Stock Market Calendar - Holiday Schedule

CRM - After Earnings Announcement

In make a play after the earnings announcement its a test of ones skill, as in life. Most options player love the fact that they enter an stock underlying before the announcement, but only to find that the where right in the direction.

However, the IV in the option sux out the premiums and you mostly found yourself on the losing side of the earnings play. Well the above was to take a position after the earnings.

As you can see, CRM still had downward pressure on the earnings announcement that this weekly option play paid you out.

50 x .55 = $2,800 debit
50 x 1.60 = $5,000 credit

or

10 x .55 = $500 debit
10 x 1.60 =$1,000 credit

Disclaimer: Friday Weekly - Options are not for the faint at heart, you are fight for this market not to break your bank... Risk on fund you're able to loss and keep your losses small.

BIDU - Weekly OptionsEx

Nice little weekly option, play on a flat liner of a Friday OptionsEx.

100 x .78 = $7,800 debit
100 x 3.00 = $21,000 credit

or

50 x .78 = $3,800 debit
50 x 3.00 = $10,000 credit

SPY = Weekly

SPY - Flat Liner

Market gear up for the SuperCommittee and the Holiday Season. As you can see, Friday was a flat liner for the S&P 500.

XOM - Mid Day Scan

This was a mid day scan of the Most Active list, the XOM NOV 77.50 where in play. Open around .12 and moved .57 for a high, but could have been higher if some one hit the bid when it was .65 on the day.

SPY - Waterfall

US Dollar is putting some major pressure on this market and we like the fact it has brought, back some major Volatility back into the market.

PCLN NOV 530 C

These were the lotto ticket today.

AAPL - Drop?

AAPL didn't take to much of a dip today, so where do we go from here... AMZN just relased the Kindle Fire one day earlier, though the Kindle Fire is receiving less-than-glowing reviews, Amazon (AMZN +1.7%) is outperforming today, while Barnes & Noble (BKS -2.7%) is selling off after rallying strongly last week (I, II). An in-depth Wired interview with Jeff Bezos, in which he goes over Amazon's hardware, content, and web services strategies, could be giving bulls some encouragement.

• 7:44 AM The first reviews for Amazon's (AMZN) Kindle Fire are ambivalent. "The Fire does not have anything like the polish or speed of an iPad (AAPL)," says the NYT's David Pogue. Engadget calls the device "a great value," and loves its content integration, but also writes, "When stacked up against other popular tablets, the Fire can't compete."
• Sunday 8:37 AM While "the pricey Android" guys are likely to feel the immediate brunt of the $199 Kindle Fire (AMZN), Brooke Crothers believes the iPad (AAPL) will be vulnerable in the longer term. The impact is "as inevitable as the $999 MacBook Air," which began life in the $1,800-$3,000 range.

CAT - Weekly Play

This was a good payday for Friday... Could have been in the trade at .08 - .09 and punched out at 1.20; which would have been a good number.

50 Contracts at .09 to 1.20 = 5K off a (5 hundred investment)

100 Contracts at .09 to 1.20 = 10K off a (1K investment)

GS vs Italy

9:32 AM In a 10-Q filing today, Goldman Sachs (GS -3.9%) discloses that AIG has threatened to sue over its MBS dealings with the firm. Goldman also raises its expectations of costs stemming from mortgage-related lawsuits from $485M to $15.8B.

6:25 AM Sources say Goldman Sachs (GS) is looking to raise about $1.5B by unloading part of its stake in Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). Shares of ICBC have recovered about 50% from their October lows.

JEF - To Big Fail or To Big To Hedge

$JEF Net long cash of $91M, and $100M short futures. The bulk is L&S involve Italian debt. Hedged?!?

Monday Nov 7th - Earnings Release

Priceline.com Incorporated (PCLN) is a global online travel company that offers its customers a range of travel services, including the opportunity to purchase hotel room reservations, car rentals, airline tickets, vacation packages, cruises and destination services in a price-disclosed manner.

This is company has a confirmed earnings release on 11/07/2011 at 4:05 PM ET, After Close with no scheduled Conference Call . This will be a news-maker and whom will benefit from this news-maker.

Look at the Related companies in this companies sector. They are Expedia, Inc. (EXPE) and Travelzoo, Inc. (TZOO).

DISH Network Corporation (DISH) is a pay-television provider, with approximately 14.133 million customers across the United States as of December 31, 2010.

This is company has a confirmed earnings release on 11/07/2011 at 6:00 AM ET, Before Open with a Conference Call scheduled for 12:00 PM ET. This will be a news-maker and whom will benefit from this news-maker.

Look at the Related companies in this companies sector. They are Netflix, Inc. (NFLX) and DIRECTV (DTV).

News Maker Sympathy - Option InPlay

Qualcomm among gainers as tech stocks rise

(9:48 AM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tech stocks claimed the high ground in early trading Thursday, with Qualcomm Inc. QCOM +0.14% up $3.62 a share, or 7%, at $55.87 following its upbeat quarterly results. Storage-memory developer Fusion-io Inc. FIO +0.85% also performed well, rising $22.4 a share, or 7%, to $34.12 after it swung to a quarterly profit.

Based off this News-marker - Weekly Option InPlay

CBS profit climbs 38% on streaming fees, ad sales

(4:11 PM ET) CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- CBS Corp. CBS -2.12% said Thursday its third-quarter profit rose 38% on increased international syndication sales, primetime advertising sales and streaming video licensing fees from Netflix Inc. NFLX -0.21% and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -0.12% , topping most Wall Street forecasts. The entertainment giant said it earned $338 million, or 50 cents a share, on sales of $3.37 billion, compared with a profit of $245 million, or 35 cents a share, on revenue of $3.30 billion in the same period last year. Analysts polled by FactSet Research were expecting a profit of 46 cents a share on revenue of $3.44 billion.

Based off this News-marker - NFLX 90 NOV WK C 2.95 from .53

Futures Prior to European Open