This document outlines strategies for earning profits from options surrounding company earnings announcements. It discusses researching historical data to identify patterns in stock price and option pricing movements related to earnings. Specific strategies mentioned include playing options on companies that typically have large price moves after earnings versus those with smaller moves, pairing options between companies in the same industry with one announcing earnings, and identifying companies that tend to continue moving in price after the announcement. The document also describes premium alert services that identify opportunities based on these strategies.

1. EARNING PLAYS
‘Money Making Strategies’
Ricardo Sáenz de Heredia Murray
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2. INTRODUCCION
• Strategic Plays on Earnings Announcements
• Medium & High Volume Stock Options
• Implied Volatility Increases
• Prices can Move………….. A lot
• Traditional Strategies
• New Strategies
• Price and Volume Patterns.
• Levels of Accumulation/Distribution.
• Personalised Volatilty Indicators.
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3. SOFTWARE RESEARCH TOOLS
Base of Strategies from Optionvue
- Sophisticated Search Algorithms
- Research on 2 years of Data (8 Earnings Seasons)
- Search Executed every Weekend
Pick the Best Strategies on (Refinement)
- OptionElements Proprietary Algorithmic Systems & ‘In- House’
Transaction Optimiser (using Quantstart)
- Price & Volume Patterns
- Levels of Accumulation & Distribution
- Personalised Volatility Indicators
- Risk Manager & Execution Engine 3

4. 1. PRIME MOVERS
Stocks that make big moves - options tend to be
undervalued.
2. PRIME NON-MOVERS
Stocks that make smaller-than-expected moves, options
tend to be overvalued.
3. EARNINGS PAIRS
Two stocks in the same industry, only one of which is
announcing earnings. Play the second stock.
STRATEGIES
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5. 4. ECHOES
Two stocks in the same industry, with one announcing 1-18
days after the other. Play the second in the direction of the
first.
5. RUNNERS
Stocks that tend to "run" in price after the earnings
announcement. Play in the direction of its open for the day
STRATEGIES
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BACK-TESTING

7. ‘PREMIUM ALERT SERVICES’ AT
CAPITAL DISCUSSIONS
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1. PLATINUM RUT 2000 (weekly alerts)
2. GOLDEN EARNINGS PLAY (weekly alerts)
3. THE VOLATILITY EDGE (longer term alerts)
(We do all the work, You just follow the alert!)

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PLATINUM RUT 2000

9. 999
GOLDEN EARNINGS PLAYS

10. 1010
THE VOLATILITY EDGE

11. THANK YOU
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