Trading on Corporate Earnings News: Profiting from Targeted, Short-Term Options Positions

Author:   John Shon ,  Ping Zhou
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
ISBN:  

9780137084920


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 April 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Profit from earnings announcements, by taking targeted, short-term option positions explicitly timed to exploit them! Based on rigorous research and huge data sets, this book identifies the specific earnings-announcement trades most likely to yield profits, and teaches how to make these trades—in plain English, with real examples!   Trading on Corporate Earnings News is the first practical, hands-on guide to profiting from earnings announcements. Writing for investors and traders at all experience levels, the authors show how to take targeted, short-term option positions that are explicitly timed to exploit the information in companies’ quarterly earnings announcements. They first present powerful findings of cutting-edge studies that have examined market reactions to quarterly earnings announcements, regularities of earnings surprises, and option trading around corporate events. Drawing on enormous data sets, they identify the types of earnings-announcement trades most likely to yield profits, based on the predictable impacts of variables such as firm size, visibility, past performance, analyst coverage, forecast dispersion, volatility, and the impact of restructurings and acquisitions. Next, they provide real examples of individual stocks–and, in some cases, conduct large sample tests–to guide investors in taking advantage of these documented regularities. Finally, they discuss crucial nuances and pitfalls that can powerfully impact performance.

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Author:   John Shon ,  Ping Zhou
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Financial TImes Prentice Hall
Dimensions:   Width: 14.60cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 20.70cm
Weight:   0.326kg
ISBN:  

9780137084920


ISBN 10:   0137084927
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   21 April 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     xii About the Authors     xiii Preface     xiv PART I: INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: Introduction     3 PART II: THEORY: EARNINGS ANNOUNCEMENTS AND EARNINGS SURPRISES Chapter 2: Earnings Announcements: Why Are They So Important?     13 Chapter 3: Earnings Surprises: Definition and Measurement     23 Chapter 4: Earnings Surprises: Empirical Evidence     39 PART III: EVIDENCE: MARKET REACTIONS Chapter 5: Market Reactions to Earnings Announcements     49 Chapter 6: Market Reactions to Earnings Surprises (Are Full of Surprises)     57 PART IV: IMPLEMENTATION: OPTIONS TRADING STRATEGIES Chapter 7: General Characteristics of Optioned Companies and Options Behavior Around Earnings Announcements     71 Chapter 8: Practical Considerations Before Implementing Trades     77 Chapter 9: Directional Bets: Long Calls, Bull Call Spreads, Long Puts, and Bear Put Spreads    97 Chapter 10: Long Straddle and Strangle Strategies     111 Chapter 11: Short Straddle and Strangle Strategies     135 PART V: FINE TUNING: IMPROVING THE ODDS OF A PROFITABLE TRADE Chapter 12: Growth Expectations and the Torpedo Effect     153 Chapter 13: Revenue and Expense Surprises     161 Chapter 14: Earnings Surprise Persistence     167 Chapter 15: Other Theories and Evidence     175 References     189 Index     197

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John Shon is Professor of Accounting at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and Graduate School of Business Administration. He has received several teaching awards throughout his teaching career. Shon publishes extensively in academic journals and has received several grants and awards for his research on equity markets. He holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.   Ping Zhou, Portfolio Manager and Senior Vice President of the Quantitative Investment Group at Neuberger Berman, currently manages U.S. and global equity funds for institutional investors. Zhou’s expertise is in portfolio theory, market anomalies, investor behavior, corporate finance, and risk management. He previously served as Accounting Professor at City University of New York—Baruch College. He holds a Ph.D. in Accounting from Georgia State University.

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