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>> that sounds like the perfect question for professor khouw >> welcome you're not alone as individual investor interest grows, so too is the options marketplace. professor mike khouw explains how that could benefit everyone with more diverse product, well, options. it's time to risk less and make more "options action" starts right now. and let's get right to it. a slew of retailers on deck to report quarterly results next week including walmart, target and kohl's despite today's big pop in monthly sales data, our chart master says the recent retail wreckage isn't quite over yet. so, carter, what are you seeing in the charts? >> we did get data, as you mentioned. retail sales today reported that the total value are now higher than covid that's in a way bullish. but the stocks reflect it in aggregate. let's look a few charts -- the first is a comparative chart. you're looking at xrt, that's the equal weight retail etf. it's 88 stocks, it's $3 trillion

versus the s&p one compare. what we know is this index is double the performance of the s&p, up 36%, versus the s&p up 18 so the question is how much is priced in? second chart, this is a two panel chart. it's another way to look at the circumstance in question what's right here is that the xrt on top going back to its inception with its 150-day moving average on the bottom is a calculation it's just showing how far above or below the xrt has gotten. we are now just as exactly as high as we were coming off the 2009 crash and ricochet. overbought comes to mind as a phrase the third chart is a comparative chart, two-panel in this case, we're looking at

xrt on the top, and now you're looking at xrt equal weighted retail index versus the actual dominated by home depot, amazon, nike and so forth. this counter trend move on the bottom panel is relative outperformance period. every time we've gotten to the trend line, it has failed. you can see those arrows drawn there annotated the chart. the bet here is it's going to fail again as a relative outperformer and start to falter and then finally, the chart of xrt itself, you have this incredible move from the plunge low in march right back to a well-defined prior top in principle before exceeding a high, a stock will contend with the high, which is to say back in full or back away we've just now approached the former high. the thought would be to hedge, to trim before someone does its for you. >> thanks for that, carter

mike, what is the trade out of this >> so it's interesting when you're talking about equal weight which is cap weighted indices and that's the situation we have here, one of the downsides of a cap-weighted index is that you're heavily dependent on the winners of course that's also one of the good things too. whoever wins as they go up, they increase their weight to the index and of course the ones who are underperforming have a smaller and smaller impact what's interesting here is, you take a look at something like rent-a-center, that's the same weight as amazon in this particular index that's hard to imagine there's something like 15 autoparts or car dealerships in this you have to understand that, of course, given the economic environment we're in, some of these big durable goods exposures have to be in significant jeopardy now, if you're taking a look

through a volatility perspective, we've started to see volatility in the broad markets come in very much here too. we often do see increases in volatility after we get through labor day. looking ahead to that rather than trying to involve myself in some kind of a spread, i was looking out to the october put weekly trending a 1.85. you might wonder why i chose that particular expiration usually when i'm trying to follow carter's technical setups i'm looking for 60 days to 90 days the idea here is i'm trying to be able to carry through labor day, through september, sometimes an uptick in volume -- volatility. we're trading at these all-time highs here definitely some companies that haven't been on the radar, but they obviously could be exposed if we start to see some significant consumer weakness. >> tony, what do you think >> yeah, so, i really like carter's chart work here, but i will want to warn investors it's

typically quite hard to shorten this particular market especially the strength we're seeing in xrt. if you look at the constituents of this etf, you have a lot of them have rallied into earnings reports but have now stalled or started to reverse lower i do like the opportunistic play of a short here. overstock, carvana, wayfair, have stalled momentum and started to move lower. i think the key is to limit your risk as small as possible. i think that's exactly what mike is doing using a put here. for investors that want to maybe even limit their risk a little further, you could perhaps spread this and trade a put spread the trade i really like. >> why not a put spread, mike? >> i think there's two reasons for this one of them is - a lot of the names and some of the ones tony just mentioned are treading at heady valuations you start to see some kind of valuation, multiple contraction

here, combined with some general market weakness, that could hit this pretty hard i'm not opposed to spreads i love spreads, but this is a situation where if we start to see the market roll over, you're going to want to work your way into that spread wait until it starts to roll over and then look for your opportunity to sell downside strikes or roll this one this gives us more flexibility is there more risk yes. we're still looking at less than 4% of the current level of xrt by putting this on it's not a significant risk. it's a lot less risk than shorting xrt would be. >> carter, are there retailers whose charts you actually like even though you don't like the overall index. >> sure. i think walmart is quite good, target's quite good. we heard about overstock of the 88 stocks, overstock is the biggest weighting in xrt it's 5%. the next closest is 2. overstock is basically priced for bankruptcy before the covid hit. it was trading at $2

