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.
Toward the end of trading Monday, the Dow traded up 0.78 percent to 25,738.26 while the NASDAQ climbed 1 percent to 7,403.51. The S&P also rose, gaining 0.71 percent to 2,779.86.
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Monday afternoon, the consumer discretionary shares climbed 2.1 percent. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included G-III Apparel Group, Ltd. (NASDAQ:GIII) up 10 percent, and Studio City International Holdings Limited (NYSE:MSC) up 15 percent.
In trading on Monday, consumer staples shares fell 0.5 percent.
Top Headline
Nexstar Media Group Inc (NASDAQ:NXST) announced plans to acquire Tribune Media Company (NYSE:TRCO) for $6.4 billion, including the assumption of outstanding debt.
Nexstar Media will pay $46.50 per share, representing a 15.5 percent premium over Tribune Media's closing price on Friday.
Equities Trading UP
American Electric Technologies, Inc (NASDAQ:AETI) shares got a boost, shooting up 262 percent to $1.45 after the company disclosed that its joint venture, BOMAY, received a major order for drilling rig control systems.
Shares of Tesaro, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSRO) shot up 59 percent to $73.75 after GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE:GSK) and TESARO announced a definitive agreement under which the former will acquire the latter for $5.1 billion in cash, including the assumption of Tesaro's debt.
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:GBT) shares were also up, gaining 51 percent to $47.68. Global Blood announced Monday that the FDA has agreed to allow filing for its late-stage sickle cell disease, or SCD, candidate Voxelotor under an accelerated approval pathway. The company said it would submit a new drug application, or NDA, for the pipeline asset under the pathway.
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Equities Trading DOWN
Hexindai Inc. (NASDAQ:HX) shares dropped 25 percent to $3.31 following Q2 results. Hexindai posted a Q2 loss of $0.36 per share on sales of $3.62 million.
Shares of Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. (NASDAQ:TNXP) were down 23 percent to $3.99 after the company filed for a $34 million stock and warrant offering.
Sienna Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNNA) was down, falling around 40 percent to $6.11 after reporting top-line results from a Phase 2b study of SNA-120.
Commodities
In commodity news, oil traded up 3.3 percent to $52.61 while gold traded up 0.99 percent to $1,238.10.
Silver traded up 1.96 percent Monday to $14.495, while copper rose 0.66 percent to $ 2.806.
Eurozone
European shares closed higher today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 surged 1.03 percent, the Spanish Ibex Index rose 1.13 percent, while Italy’s FTSE MIB Index climbed 2.26 percent. Meanwhile the German DAX climbed 1.85 percent, and the French CAC 40 rose 1 percent while U.K. shares rose 1.18 percent.
Economics
The IHS Markit manufacturing PMI dropped to 55.3 in November, versus a prior reading of 55.7.
U.S. construction spending dropped 0.1 percent for October, versus economists’ expectations for a 0.4 percent rise.
The ISM manufacturing index increased to 59.3 in November, versus previous reading of 57.7. Economists expected a reading of 57.5.
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.