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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.


Below is a list of notable corporate events for the week beginning October 15. Note, this list is not comprehensive and all dates are subject to change. All times are ET.

Monday

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Economic

  • U.S. Food and retail sales 8:30 a.m.

Conferences

  • Adobe MAX 2018 Oct. 15-17

Notable Earnings Releases

Investor Events

  • Analyst IPO quiet periods expire for: XY Financial (NYSE:XYF) and Bank7 (NASDAQ:BSVN)

Tuesday

Economic

  • API U.S. crude oil inventories at 4:30 p.m.

Notable Earnings Releases

  • Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Q3 premarket
  • Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) Q3 premarket
  • Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) Q3 premarket
  • Domino’s Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) Q3 premarket
  • International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) Q3 after hours
  • CSX (NYSE:CSX) Q3 after hours
  • Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) Q3 after hours
  • United Continental (NYSE:UAL) Q3 after hours

Investor Events

  • Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL) investor day
  • Walmart (NYSE:WMT) investor meeting 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
  • IPO lockup expirations for Surface Oncology (NASDAQ:SURF)
  • Analyst IPO quiet period expires for: Elanco (NYSE:ELAN), Eventbrite (NYSE:EB), Farfetch (NYSE:FTCH) and Y-mAbs Therapeutics (NASDAQ:YMAB)

Wednesday

Economics

  • U.S. housing starts 8:30 a.m.
  • EIA crude oil inventories 10:30 a.m.
  • Minutes of September Fed Reserve meeting released 2 p.m.
  • Canada legalizes marijuana

Notable Earnings Releases


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  • Alcoa (NYSE:AA) Q3 after hours
  • Steel Dynamics (NASDAQ:STLD) Q3 after hours

IPOs

  • Riley Exploration Permian (REPX)

Investor Events

  • IPO lockup expirations for Pivotal Software (NYSE:PVTL) and Level One Bancorp (NASDAQ:LEVL)

Thursday

Economic

  • U.S. initial jobless claims 8:30 a.m.
  • EIA natural gas inventories 10:30 a.m.

Notable Earnings Releases

  • Paypal (NASDAQ:PYPL) Q3 after hours
  • Canadian Pacific (NYSE:CP) Q3 after hours
  • American Express (NYSE:AXP) Q3 after hours

IPOs

  • PhaseBio Pharmaceuticals (PHAS)
  • SI-BONE (SIBN)
  • Studio City international Holdings (MSC)
  • Valtech SE (VTEC)

M&A

  • Perry Ellis (NASDAQ:PERY) shareholders vote on take-private offer from founder George Feldenkreis

Investor Events

  • Helios and Matheson (NASDAQ:HMNY) shareholders vote on reverse stock split of up to 1-for-500 shares

Friday

Economic

  • Baker Hughes oil rig counts 1 p.m.

Notable Earnings Releases

  • Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) Q1 premarket

IPOs

  • LogicBio Therapeutics (LOGC)
  • Niu Technologies (NIU)
  • Solarwinds (SWI)

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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