Earning season comes around four times a year for stocks and as traders we've always loved

the idea of trading these events for the crush and implied volatility and quick potential moves in the

options strategy position however after analyzing 1,546 earnings events across 40 underlying

over 10 years, we decided to stop trading earnings events completely. And in today's podcast,

I'm going to walk through the research on earnings moves and how different option strategies performed under various setups and conditions.

You're listening to the Option Alpha Podcast from Option Alpha.com, where we show you how to make smarter trades, learn how the stock market really works and generate consistent monthly income.

Now, your host and head trader at Option alpha.com Kirk depluses.

Hey everyone this is Kirk here again from option alpha.com working every single week to make

this the most popular investing podcast offered online because it's

based on one thing and one thing only and that's helping you consistently play smarter, more profitable

trade. So again, thank you so much for tuning in today. On today's episode, we're going to go through all of the new research around why we stopped trading earnings. Now, truth be told, this research isn't really that new because we actually released it back in 2018

and we've been talking about this for quite some time but we just actually haven't come

around to the point of actually dedicating an entire podcast episode to it.

So it should come as no surprise to many people who continue to follow us or follow our trading and

strategies that we've stopped trading earnings for quite some time. In fact, we started to remove

some of the content around earnings on the website because of this new research

that we completed at the end of 2018.

Now I want to say this as we start this podcast.

This is how I'm personally trading now, so I decided to stop trading earnings I think after

you listen to some of this research you would probably make the same assumption there's definitely

a case for potentially making some earnings trades and we definitely will lay that out in the podcast

if you remove some of the tickers

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