We've been maintaining short lists of both bullish and bearish potential trades according to their relative technical situations.
The table of stocks below represents a current list of stocks that are trading at or near their 50-day moving averages. For the most part, these are stocks that continue to hold some relative strength against the market, and therefore posses the potential to outperform the market once a recovery gets underway.


| 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% |


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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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