My first year with After Hours with Option Addict is officially in the books. I came on a year ago looking to help offer fresh insights and analysis to traders looking to bridge the gap in their trading experience. We’ve been in front of some amazing opportunities together, and having come up on my anniversary I can say without question that the bar has been raised within our community, and traders are reaping the rewards of their labors.
It’s pretty rewarding to see the growth in only a years time. Let’s not forget that this year in particular has been an environment that not many professionals were able to navigate perfectly, myself included. However, with our routines and analysis, most have been able to put difficulties behind them and make incredible strides here into year end.
I have some great things planned for us in the next year. More crash courses, live events, more group interaction and projects, etc. I wanted to take a moment to thank the After Hours with Option Addict community for their participation and support and renew goals with you to make it an even better experience in the year ahead.
Thanks guys,
OA
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Where is Dr. Fly? shouldn’t the title of this blog be HIS?? LOL
Happy Anniversary again! now post those youtube links again. hehehe
Huge learning – great teaching.
Thanks OA!
And what a great year it was! I’ll smoke one for you tonight.
Thanks yo.
Yes – I’ll break out the Option Addict ashtray & fire one up in your honor as well. Congrats in the 1st year. I think you’re spectacular.
huge strides, nice work so far OA
Thanks Raul, back at you.
’tis fitting to see major rippage on your anniversary. Congrats Jeff.
I have been a professional in the equity markets since 1997. I was in fixed income before that. I have picked up some new tools from OA. It does not matter what your experience level is you can always learn and improve. OA is such a resource. This business is humbling.
I appreciate that, thank you.
very gracious of you, Señor BlueStar 😀
~Nice~ sentiment ..^ uhhuh..
😉
Happy 1st anniversary here on the pages of iBC…
Cheers to you, OA
been a hell of a ride the last year. here’s to the next one.
Remember don’t ignore fundamental analysis (LEJU/EJ vs SFUN) 🙂
Just kidding. Congrats on the year.
Now tell us, do you prefer a perfect ass or a perfect rack?
up until college, i was all about that perfect rack. now that i’m more refined and older, i prefer that perfect ass
I am surrounded by Asses but very few are Perfect.
Congratulations. Happy Anniversary. I like You are teaching what works, why works
So time to renew my subscription? Will I get an e-mail ahead of time?
anyone know why TEDU has gone apeshit today?
been fun OA thks. GWPHs gonna expire worthless, peeling out of a little TRUE
Blue birds escaped from cage. Trying to flap away now.
Congrats OA. Keep up the good work.
Congrats OA and for the anniversary I will give you a tip:
EXAS
I am long Jan 25 calls (I like longer dated stuff).
YEAH BUDDY!
Thanks for a great year. Looking forward to the next! Looking forward to shaking your hand at some point soon.
congrats , and more to come
momo’s trying to pull a 4th quarter move
Wish I would have come across this blog a year ago. thanks for all you do, OA. BTW, TWTR is ripping faces off and TRIP’s day chart is something I want pinned on my wall.
Congrats on one year. Hope you plan to hang around for awhile!!
One month into the after hours crowd and have been making money! Much to learn, am anxious to see what happens after a year’s worth of your knowledge.
Happy Anniversary!
Anyone having problems logging into the Thinkorswim desktop platform today? Keeps telling me it can’t connect to the internet even though my internet connection is working fine.
no
try deleting usergui in the thinkorswim folder in program files
its going to reset some stuff but usually works
Put a hedge on for next week – Puts NFLX 462.5
Maybe I should have waiting a little longer….
Using LNKD, as an example, it may just consolidate after the nice run…it could still run, too. I think the better setups are probably the ones talked about where its pulled back and tries to run at the recent highs again but fails (if you can catch it around there). Otherwise it’s just trend mode and pullbacks that are getting bought. (BITA/ATHM, which i didn’t think would claw back this fast, as other examples.) PNR could be played short, I thought it was earlier this week, but clearly
around $70 is the better entry. I think OA mentioned HSY earlier, for another example.
and to clarify, not recommending shorting BITA/ATHM, I was mentioning those as weakness/dips getting bought. maybe they crackdown, but that seems to be a tough play right now. I’d say roll with the flow, OA and crew got more for us to finish out the year.
