So is it possible for one tell if a company’s actual earnings will beat analysts’ earnings forecast, before the actual earnings result is announced publicly? Allow me to just share some techniques that people that I came across use to try to predict earnings:

Estimate the earnings-per-share (EPS) figure from the number of products the company […]

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After attending Dr Clemen’s Freely Seminar in 2006, the first strategies that I use to trade options were using earnings gaps. Why I trade them in the first place? What are earnings? What are gaps?
Listed companies in the United States are required to announce their profits and revenue to the world every quarter (3-monthly). This […]

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This is JMOT reporting live at the Options Trading Championships 2007 :D. I saw Christine Tan from CNBC in person! CNBC was here to report the event! This speaks about the profile of the Options Trading Championships. The man behind this all: Dr Clemen Chiang of Freely Pte Ltd.
Freely has been running seminars teaching options […]

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This week besides being options expirations week, yesterday (17 Oct 07) also marks the opening of the Options Trading Championship 2007. It will take place over a duration of 3 days between 17 Oct 07 to 19 Oct 07, coinciding with the last three days of the options expirations week intentionally to […]

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I was ploughing the internet for trading material when I came across swing-trade-stocks.com. In a matter of an hour or two, I managed to pick up a couple of swing trading systems, use of indicators, reading of chart and candlestick patterns, money management concepts etc. Read under the “Learn“, “Strategy” and the “Articles” sections […]

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