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 up 0.13 percent to 16,040.65 while the NASDAQ surged 0.20-percent to 4,070.79. The S&P also rose, gaining 0.27 percent to 1,809.91.
Top Headline
Covidien PLC (NYSE: COV) announced its plans to acquire Given Imaging (NASDAQ: GIVN) for a total of $860 million Covidien will buy all the outstanding stock of Given Imaging for $30.00 per share in cash, representing a 27% premium to the company's closing price on Friday.
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The deal is likely to be completed by March 31.
Equities Trading UP
Given Imaging (NASDAQ: GIVN) shot up 25.67 percent to $29.72 after Covidien PLC (NYSE: COV) announced its plans to acquire Given Imaging for $30.00 per share in cash.
Shares of Sysco (NYSE: SYY) got a boost, shooting up 13.32 percent to $38.88 after the company announced its plans to buy US Foods for around $3.5 billion in cash and stock.
Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INFI) was also up, gaining 11.91 percent to $16.73 after the company reported encouraging Phase 1 IPI-145 data at the American Society of Hematology (ASH).
Equities Trading DOWN
Shares of EZCORP (NASDAQ: EZPW) were down 6.09 percent to $10.34 after Sterne Agee downgraded the stock from Buy to Neutral and lowered the target price from $15.50 to $12.
Ply Gem Holdings (NYSE: PGEM) shares tumbled 4.12 percent to $17.44 after Credit Suisse downgraded the stock from Outperform to Neutral.
McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) was down, falling 1.15 percent to $95.69 after the company reported a 0.8% drop in its US sales in November. McDonald's also reported a 0.5% rise in its global comparable sales in the month.
Commodities
In commodity news, oil traded down 0.06 percent to $97.59, while gold traded up 0.55 percent to $1,235.80. Silver traded up 1.16 percent Monday to $19.75, while copper rose 0.20 percent to $3.26.
Eurozone
European shares were mostly higher today. The Spanish Ibex Index gained 0.83 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB Index surged 0.49 percent. Meanwhile, the German DAX gained 0.18 percent and the French CAC 40 climbed 0.01 percent while U.K. shares fell 0.02 percent.
Economics
The TD Ameritrade IMX for November will be released today.
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.