{"id":163,"date":"2021-07-15T02:12:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/?p=163"},"modified":"2021-07-15T02:12:27","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:12:27","slug":"going-up-trust-the-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"Going up &#8211; trust the flow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In my past few posts I talked about knowing the high level flows while also understanding the lower level, tactical market conditions.  That&#8217;s why I bought into Google and Amazon when they dropped a few months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you know, I am pretty involved with derivatives and my option calls are up 57% (Amazon) and 46% (Google) through the last 2 months.  And I expect them to run into the Quarter end as I actually expect decent earnings growth for both.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases you see the stocks drop going into earnings.  But I expect with Amazon&#8217;s potential to split and Google&#8217;s likelihood for another good quarter, I will likely hold until the Earnings are announced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, depending on Amazon&#8217;s story, I may just hold it until it crosses $4000 (and more depending on a split announcement).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, this cam about because I trusted things would be relatively even on the inflation\/Fed side (from a high level) and I also understand the quarterly cycle of the stocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, if the stocks do dive in the next few weeks, I will have to decide whether to double down or just hold.  I think I am safe for two weeks though (with some potential upside).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my past few posts I talked about knowing the high level flows while also understanding the lower level, tactical market conditions. That&#8217;s why I bought into Google and Amazon when they dropped a few months ago. As you know, I am pretty involved with derivatives and my option calls are up 57% (Amazon) and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/?p=163\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going up &#8211; trust the flow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agoodretirement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}