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Dogs of the DOW - One Year Entrance - IBMThe current Dogs are: CVX, CAT, VZ, PFE, CSCO, IBM, BA, MRK, INTC, XOM. Take a look at each one of those names on a DAILY CHART. Set only ONE Exponential moving average on the chart. Just one. Nothing else. A 33 Exponential Moving Average, offset by 3. As soon as you get a Daily Close of any of those stocks, above that 33 Exponential moving average, buy the stock, and hold it for the year, up to February 24th, 2017. That's it, that's the entire strategy. CVX is waiting. CAT IS A BUY. VZ is a buy. PFE is one to wait for. CSCO, you buy. IBM is a buy.
NYSE:IBMLong
by aileronmarketbalance
IBM: Long term entryIBM is offering a great entry for the long term. With earnings having beaten expectations for Q4, I'd be looking for a long trade here, mostly because we've hit a very strong long term support level, but also because the company's valuation at this level seems interesting. You could look into protecting the downside selling covered calls. I reccomend a 9-18% size position here, not more. Good luck if taking this trade. If interested in learning more about my signals service or private coaching, pm me for more information. Thanks for stopping by. Cheers, Ivan Labrie.
NYSE:IBMLong
by IvanLabrie
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IBM EARNINGS PLAYIBM announces earnings tomorrow after market, so look to put on a play before market close. Here are two possible plays, but I'm looking at these in off hours, so I'm doubtful that the potential credit to be received is accurate, although the strikes, probability of profit, and break even metrics should be fairly accurate (as usual, they may require a strike of two of tweaking after market open): Jan 29 119/142 short strangle Probability of Profit %: 74% Max Profit: $147/contract (tentative) Buying Power Effect: ~$1493 Break Evens: 117.53/143.47 Jan 29 116/119/141/144 iron condor Probability of Profit %: 68% Max Profit: $21/contract (tentative; if it's ultimately the case that this setup will yield <1.00, I would pass on it or look at widening the wings to yield additional credit, assuming that's consistent with your risk tolerance) Buying Power Effect: ~$279 Break Evens: 118.79/141.21 Notes: I'm already in an IBM trade left over from last earnings that I'm working on, so I won't be playing this one .... .
NYSE:IBM
by NaughtyPines
IBM IRON CONDOR (UPDATE ON BROKEN EARNINGS SETUP)This is becoming somewhat of an epic, post-earnings work-off setup. Without boring you with all the details (which are outlined in the post below), my post-earnings setup, after rolling and such is currently a Dec 7 140/143/140/143 iron condor. The 140/143 is the put wing and, yes, the 140/143 is the call wing (so it's basically inverted, with the call wing below the put wing; in short, it's an f'd-up setup). In any event, the 143 long call of that setup is nearly worthless, has done its job, so I'm going to take it off here for a .05 credit. The short call I will take off for as much I can get for it. Thereafter, I will have to roll the put side, most likely no later than Tuesday of next week, since I don't see IBM pounding above 143 (my short put strike) in short order. What I'm going to do is look to roll it out 45 DTE, but I'm going to first see what I can get for a 1 SD short call vertical at that expiry (it will be some kind of credit). Once I know what that credit is, I will look to see how much I can improve the short put side in terms of its strikes, because I don't want to pay more to roll/improve the short put side that I can receive in credit for the short call side. The unfortunate thing is that a 45 DTE will most likely be beyond IBM's next earnings announcement, so I will have to watch to see if I can take advantage of price movement/volatility around that event in order to improve the put strikes further ... .
NYSE:IBM
by NaughtyPines