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Trade Alert: Earnings 8/9/2023

Continuing our trade experiment with three bearish trades.

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Aug 09, 2023
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One of our trades today is a bet against the maker of Hush Puppies.

Continuing Our Experiment

In our previous post, we looked at what may be an easier way to make money than our recent earnings trades.

In this post, we’re going back to the harder way.

Recall that we’ve been looking at four metrics when placing these earnings trades:

  1. LikeFolio’s earnings score based on social data. The higher the number, the more bullish, the lower (more negative) the number, the more bearish.

  2. Portfolio Armor’s gauge of options market sentiment.

  3. Chartmill’s Setup rating. On a scale of 1-10, this is a measure of technical consolidation. For bullish trades, I want a high setup rating; for bearish trades, a lower one.

  4. Zacks Earnings ESP (Expected Surprise Prediction). This is a ratio of the most accurate analyst’s earnings estimate versus the consensus estimate.

In a post over the weekend, I mentioned a new approach I was going to try this week, using the Piotroski F-Score as an additional screen.

Adding F-Scores to our screens today gave us three bearish names:

  1. Social -22, F-Score 3, PA Options Sentiment Bearish, Setup 5, Zacks ESP 0%

  2. Social -25, F-Score 2, PA Options Sentiment Very Bearish, Setup 4, Zacks ESP 0%

  3. Social -54, F-Score 3, PA Options Sentiment Bearish, Setup 8, Zacks ESP 0%

Details below.

The Bearish Trades

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