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The Option Alpha Podcast

174: We Stopped Trading Earnings After We Saw This New Research

Mar 31, 2020
01:05:43

Show notes: http://optionalpha.com/show174

Earnings season comes around four times a year for stocks, and as traders, we've always loved the idea of trading these events for the crush in implied volatility and quick potential moves in option strategy positions. However, after analyzing 1,546 earnings events across 40 underlyings over 10 years we decided to stop trading earnings events completely. In today's podcast, I'm going to walk through the research on earnings moves, and how different options strategies performed under various setups and conditions.

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