profit from 2009's Earnings Shockers" today!

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