by Chad Shoop | Jan 22, 2021 | Buy and Hold, Earnings, Education, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
If you are buying and holding a stock, you only have to get one thing right: Is this a great company? You get that right, and 50 years from now that stock could be helping you pay off your mortgage and paving the way for your retirement. But with options, we have to...
by Chad Shoop | Jan 15, 2021 | Earnings, Education, Feedback, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
On November 5, one of the stocks on my watchlist hit my Profit Trigger: semiconductor maker Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM). The company reported earnings for the third quarter that topped analysts’ expectations by 22%. Its share price shot up 10%. Many investors thought...
by Chad Shoop | Jan 8, 2021 | 2021, Education, Options Trading, Qualcomm, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
Editor’s Note: Yesterday, we sent around an update on our Qualcomm trade, letting you know to close it out. We want to congratulate our readers on a double-digit gain on their first Weekly Options Corner trade! If you missed the alert, you can view it here. We hope...
by Chad Shoop | Jan 7, 2021 | Education, IT, Options Trading, Qualcomm, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
Our opportunity on Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) has been a wild ride. We’ve been up 50%, down 50% … and now we are sitting on modest 13% gain a week before it is set to expire. If you’ve stuck with us and made this trade, congrats! With us so close to...
by Chad Shoop | Jan 1, 2021 | 2021, COVID-19, Education, Options Trading, Trading Strategies, Weekly Options Corner
Editor’s Note: Happy New Year to all of our readers! We hope you are having a wonderful day. As we start this new year, we thought this would be a perfect time to recap what 2020 was like for Chad’s subscribers. We’re thankful for all the readers who’ve trusted Chad...
by Chad Shoop | Dec 18, 2020 | American Investor Today, Bull Marketm, Education, Options Trading, Qualcom, Trading Strategies
Some people make stocks complicated. But we don’t need to. At the end of the day, any stock can only do three things. It can go up. It can go down. Or it can go sideways. Most traders only focus on the first two. We all love it when our stocks go up, but we get...