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OKTA bullish momentum trade into earningsOKTA's trend is bullish and has been for quite sometime. OKTA grew its revenue by 60% last year (2018). That’s a head and shoulders above most loss-making companies, especially in the cloud space and SSO. And the share price has responded, gaining 126% in the last 12 months. OKTA has reacted bullish more than bearish on earnings historically. Currently the market is holding a nice tight uptrend after making successive new ATHs. Based on the price action the last few weeks and few days, it appears OKTA would like to continue higher in the low to mid $90 region either before or post ER. This is a high risk setup. However, price is making higher hows and higher lows as you would like to see in a bullish trade. The trade is entering May $80 calls at $12.40 (stop-limit) with a stop loss of $10.40. Max loss of $200 per contract. The plan is to take profit before the ER if price reaches $92-$93 otherwise will considering holding over ER for the upper 1.618 fib target and higher. But first let's clear $88 ahead of earnings. Let's see what happens this week :-).
NASDAQ:OKTALong
by Price-Level-Trading
SHAK at strong resistance getting ready to breakout?!SHAK One of my favorite setups is to take a stock long at the break of a resistance or break of support to catch the momentum of the move. Earnings are about 2 weeks out too so SHAK may rise into the ER like most stocks do. MY setup is taking the break of Thursday's candle with March $50 calls. Keeping a tight stop in case it's a failure on the break up. Target 1 is the 200 day sma and target 2 will be around the $60. Let's see what she does this week! Once filled will give the trade 3-5 days to see how the momentum is. As always let price discovery be your guide :-).
NYSE:SHAKLong
by Price-Level-Trading
Late to the party to post, but SQ swing trade worked very wellEver since SQ broke its downtrend from the all-time high at the beginning of 2019, our team at PLT has been watching for great intra-day and swing trade setups. SQ is one of our favorite companies to always remain bullish on due to the products and services they offer in the Fin-tech industry. This trade was planned on January 18, 2019 over the weekend to enter February $65 call options on the retest of the close of January 17, 2019. You can see SQ's price broke above the daily 200 day sma, which is typically very strong support. Our stop was placed below all the bullish candles and the 1/3 back fib just under $63.50. Result was a nice 56.7% gain on the calls almost the next day after hitting target 1. Target 2 was also hit which was the 1.618% extension from the most recent move. The calls return went well above 100% at that point since they were deep in the money. SQ most likely goes higher, but may reset and retest a bit before earnings. Look out for more day and swing trade ideas in the very near future now that we are all settled in to our Trading View account :-). Cheers!
NYSE:XYZLong
by PriceLevelTrading
My thoughts on SQRight now we are holding the 50 day sma on daily and previous support at $47.61, which is also the 50% of the most recent measured move. Purple line: what I am looking to see is if we hold here, consolidate then move higher. However, $49.56 is a resistance SQ needs to close above before continue back north of $50. Orange line: we fail the 50% fib and test the 38.2% fib around $45, which is also near the 100 day sma and lower trend line that we bounced off on the last dip. Failure of the 38.2% fib would mean a definite test of the lower trend line. Obviously this all depends on the overall state of the markets. The tech sector has been getting hammered for the past week so let's see if she can hold. I would prefer the orange line or lower trend line to buy longer term calls and/or shares. Cheers!
NYSE:XYZLong
by brianweber
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GOOG - Cautious Buy - Played via Selling Put Credit Spread GOOG has closed upwards of $1,054, forming a nice bullish candlestick! So, despite the great candlestick formation, there are some worrisome signs brewing in the Bond & Gold Markets, as well as in the Volatility Index. This means that if investors start heading towards safe havens like these, the stock market should take a pause and/or pull back. As a result, the way I decided to play this bullish to neutral stance of mine on GOOG, is by selling the $1,012.5 / $1,010 Dec. 15 Put Credit Spread (18 Days out) for $0.27 credit, or $27 per contract ($2,700 for a 100 lot). This means that based on the ThinkorSwim platform, this is a Delta 15 put spread, which simply implies that the options market assigns JUST a 15% chance that this option spread will be ITM (In The Money) by its expiration. In simple terms, it is highly unlikely that we will get our options assigned to us. To summarize, being long GOOG by selling this put spread, we stand to make more than 10% Return On Our Risked Amount in 18 Days and having an 85% chance that we will be right doing so! Pretty good odds for a really good return, in a short period of time! This way, we are allowing GOOG to drop MORE THAN $30 from its current levels and STILL be able to keep ALL of our premium. Close your position when GOOG hits $1,080 (Profit Target), or Exit the trade, if the spread increases to $0.40 (Stop Loss), for a 2R. Happy Trading Lindosskier
NASDAQ:GOOGLong
by lindosskier