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Thursday, 05/11/2017 3:07:37 PM

Thursday, May 11, 2017 3:07:37 PM

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$HD Options Play on Earnings

$HD has Earnings on 5.16.2017. The company’s stock is currently trading around $156.28 in a 52 week range of $119.20-$158.15. The stock has been shown on fire over the past year with shares up 17.74% over the past 12 months. I think that the upside is in and HD will sell off on Earnings. To confirm this signal we will analyze the stocks historical movement record on earnings, the current expectations for movement being priced into the options market, the technical setup, and institutional order flow into the event.

First we will examine the stocks historical earnings performance record. We can see that over the past 8 quarters the stock has rallied 4 times on earnings day with an average move of 2.1%. This does not tell us that the stock is guaranteed to rally this quarter but it does show us that there is a slight neutral bias in the performance of HD on earnings day. This means that as we work through the rest of our analysis will have a bullish bias.

With a sense of how the stock has moved on earnings day in the past we can calculate the expected movement for this quarter. To best isolate the expected movement in HD we will use the shortest dated options that still contain the catalyst event. In this case we will use the May weekly expiry. To measure the market makers expected move we will need to calculate the price of the at the money straddle. We looked at the HD $55 strike straddle in the May weekly expiry and it is implying a whopping $5.50 move.

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