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Trading around earnings

Swing Trading

Binary event, defined risk

Earnings gaps ignore your stops. Either size down to survive any gap, exit before the print, or trade the POST-earnings drift once the dust settles. Holding size through earnings is gambling.

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The professional default into earnings is…

  1. Triple the position
  2. Reduce or exit, the gap risk is unpriceable correct
  3. Ignore the date

You can't stop-loss through a gap. If you can't define the risk, don't hold the size.

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