Just to be clear – this was a hedge in case of geo-political melt-down over the weekend. This is not a position I would normally take as I agree with what you have said – I plan on exiting this trade on monday unless there is extremely bad juju
yeah, I get it. I had LNKD and BITA as a hedge earlier this week in case FOMC minutes spooked a selloff, but I’m glad I sold out before their rallies today. There wasn’t any traction to the downside, no follow-through for the most part.
when does the short covering in lulu happen?
margin calls usually start around 2:30pm but some might not be forced to liquidate until 3:59pm ET
Congrats my man! Glad I got past the rapper/trader pic and gave you a chance. You have proven yourself a professional in every way! JC
For fun, I had to check in on whether or not she who shall not be named is celebrating your anniversary…drum roll…with an hour to go, she is up a couple pennies, the party is on 🙂 enjoy the weekend
Lol! Yoshii, I think she can smell the free booze…
Happy Anniversary OA! Been in here since the start of the year and have learned a great deal about option trading. Also really enjoy the after hours market analysis and obviously the stock picks. Keep up the good work!
Happy Anniversary, OA – only been here two months but have learned more than I had in the previous 10 years and have actually made money on options for a change….cheers!
CBAK + GEVO building up for upside move
I was late to the party but enjoyed reading everyone’s positive reactions, so here is hoping this next year is even more awesome than the first!
OA, do you still like BORN?
Good going Jeff.
You are Still the One!
Congrats. And have please have Raul do some speaking engagments. He’s got so much to say. 🙂
And Thanks for running with the monkey bars
There should be a Top 5 Most Memorable OA Blogging Headline to celebrate the Anniversary.
Here are 3 that are vivid in my memory due to various reasons.
1. Still a Twitter Bear? (2/13/14)
2. Good Call, Dude. Start a Blog. (3/14/14)
3. GRPN Giving Shorts the Vise Grips in After Hours Trade (2/20/14)…it was memorable, because I too, was holding into this earnings release, and had even written up a last-ditch rally speech in the prior blog’s comments for GRPN. That was a rough stretch, but now we’re more experienced because of it.
Going back and reading through some of the comments during these times was fun. Glad to see several of us made it through to this point, and glad to see new avatars, too. We’d never be where we are today without the avatar impostor 🙂
In that regard, here is some avatar etiquette from our good buddy lanforce:
lanforce – February 13, 2014 at 3:08 pm
Realistically I need 4 avatars. Bullish, Bearish, pissed off at the market (and the world). My fourth will show a WW I biplane heading straight down toward the earth. I’m sure you can figger out what THAT one is for…
“Lulu shorts shitting their yoga pants”. I laughed so hard I almost shit my pants.
that was a good one, as was this one…which is a must read for anyone new:
Blog Reader Stereotypes
http://ibankcoin.com/option_addict/2013/09/24/blog-reader-stereotypes/
My favorite http://ibankcoin.com/option_addict/2013/06/06/the-ultimate-buy-signal/
http://ibankcoin.com/option_addict/2013/06/07/the-ultimate-buy-signal-wins-again/
Happy Anniversary Jeff!
-for your listening pleasure:
https://soundcloud.com/world-of-dinka/foreigner-i-want-to-know-what
Xone vjet well done jeff…glad all the new people learning the secret sauce.
Been a member for the entire year. OA is hands down the best options trader out there. Period. End of story. Thanks Fly for putting him on the blog and making him accessible. Tremendous added value.
X up almost 1% to over $38 after hours. I didn’t see a news item. Getting closer to that $39.88 price target.
Congrats OA. Learned a lot from following you this past year.
