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27% profit every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


Volatility can be a trader's best friend and an investor's worst nightmare, especially during earnings season when stocks could move higher or lower by a significant amount in one day.

Among the entire universe of companies worth at least $2 billion and more than 20,000 outstanding options, there are a handful of stocks that are expected to move 9 percent post-earnings, according to MKM Partners Derivatives strategist Jim Strugger.

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In a research report sent to investors and obtained by CNBC, the analyst highlighted 10 companies with the most notable implied earnings move. Top of the list is SAGE Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:SAGE) with an implied earnings move of 24.13 percent. Sage's stock has lost around 25 percent after announcing top-line results from a late-stage study for the treatment of super-refractory status epilepticus, which failed to meet the study's primary end point.

Here is a list of the analyst's top 10 stocks with the highest implied earnings move.

Sage Therapeutics: 24.13 percent.
  • Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE:VRX): 13.69 percent.
  • Hertz Global Holdings, Inc (NYSE:HTZ): 13.45 percent.
  • Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAT): 10.57 percent.

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  • Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD):10.49 percent.
  • Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR): 10.39 percent.
  • Molina Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:MOH): 9.94 percent.
  • FireEye Inc (NASDAQ:FEYE): 9.6 percent.
  • Tripadvisor Inc (NASDAQ:TRIP): 9.34 percent.
  • Michael Kors Holdings Ltd (NYSE:KORS): 9.26 percent.
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    27% profit every 20 days?

    This is what Nic Chahine averages with his option buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads… BUYING options. Most traders don’t even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here’s how he does it.


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