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.
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) raised its earnings and revenue outlook for 2016 when it announced Q1 results earlier this year. Analysts are waiting to hear if that’s still on track when PFE reports Q2 results ahead of the bell Tuesday.
Analysts also say that products like Eliquis, Xalkori, Xeljanz, Ibrance and Prevnar 13 could boost top-line sales “meaningfully,” while recent cost savings might help the bottom line. What else is in the pipeline? The recent acquisition of Hospira also is expected to contribute to growth. How is that integration going?
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Last week, PFE won bankruptcy-court approval to purchase the assets of Bind Therapeutics, which develops cancer drug treatments that analysts say they’ll also want to know more about. Also of interest is PFE’s recent announcement of positive top-line results from oral trials tied to a drug treating moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis.
Analysts reporting to Thomson Reuters expect earnings per share of $0.62 on revenues of $13 billion. A year ago, PFE turned in a profit of $0.56 a share on topline sales of $11.9 billion.
Short-term options traders have priced in a potential 2.5% share price move in either direction around the earnings release, according to the Market Maker Move™ indicator on the thinkorswim® platform from TD Ameritrade.
Options trading was generally light last week, but there was some volume in the 36- and 36.5-strike puts. Volume on the call side was light as well, but some trading was taking place in the 36.5- and 37-strike lines. The implied volatility is at the 24th percentile. (Please remember past performance is no guarantee of future results.)
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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.