$31 is what the Google trade cost me.

That is not a typo for $3,100 or $31,000. One contract, 31 dollars, on a company worth north of $4.2 trillion.

It came back $90, which is a 190% overnight return on less than what it costs to go out for dinner.

That number breaks people's brains the first time they see it. Everybody assumes the marquee names are for the big accounts, that Apple and Microsoft and Tesla take serious money to touch around earnings.

That Google trade ran 31 dollars back in July and returned $90. Apple came back $148 on a $53 ticket.

Microsoft is the one that catches people, because the stock trades north of $500 a share and the trade cost 60 dollars, paying $202 back out for a 238% return.

CrowdStrike is the one I keep pointing at. $40 on June 3, closed the next day at $250. That is 525%, and CrowdStrike beat on earnings that night, beat on revenue, raised guidance and announced a stock split, and the stock dropped 11% anyway.

Tesla, eBay, Walmart, Meta, Qualcomm, IBM and American Express all came in inside that same range.

The most expensive one I put on in six months cost 73 dollars, and that was the ceiling on my downside. It holds whether the company beats, misses, guides down, or gets torched by an analyst on CNBC the next morning.

Some of them expire worthless every season. What I built this around is making sure the ones that land pay several times what the misses cost, so the arithmetic does the work instead of my opinion.

I have no idea whether a company is going to beat, and neither does anyone on television. I sat on the executive team of a public company, read our numbers a week before they went out, and still got run over.

None of these trades required a prediction about the company.

I am showing exactly how they get built at noon Eastern tomorrow, live, in the market, with real orders going up while you watch. 

There are 179 companies reporting tomorrow and another 285 on Thursday, so there is no shortage of money-making opportunities. 

Heck, I might even place a few trades live with you. 

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To your success,
Don Kaufman