Marketgems Earnings Trader- Trading Strong or Weak Earnings Growth

[John NY]

Hey Jenna, Glad to see you here and on new service.

I went for some Oct 30 QQQ Puts the start of Sept. as it looked like a steep move up there at $34 and after a number of up waves, a fairly large distance up from averages, 4 weeks almost straight line up, possible exhaustion, top of channel, and other reasons like earnings coming.

I normally would strangle and allow for profit on either side, but this time around I was a bit more bearish. Anyway, not much volatility and that's bad for strangles, so I actually saved by being on one side and not losing on both sides.

What do you make of the way this recent (since mid April) upswing seems to have V troughs and rounded peaks? On the one hand the bottoms come up fast - opportunities seen by buyers, on the other hand, there's a supply at the tops and the pauses are longer at the supply?