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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U.S. stock futures traded higher in early pre-market trade.
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Data on personal income and consumer spending for December will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET, while the Markit manufacturing PMI for February is schedule for release at 9:45 a.m. ET. The ISM manufacturing index for February and the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index for February will be released at 10:00 a.m. ET. Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Raphael Bostic is set to speak in Washington, DC at 12:50 p.m. ET.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 172 points to 26,085, while the Standard & Poor’s 500 index futures rose 17 points to 2,801.75. Futures for the Nasdaq 100 index gained 52.75 points to 7,155.25.
Oil prices traded higher as Brent crude futures rose 0.1 percent to trade at $66.37 per barrel, while US WTI crude futures rose 0.4 percent to trade at $57.44 a barrel. The Baker Hughes North American rig count report for the latest week is schedule for release at 1:00 p.m. ET.
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European markets were higher today, with the Spanish Ibex Index rising 0.6 percent, STOXX Europe 600 Index climbing 0.5 percent and German DAX 30 index gained 1 percent. The UK's FTSE index was trading higher by 0.6 percent, while French CAC 40 Index climbed 0.6 percent.
In Asian markets, Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average rose 1.02 percent, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index climbed 0.63 percent, China’s Shanghai Composite Index surged 1.8 percent and India’s BSE Sensex rose 0.55 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.