If you’ve ever wondered if something can increase in value 100-fold overnight, look no farther than Facebook’s weekly put options. I’ve pasted in yellow the last prices from yesterday. It’s quite a contrast with what they’re going for now.
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June Takes a Bite out of AAPL (by MoneyMiser21)
Southern California experiences a “May gray, June gloom” weather effect. Up north in Cupertino, 
America’s favorite smartphone maker experiences a similar phenomenon with its stock price.
In the past ten years, AAPL closed beneath its June options expiration (OpEx) open (Mid-May to Mid-June) six out of ten times.
And when we focus on the past five years’ June OpEx periods, the bears won four out of those five times.
A major reason behind the bearishness is Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers’ Conference (WWDC), which is almost always held in June.
Since 2005, AAPL closed every week red except one (11-1 to the bears), and that was 2014 when the 7-for-1 stock split took place shortly after the WWDC. (more…)
Earnings Date Charts in Menu
A little addition we made in the wee hours of the morning was this menu item, which is available to everyone:
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I Hear You, Fellow Slopers
Message Received
Last month, in a post about Portfolio Armor‘s security selection method (A Security Selection Method That Beats The Market), I might have included a few too many charts. At least, that’s the impression you gave in the comments. So this time, I’ve decided to use a table instead, where every starting date links to an interactive chart. (more…)