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Volatility Chart Du Jour, RIMM

Posted on August 29, 2008

OK, fool me once.....The RIMM charts have a familiar ring to them. Sometime high flyer? Check. Very low options volatility? Check. Stock itself not doing a darn thing? Check. Looks just like AAPL, FSLR, GOOG, et. al.Again, sure seems like a great time to load up on some options gamma, as RIMM rarely gets to these levels.But like I noted the other day, Time is Money. Every day you own an option where the volatility you paid is higher than the volatility of the stock itself, you cost yourself money in theory (depending upon the specifics of course). The added twist here is that the cheapness is ...

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earnings , options , volatility
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