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.
Midway through trading Monday, the Dow traded down 0.39% to 27573.68 while the NASDAQ fell 0.23% to 8455.40. The S&P also fell, dropping 0.31% to 3,083.51.
Leading and Lagging Sectors
Real estate shares climbed 0.3% on Monday. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Uniti Group Inc. (NASDAQ:UNIT), up 4%, and Marcus & Millichap, Inc. (NYSE:MMI), up 3%.
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In trading on Monday, materials shares fell 0.6%.
Top Headline
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ:SPWR) announced it plans to separate into two independent publicly-traded companies: SunPower and Maxeon Solar Technologies.
Maxeon Solar will be the manufacturer and marketer of premium solar panels. Concurrent with the transaction, an equity investment of $298 million will be made in Maxeon Solar by long-time partner Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
Equities Trading UP
Carbonite, Inc. (NASDAQ:CARB) shares shot up 24% to $22.88 after the company announced it would be acquired by Open Text Corporation (NASDAQ:OTEX) for $23 per share in cash.
Shares of TransEnterix, Inc. (NYSE:TRXC) got a boost, shooting up 19% to $0.27 after the company announced that Anthony Fernando was appointed as the new President and CEO.
XPEL, Inc. (NASDAQ:XPEL) shares were also up, gaining 17% to $12.66 after reporting strong Q3 results.
Equities Trading DOWN
Lipocine Inc. (NASDAQ:LPCN) shares tumbled 69% to $0.8340 after an adverse FDA verdict on its lead drug Tlando, previously known as LPCN 1021. Lipocine said Monday the FDA said "nay" for the third time for its Tlando, an oral testosterone replacement therapy for use in adult males for treating conditions associated with hypogonadism, which is a deficiency of endogenous testosterone. The complete response letter, or CRL, issued by the FDA signaling the application cannot be approved in the present form, pointed to one deficiency — the efficacy trial not meeting the three secondary endpoints for maximal testosterone concentration. The CRL, however, did not identify issues related to chemistry, manufacturing and controls.
Shares of ASLAN Pharmaceuticals Limited (NASDAQ:ASLN) were down 58% to $0.8841 after the company reported that the TreeTopp global pivotal study of varlitinib in biliary tract cancer did not meet its co-primary endpoint.
NextCure, Inc. (NASDAQ:NXTC) was down, falling 51% to $40.83 after the company announced a 44% patient discontinuation rate in its NC318 Phase 1/2 clinical trial.
Commodities
In commodity news, oil traded down 0.1% to $57.19, while gold traded down 0.7% to $1,452.50.
Silver traded down 0.4% Monday to $16.755, while copper fell 0.5% to $2.67.
Euro zone
European shares were mostly lower today. The eurozone’s STOXX 600 rose 0.01%, the Spanish Ibex Index fell 0.08%, while Italy’s FTSE MIB Index declined 0.12%. Meanwhile, the German DAX dropped 0.16%, and the French CAC 40 rose 0.17% while UK shares fell 0.5%.
Economics
On the economics calendar Monday, there is no important data due out.
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.