Cabot Profit Booster Update 9/17/2020
Tomorrow is the expiration of five of our September covered call trades. It was another great month for the Cabot Profit Booster portfolio!
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Jacob Mintz
Jacob Mintz is a professional options trader and editor of Cabot Options Trader. Using his proprietary options scans, Jacob creates and manages positions in equities based on unusual option activity and risk/reward.
Jacob developed his proprietary system during his years as an options market maker on the floor of the Chicago Board of Options Exchange, where he ran several trading crowds for nearly 10 years.
After a successful career on the trading floor Jacob was tasked with setting up a trading desk at a top-tier options trading company, trading against the most sophisticated hedge funds and institutions in the world.
Today Jacob trades for himself, coaches and teaches about options trading, and runs our Cabot Options Trader and Cabot Options Trader Pro advisories. Jacob lives in North Carolina with his wife and two kids who keep him very busy with their sports and social calendars.
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Articles by Jacob Mintz
Cabot Profit Booster 141
Fertilizer companies aren’t the sexiest names on Wall Street, but the sector has shown an ability to trend when conditions are right, and that time looks to be here.
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Cabot Profit Booster 140
The online casino market has experienced rapid growth this year as more states legalize so-called iGaming to supplement faltering tax revenues.
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Cabot Profit Booster 139
Today's recommendation had been in a slow, steady uptrend for years, though it got dented with everything else in March of this year.
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The Biggest Bullish Option Trade I’ve Ever Seen
Why am I very bullish on the market right now? Because the most bullish option trade I've ever seen keeps happening every day.
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Cabot Profit Booster 138
For now our positions remain in great shape, and this week we are adding a stock that we successfully traded in March, and has shown no signs of pulling back after an earnings blowout last week
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Cabot Profit Booster Update 8/24/2020
On Friday this recommendation closed at 14.74, which was below the August 15 strike that we had sold last month. Because the stock closed below 15 the calls that we sold for $1.65 expired worthless. This is a good situation.
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The Greatest Options Trade I Ever Saw
Let me tell you about the greatest options trade I saw in my 10 years on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange (CBOE) - and what I learned from it.
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Cabot Profit Booster Update 8/20/2020
The spectacular results from the Cabot Profit Booster portfolio continued in August as we will likely close four positions tomorrow for yields as high as 17%.
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Cabot Profit Booster 137
Although June housing starts were down by 4% over last year, they rose 17.3% from the month prior to an annualized rate of 1.19 million (nicely higher than forecast).
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Cabot Profit Booster 136
With nearly four million apps in Google Play Store, developers face the daunting task of targeting potential customers. Today's recommendation makes this effort easier by simplifying the app advertising, delivery and tracking process, helping developers and digital advertisers increase revenue and user engagement scale...
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My Peloton (PTON) and Purple Innovations (PRPL) Covid Purchases
Purple Innovations (PRPL) and Peloton (PTON) have been two of the market's hotter stocks. I recently found out first-hand why.
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Cabot Profit Booster 135
People are flocking to the company’s hobby photo- and video-sharing application, posting pics and videos of their cooking masterpieces, children’s activities, business décor ideas and just about any other creative task you can imagine.
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How to Hedge a Joe Biden Presidential Victory
A Joe Biden election this November is seeming increasingly possible. Regardless of how you feel about that outcome, here's how to hedge it.
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Cabot Profit Booster 134
Extreme sector rotation has been the story of the last week as red-hot growth sectors came under some pressure, while out of favor value stocks finally found some buying. This is a fine situation for our diversified portfolio as we are selling expensive that...
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Cabot Profit Booster 133
While we’re not normally fans of very low-priced stocks (you usually get what you pay for in the market), today's recommendation has been around for a while, is liquid and is just beginning what looks like a multi-year growth wave thanks to two drivers...
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Cabot Profit Booster Update 7/17/2020
It was another fantastic month for the Cabot Profit Booster portfolio, and with today being the expiration of July options we are likely going to close seven positions for full profits ranging from 5.4% to 12.3%.
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Cabot Profit Booster 132
Some 100 gigawatts of solar power projects were completed last year, and after some virus-related issues, there's every reason to expect even faster deployment of solar in the future. That should help today's recommendation, a provider of residential solar electricity via solar panels battery...
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If We’re Making Money Trading Options, Who is Losing?
My subscribers and I have made a lot of money trading options this year. Which begs the question: who is on the losing end of these trades?
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Cabot Profit Booster 131
Any doubts surrounding the work-from-home secular theme were dispelled by the pandemic, as remote platforms are now more prevalent than ever, and it should stay that way—recent surveys point out that up to three quarters of companies anticipate remote work being part of long-term...
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