Earnings Calendar for October: Profit With Options

Within the next month 80% of the S&P 500 companies will report earnings. Many of these earnings will exceed expectations due to the near-collapse of the U.S. Dollar, as companies that do significant business outside the U.S will repatriate those earnings at very advantageous exchange rates.

However, many companies will also disappoint, those that do not export significantly, and those in the many sectors where there is no recovery, and these are many.

This is a prime situation to use earnings straddles, where investor can profit whether the stock moves up or down, as long as it moves. As usual, we will be looking at attractive companies to do just this. Please stay tuned.

You can see my list of companies with earnings for October here.

For the next week only, here is the list:

7-Oct Acuity Brands, Inc.
7-Oct ALCOA Inc
7-Oct Costco Wholesale Corporation
7-Oct Family Dollar
7-Oct Helen of Troy Ltd
7-Oct KAYNE ANDERSON ENERGY DEV CO
7-Oct Monsanto Company
7-Oct Premier Exhibitions Inc.
7-Oct Richardson Electronics
7-Oct Ruby Tuesday
7-Oct Wolverine World Wide Inc.

8-Oct
8-Oct International Speedway
8-Oct Marriott International
8-Oct Nu Horizons Electronic
8-Oct PepsiCo
8-Oct SANDVINE CORP

13-Oct
13-Oct CSX Corporation
13-Oct Domino's Inc.
13-Oct Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering
13-Oct Intel Corporation
13-Oct Johnson & Johnson
13-Oct KMG Chemicals
13-Oct Linear Technology
13-Oct OSI Geospatial
13-Oct OSI Systems