it's now at 100. if you look at all s&p 500 stocks, all technology stocks, stocks in the russell 3000, th number one performing stock of all stocks listed is overstock.com and it is the biggest weighting in this equal weighted etf >> that's staggering it's not just retailers set to report next week we're also getting more numbers out of the semiconductor space nvidia, tony what are you looking at? >> i'm looking at nvidia the stock is incredible. it's driven predominantly off of two major sectors which is gaming and cloud computing nvidia has pretty much dominated even before covid. since covid we've poured fuel on the fire we expect q2 earnings here to be fairly strong because you see gaming and semiconductors to

remain resilient through covid predominantly gaming i expect to be very strong and this is coming down to the fact that you have an xbox launching in the fall. that generally triggers gamers to upgrade their tech. nvidia has a 75% market share within i think that's going to offset some of the softness out of the cloud computing space. guidance is really important here if we look at the chart, the stock is really not a whole lot to say other than just incredible strength. it recently broke out above the 430 resistance level, it's now starting to move higher. that's the type of setup that i typically like to look for going into an earnings event the options currently are implying a fairly sizable move here but there's no hiding behind the fact that nvidia trades at a

very rich valuation, a very large premium to its peers at about 56 times next year's earnings as optimistic as i might be on this particular stock, i do think it's fairly valued and i think there's a somewhat limited upside i'm going out to september and i'm selling the 450-415 put spread here collecting about $22.60 selling the september 450s and paying about $10.60 on the september 415 put. net-net here i'm collecting about a $12 credit on this $35 wide credit spread which is just about a third of the width here that's about $12 out of the money. my break even price is 438 i'm only risking 5%. so in the unlikely event that nvidia blows out earnings,

and moves substantially lower, i'm risking only 5% of the stock trade to take this bet. >> do you like this trade? >> i definitely like the trade structure. it's almost impossible to short a stock that's this expensive and is definitely going straight up i definitely like the structure from that standpoint the street is pretty overwhelmingly bullish on the name but the stock has gotten well ahead of the average analyst price target sometimes that's a sign that investors know something that the analysts don't or at least haven't gotten around to telling us yet this is a good way to place a bearish bet. >> do you agree with the direction of this trade, carter? what do the charts look like >> you heard the word incredible twice from tony. it is just an incredible up trend. but you also heard from mike that the street is bullish 34 buys, only two sells. of those 34 analysts their price target 12 months from now is $415 the stock is at 462. are they bullish

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welcome back to "options action." we've been tackling the explosion in options volume for a while now. as you all know, you can't talk about options without talking volatility especially when it comes to the year's best performing index that would be the nasdaq 100 up a whopping 27% there's a brand-new way now to track its volatility professor khouw is here with the call to action >> i mean, this is really pretty exciting news. it's not out yet but it will be soon what we're talking about is, we're talking about the nasdaq 100 volatility index they're going to be offering futures on this subsequent to that there's going to be options trading on them. even if you don't happen to trade these products, they're going to be fairly big contract,

contracts multiplier on these futures is going to be about a thousand this matters a lot as you pointed out, the nasdaq 100 is the year's best performing index the volumes of options have essentially been exploding we can take a look at the history of options volumes traded on the list of exchanges in the united states it's gone up more than 50% over the course of the last three years. there's also been a big increase in the interest in trading in volatility strategies. and volatility strategies, it's easy enough for people who buy and sell stocks to see how much the market is moving around. these volatility products tell us how much the options market anticipate that it will move around and when you involve yourself in volatility strategies, the way money is made and lost is the difference between those two. i see this as a good complement to the vix this is broadly known as the fear index which tracks volatility on the fpx. the vix can be a little bit obscure for people to understand in order to calculate it, you

