On the same day that the Microsoft and Blizzard merger was approved by the US court, the acquisition of $Broadcom(AVGO)$ and $VMware(VMW)$ obtained approval from the European Union. When the news came out, VMW's stock price jumped more than 5% to over $156.The certainty of Broadcom's acquisition of VMW has always been higher, because VMW's major shareholder is Dell, which has sought to sell its best asset - VMW in several times to mitigate the losses in its core business. Furthermore, there have been management and board member adjustments at VMW since last winter, which means that although the acquisition has not been officially finalized, Broadcom's integration has already begun.Therefore, the acquisitio

Update on recent trading strategies for $iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF(TLT)$ and $Direxion Daily 20 Year Plus Treasury Bull 3x Shares(TMF)$ For the background on my trading opinions on TLT and TMF, please refer to the three previous articles:Is Selling Puts on TLT the Best Strategy Right Now?Why do I sell TMF calls, not TLT？Reviewing Options Trading on U.S. Treasury ETFsI began selling puts on TLT in early November. In December, I added selling calls on TMF. At that time, the trading logic was

Hello, Tiger friends, I hope you have a nice holiday. And Pray for Shanghai. I want to review Q1 trading. The first quarter is full of swings. Nothing is impossible when the War has been happened. The S&P 500 quarterly closed down nearly 5%, while the Nasdaq quarterly dropped 9%.But there were still good sectors last quarter, such as energy,raw materials and public utilities, but I don't hold them.​ Due to$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$ strong rebounded in March that made my account had no loss in the first quarter. But it was also thrilling. Review of Tesla, I sold my shares at $900 and $1000 through covered call options respectively in October last year. And then I kept doing Sell Put for several months, I earned premium of options st

A huge swing week, Chinese stocks were bloodied. Although many Chinese stocks have fallen out of the value for long-term investment. But to individual investors, value investment is so-called risky. $SBERBANK(SBER.UK)$ was almost cleared on the London Stock Exchange, and its share price fell as low as only $1 cent, finally withdrawing from LSE. When the stock price fell to around $3 on February 23rd, there were a lot of people buy in, and then it fell to $1 and then 1 cent.​ Is SBER worthless? Of course not, but the share price has completely separated from the value level, so don't discuss whether oversold is worth to buy from value level. Of course, if you have enough money, you can buy and hold. At present, I don't have any Chinese st

The general idea is similar to last week, so I dont do detailed review，you can read my review for last week if you like. The S&P 500 fell be its anual support line again in the second half of Friday night with geopolitical shocks. And It closed at a weely low point. My feeling is similar to last week, it might draw a right-leg. There is a small double-top in past two weeks, and both small tops did not rally to the MA50, it was not strong. As 

I read some Netflix's forecasts. To sum up, Q1 has no any good dramas, andits competitors are extremely strong. In March, it lost more than 1 million paid users while it stopped Russian business. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has a certain impact on new paid subscriptions in Europe. $Netflix(NFLX)$ ​Netflix Q1 Earnings are Coming: 3 Most Important Things to Watch on April 19 I noticed that Wall street's expectations for NFLX have been adjusted very low. Will it rebound sharply as long as it slightly exceeds expectations? From the perspective of options, the total amount of PUTs will expire next week is higher than CALLs, but most of CALLs is OTM, mainly around $400, but most

Hey Tigers, hope you have a good weekend.I read the article about acquisitions trading opportunities yesterday from @OptionsDelta. I have the same ideas. I think trading for acquisitions is nice and stable in this volatile year.According to my experience, the market price will be between 80% and 95% of the offer price before the deal officially done. It provides us the trading opportunities. But the biggest risk is the failure of the acquisition, so we need to evaluate the possibility of failure according to each case.I am grateful @OptionsDelta for sorting out all the specific deals that have been issued with acquisition offe

Good afternoon my tiger friends, we had a very suspenseful week, it worth spending time to go over. I opened a SPY PUT option as a hedge before the Fed meeting, and happily, the option was voided and the S&P rose sharply for 4 days in a row. I am currently holding $Apple(AAPL)$ 、 $Tesla (TSLA)$ and $Activision Blizzard (ATVI)$. The ATVI Sell Put with an exercise price of $80 that is being exercised this weekend, so I will raise to my ATVI position at $80 again, the combined cost is still $80, although the underlying stock is in a slight loss, but I did the ATVI Sell Covered Call at $82. I have been doing it for two months, and the premium has been covered the loss ove

Hello,tigers,Let's talk about  FOMC first. The Fed raised interest rates by 75bp as scheduled, and the federal funds rate rose to 2.25 ~ 2.5%, equalling the highest level after the last round of interest rate hikes at the end of 2018.In Powell's press, there are the most important words as follow. He mentioned that it will come appropriate to slow the pace of increases, which is widely interpreted as doves.The next meeting will be in September, there are two months to verify whether inflation has eased.Since last week, the beta stocks saw in a large amount of capital inflow. and QQQ took the lead in making up for the higher gap. In the past two days, big technologies missed the expectations to rise instead. All signal to the

Let's review the overall market and the trading opportunities in the stocks I've been monitoring. The interest rate decision lands, and it's as hawkish as expected, which is also in line with common sense. Anyone claiming it's unexpected must have their own problems. The 'higher for longer' stance was set as early as last year, why didn't they believe it?This basically confirms that there will be another interest rate hike in November this year, and it's time to start pricing it in. The current market adjustment also aligns with historical patterns seen in September. For those who are unsure or confused about the market's direction, I sincerely recommend keeping most of your funds in Tiger Vault for now.Another currently focused event is the government shutdown. Personally, I don't think t

Last week, the market slapped in my face. I was thinking that the rebound will last for 2-3 days, but the rebound only one day. However, I suggested that the market should not sit back and relax, and VIX was still high. Otherwise, I choose a short target is that:【Options】If only PUT one, this is it！ There are still many second-tier tech stocks will release their earnings this week. They probably continue the trend of last week, accurately blasting high-valued growth stocks. So that short $ARK Innovation ETF(ARKK)$  is still a good hedge. The indexes fell three consecutive trading days, the S&P 500 is below 4000 points, and the market was seriously oversold. CNN's Fear and

Last night, Twitter announced that Elon Musk revived a bid to buy for Twitter at the original price of $54.20 per share.​Shares of Twitter climbed 22% to $52 last trading day. I don't want to discuss why Musk change his mind on Twitter again. I want to talk about our trading opportunities.​Twitter shareholders voted Sept. 13 to accept the buyout offer as Musk submitted it. The company said at the time that 98.6% of the votes cast were in favor of the deal. That means the deal price of $54.5 is almost the final price.Usually, before the transaction closes, the market price will be a discount from the deal price, that is, Twitter's stock price will not exceed 54.5 in a short term. So we can start to sell Twitter's call opt