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Depends how it opens I think... is entry tomorrow? I am busy in the morning... Hm...

These are on my list to check for coming days. Need to check charts and confirm earnings dates though.. Earnings Date Trade Date Month Wk Stock Strategy Days Before / After Trade Exp. Days Win Loss 1/22/18 1/19/18 1 3 NFLX 3 Days Pre, Long Call -3 NFLX: Buy 40 Delta Call 7 8 0 1/17/18 1/19/18 1 3 SCHW 1 Month Post, Short Put Spread 2 SCHW: Sell 30 Delta, Buy 10 Delta Puts 40 11 1 1/30/18 1/27/18 1 4 GLW 3 Days Pre, Long Call -3 GLW: Buy 40 Delta Call 7 7 1 1/23/18 1/20/18 1 3 STT 3 Days Pre, Long Call -3 STT: Buy 40 Delta Call 7 7 1 1/30/18 1/20/18 1 3 EA 14 Days Pre, Long Call -10 EA: Buy 40 Delta Call 30 4 0 1/24/18 1/21/18 1 4 TEL 3 Days Pre, Long Call -3 TEL: Buy 40 Delta Call 7 5 0 1/31/18 1/21/18 1 4 MSFT 14 Days Pre, Long Call -10 MSFT: Buy 40 Delta Call 30 7 1 1/31/18 1/21/18 1 4 FB 14 Days Pre, Long Call -10 FB: Buy 40 Delta Call 30 6 2 1/29/18 1/22/18 1 4 GGP 7 Days Pre, Long Straddle -7 GGP: Buy 50 Delta Calls, Buy 50 Delta Puts 7 4 0 1/25/18 1/22/18 1 4 POT 3 Days Pre, Long Call -3 POT: Buy 40 Delta Call 7 7 1 1/25/18 1/22/18 1 4 WYNN 3 Days Pre, Long Call -3 WYNN: Buy 40 Delta Call 7 5 0 1/18/18 1/22/18 1 4 BK 1 Month Post, Short Put Spread 4 BK: Sell 30 Delta, Buy 10 Delta Puts 40 11 1

Closed remainder for 5.20. Altogether, in for $1.75, Out for avg $4.138. After commissions, a gain of 134.8%. And even I feel bad for closing parts of my trade too early...

Closed 1/2 at 3.55. Will close the other half later today

Out for 2.19, just over 50%. Didn't see it continuing the mad dash, decided to take profit. I'm in the official MSFT straddle, so I plan on waiting for a pullback to enter MSFT long call. I'm very delta positive right now on MSFT. BA has moved up strongly today already, so I'll either enter EOD, on a pullback, or wait for a shorter play.

It's a PE 14-1 http://tm.cmlviz.com/index.php?share_key=20180117145254_u90YRkkIUw0IPAZy

Just FYI. I forwarded this conversation to Kosta (Lead dev for Tradehawk). He's going to prioritize this and said it shouldn't be hard. He plans to auto-populate the remainder of a partially filled order into the order screen when you hit cancel so you can adjust and hit send right away.

A couple of comments related to this: For me the RV chart is the most valuable, and always will be. IV (and therefore RV) changes have closer to the same pattern each earnings cycle for the most part (more predicable). Stock price changes leading into earnings is much less predictable and just because a stock moved a lot leading up to earnings in one cycle doesn't necessarily mean it will this time. Entering trades at good RV levels with short strangle sales covering/exceeding the typical RV decline heading into earnings days is the top criteria for trade entry, IMO. The tool already has the option to display the stock price movement for prior cycles. If there is another chart of straddle performance tracking a straddle at price xxx over time, then the results can be misleading at times: I know the intent is likely to track gains due to stock price changes (gamma), but when looking at a chart like this straddle changes due to IV changes (vega) would not be readily apparent. If the trade was entered at higher IV, then straddle could show a loss even though stock price moved. Conversely, if trade was entered a good RV then straddle could show vega gain even though stock price did not move much. And vega could be an overall market thing and not stock-specific (so not repeatable from one cycle to the next). Bottom line for me is that having a chart showing past straddle price changes over time is fine... but not being able to tell how much of the change is due to gamma, vega and theta makes it not very useful to me for making a trade entry decision. Having such a chart certainly won't hurt (the more data the better), but the RV chart is the most important for trade entry decisions with the other charts providing more background.