actually have to take a look at a weighted strip of options that expires 30 days from now the way most traders actually take a look is they take a look at options that are at the money. this will continuously be looking at options that are 30 days from the day you're looking at them. the first two out of the money call strikes, the first two out of the money put strikes essentially are the way to look at this. intuitively i think that's going to make a lot of sense to people and as far as i'm concerned, when we see the big uptick in volume and the information available to investors, more competition, i think that's a win-win. it's probably going to be a win on pricing, it's going to be a win on transparency and price discovery in the marketplace of course it's a big increase in investor choice. i think this is a positive development. >> tony, do you think this will be useful? >> yeah, absolutely. arguably these days when you look at an investor's portfolio it is likely to look more and

more like the nasdaq 100 index rather than the s&p 500 index. it's important to have an index that tracks your portfolio especially from an institutional perspective. the calculations here are different from the vix so that is important because the volq index is more closely aligned with what a traders actually use for their calculations whether they're using implied p perce percentile the volq calculation is much more in line with those calculations that investors use. they're going to be calculating a call deck and a put deck so you have a good understanding of skew between the call and put side these are all advantages to the volq index that i think is going to be quite interesting to look at as they launch here on october 5th. >> carter, your thoughts on this new product? >> in principle the more the

merrier, so more vehicles, more ways to participate is a good thing, not a bad thing in terms of the explosion, you think about what happened in slv, slv options never traded more than a million contracts. in the past ten sessions you have had six days where that's happened this is all to the point of more investor interest and more opportunities to do very well but of course to also hurt oneself. >> mike, last word >> the more specific you can be about the things that you want to bet on or believe in the marketplace and the more tailored you can make your bets, the better off you're gone to be that's another positive way to take a look at this. there might be opportunities to trade this product against the vix. i imagine there will be a lot of them >> up next, a cisco slide. we are breaking down how the tech stock's fallout on earnings

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ welcome back to "options action." time to take a look back at a couple of our open trades. just last week tony laid out a bullish way to play cisco into earnings >> cisco is the backbone of the

internet hardware business it currently trades at a very reasonable valuation just like john deere. it's recently made some strategic acquisitions here in the cloud security business. and i think that 2020 is going to be a turnaround year here for cisco. the trade i'm looking to do is use a september 47.5-52.5 call spread paying about $1.85 for that 47.5 call collecting about 35 cents on that 52.5 call >> as we all know, cisco's reports disappointed what are you doing now, tony >> cisco reported earnings, beat actually on both earnings and revenue but the company guided lower. what we saw is about a 9% drop in the underlying stock price. this is why we use call spreads, to limit the amount of risk we're taking stock is down 9% the strategy itself when we

tweeted on thursday morning to close out the trade, only lost about 2.5% of the underlying stock price you were able to mitigate a lot of the downside risk compared to buying the stock this is a prime example of how you can utilize options to limit your risk on a trade like this. >> meantime, khouw and carter laid out a way to play the soft commodity space for cold, hard gains. >> everyone knows what a breakout is. do they always work? of course not. but this is the setup that we look for and then we look for the catalyst we know we have earnings coming up in the next two weeks john deere here closed out at 183.50 and i think is going to 200. >> i'm going to buy the september 185 calls. those were about $6.75 sell the august 195 calls. net-net i'm spending $5.65 that's a little over 3% of the current stock price. >> john deere jumped about 5%

this week, what do you do? >> this is one of those situations where you go to a store and it says act now, and that's what you needed to do monday morning midweek it hit our target of 195. obviously this has worked in our favor. some of you may have gotten in fairly close to the price we were talking about others may have missed the boat. it is still working the way we want it to i think we're going to start seeing some decay in that 195 strike this is a trend you stay with. >> carter, you stand by that chart? >> right, all of it, very good action continued this week fertilizer names john deere obviously having a big week but the earnings are still coming next friday it's the catalyst for further gains. up next, we have your tweets and the final call ♪

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and looking forward those other times gold moved down consistently one month, three months, six months gold got a little hot. i'd take the loss and move on. >> all right, our next viewer asks, spy, march 290 puts, what do you think >> i like owning puts. obviously it's consistent with our xrt trade. that's a little bit far out and a little bit far down. 30 days. that might be my answer. it's time for the final call the last word. carter braxton worth >> xrt is a way to bet against consumer retail. we like it on the short side >> tony zhang? >> i'm looking for a continuation in the surge in gaming selling a put vertical spread in nvidia >> mike khouw. >> it looks really exciting. i'm looking forward to it. october 2nd xrt 50 strike put.

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