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Sandyboy
2025-07-31

$Meta Platforms, Inc.(META)$ and $Microsoft(MSFT)$ earnings are over but even with iron condor I would have probably made a loss as they jumped too much.
I have tried strangles and straddles and also tried iron condors before.
The problem nowadays is that volatility is changed, small narratives and statements can greatly get stock valuations down or up.
I had a bad experience with Adobe last season when the price just tanked from the 550 range to 400 range and all my strangles and condors became useless.

This scared me for a bit and I laid off for a while from earnings period trades. However slowly recovering.
The problem lies in predicting the move.

Idea: use expected moves to predict the movement and add a safety margin. This is what I am doing recently and expected move can be found in Tiger brokers and also in yahoo. This can be used fortuitously.

# Market Amplifies Earnings Moves, Can a Strangle Make You Money?

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CatherineGunter
·2025-08-01
Great approach! Keep up the smart thinking! [Smart]
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