Why Earnings Season Is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year for Traders Like Us

If you've traded for more than a few months, you've seen how earnings season can really move share prices - in both directions. If you hold, say, a blue chip and it hits on earnings, you can book some nice single- or double-digit gains. Or, if there's a miss, you might take a loss. In fact, earnings season trading is one of the most volatile strategies you can use. It's not for the faint-hearted. But I'm going to show you a simple trade that you can use to leverage earnings news - good or bad - to make fast (and safe) triple-digit gains. And you can do it with some of the biggest, most liquid stocks on Wall Street. Now is the perfect time to do it. My "money calendar" is flush with opportunities coming up this trading week ending July 24. So, let's "scout" my earnings chart to see exactly where our next winning trade is... Tags: $CMG , Chipotle earnings , Chipotle Mexican Grill stock , Chipotle Stock , CMG earnings , CMG puts , CMG stock , earnings season , money calendar , NYSE: CMG , options trading To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2015 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post Why Earnings Season Is the Most Wonderful Time of the Year for Traders Like Us appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .