Earnings Strategies

Trading Around Earnings


Earnings season can provide ample profit opportunities, but using the wrong trading strategy can just as easily spell disaster.

For most traders seeking to profit during earnings season, there are two basic schools of thought:

General Observations

Using OptionStack, you can easily backtest various earnings strategies, including trading straddle, vertical spread, iron condor, etc..

Example


One popular strategy used by retail and institutional traders is to buy and sell a straddle around earnings announcements.

The example below  demonstrates how to backtest an earnings strategy of buying at-the-money (ATM) straddles 8 – 10 days before earnings, and closing the straddles 1  day before earnings.

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In this example,  the DaysBeforeNextEarningsDate study was used to buy straddles 8 – 10 days before every earnings announcement.

The DaysBeforeNextEarningsDate study automatically calculates the number of days until the next earnings announcement.

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