Here is the third (and I think most exciting) big tech earnings announcement coming on Tuesday afternoon: Alphabet (known by 99.9999999% of thinking people as simply Google, which is also kind of suggested by the GOOGL ticker symbol).

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Here is the third (and I think most exciting) big tech earnings announcement coming on Tuesday afternoon: Alphabet (known by 99.9999999% of thinking people as simply Google, which is also kind of suggested by the GOOGL ticker symbol).

As mentioned in the Microsoft post, I’m taking a look at the “Big Three” tech earnings for this post-close. Of these three, Texas Instruments is the most stable (that is, boring). Ever since the financial crisis, it has been a solid, reliable, uptrending equity.

This afternoon, the main earnings event is going to be Netflix (yes, IBM will announce too, but their chart is ungodly boring). Here’s how NFLX is doing, which has been pretty wretched (over a 50% drop in just half a year!)

Among my twenty-eight bearish positions, here are the top seven winners (all of them very simple “long put” positions); the present percentage gains range from 35% up to 85%. These are sorted from lowest gain to the best gain. I have zoomed in on what I consider the most appropriate portion.
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