Congrats on the one year. I’ve learned so much from you in the 8 months I’ve followed you. Look forward to many more! Also, reading the headline “GRPN Giving Shorts the Vise Grips in After Hours Trade” just cracked me up. Truly a hilarious moment (if only in hindsight).
You just drew a cock.
My favorite…Raul drew one this week.
TWTR to $60 for Christmas. Santa gave you $70
I’ll give you max 18 months before these people drive you insane and into another arena .
A promissory note that will only be extended if wrong is a good way of avoidance of facing the facts right now.
Seek psychological help. Not an insult or joke. That is a serious suggestion… Something is clearly not right within you, and it is not your help, but your responsibility to yourself and those around you to try to fix going forward.
Only someone not right feels need to incessantly and enviously troll on the internet of all places on a professional service that others are happy with and have been successful with. It shows jealousy and deep insecurity issues of your own perceived lack of success.
Nothing shows someone is insecure about how very insecure about how small they are in influence and stature as much as calling themselves Mr. big and trolling on the internet. Do yourself a favor and seek therapy. If you don’t like it here, no one is forcing you to stay like some goofy compulsive weirdo. Aside from purely as an indicator their sentiment thesis is still intact, no one likes a hater.
There are things you are doing to cause the reactions and surroundings in life you get and position you are in. Blaming someone externally is a sign of neurosis. You may try to distort reality in the mind as all minds do when admitting failure and the truth is too painful, but it is the only way forward. Living the rest of your life in a self induced victim role is not worth it over a small bit of pride. You did the best you could with what you had and no one can blame you for that so it is not your fault, but going forward at some point you need to take responsibility and fix whatever it is that is causing this delusional, obsessive, confused, insecure behavior.
… That is all.
how bout me and big man take u out back and kick ur head in
then u can analyze that? faggot
+1
How about not acting like an insecure child and not using an internet tough guy shtick that doesn’t even scare the frightened correspondent Joe Machi:
http://youtu.be/YcVCfmkemmE
How about if I obscure your vision so you won’t have to see these offensive posts .
Free of charge , I will do a pedicle flap procedure from your forehead to your scrotrum . Trust me , this will be a good
look for you .
Love Joe Machi!
Duder is 0/2 on AMZN yolos in the last two weeks.
If this keeps up, maybe we can get an inverse etf of his picks.
A unique educational experience for stock outsider. After awhile you realize there’s nothing like, even the part where you have bring something to it yourself. Think and interpret. And fun to follow good picks. Thanks OA
Still…
FSLR when will it?
YGE when?
LULU when?…
fslr – big move over the next 8 days
yge – big move over the next 8 weeks
lulu – big move over next 8 months
& I do like eght eventually over 8.28
I was actually kidding but that’s awesome to know!
Jeff, I don’t belong to any of our paid services, but I’ve been using your teachings to learn, the world can use more teachers. I’ve never traded an option in my life, and only went live in June trading equities(real estate analyst by trade). Read Peter Lynch, reasing Ben Graham, all the finance classes never told us anything about techinical analysis, thank you, you’re a good man.
Indeeeeud
Thanks OA! I’ve learned a ton from both of your services.
Trading services (no homo)
Why aren’t futures open yet?
September is the strongest month for lulu
if the stock hits 75 next week do we take profits, ride the options til expiration or sell itm and switch them for otm
If that happens I’ll be able to afford to pay Kohler enough to manage my account for me!
do you think AAPL can run a little longer OA? thanks!
Happy anniversary, Jeff! Keep up the great work!
use this drop to buy $qihu?
$NVAX with a mini boner.
Excessive fighting on the Internet is like being in the special olympics… Even if you win, you’re still retarded.
Just as ignorance shines most with those that are truly ignorant!
What? Is that not PC?
🙂
Happy anniversary, OA!
SINA finding buyers right where in needed to, let’s see if they possess the conviction to make the other side flinch
QIHU dip was snapped up violently. hope that fares well for SINA.
my $sina calls up 17%
any Addicts still long VNET calls?
Me.
been long since the call. nice retest after entry and no reason to sell since.