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Option Trades
Ten short-term options plays, built around the week's catalysts. Every trade expires by the Friday of next week at the latest, and most expire sooner. Each one takes a side, names its strikes and states its exits before the event, not after. These are paper trades for money that can go to zero.
By Atul Ghandhi · Updated August 25, 2026
Long callexp Fri, Aug 28
The bar dropped 3% the day before the biggest print of the quarter.
Open the trade →Long callexp Fri, Aug 28
Halved from its high and priced for a bad answer, hours before the answer.
Open the trade →Long straddleexp Fri, Aug 28
A stock that swings 3% on quiet days reports Thursday. Both directions are for sale.
Open the trade →Long callexp Fri, Aug 28
The trade-down winner reports Thursday morning with a 21% average beat behind it.
Open the trade →Long callexp Fri, Sep 4
Earnings Thursday and live take-private talks. Two ways to win in eight sessions.
Open the trade →Long callexp Fri, Sep 4
A 34% grower guided to 30%, reporting into a tape that just marked it down.
Open the trade →0DTE long putexp Fri, Aug 28 (0DTE)
A new Fed chair speaks Friday morning. The market gives a hike one chance in three.
Open the trade →Long straddleexp Fri, Sep 4
PCE, Nvidia, Warsh and the jobs report inside one expiry. Direction optional.
Open the trade →Long putexp Fri, Sep 4
Small caps into a hawkish Fed and a jobs print. The rate-sensitive end of the market.
Open the trade →Long putexp Fri, Sep 4
The 30-year sits at 5.27% and the relief rally lasted a week. Fade the bounce.
Open the trade →How This Board Works
The board hunts big moves. It buys options on stocks that moved hard or face a dated catalyst inside the window: an earnings print, a Fed speech, a jobs report, live deal talks. Scared money stays in index funds, and it should.
Every trade page states three exits up front: a profit order, a loss cut and a time stop. Selling a winner early or cutting a loser at half is part of the trade, not a failure of nerve. The one exception is an event hold, where the print is the whole thesis and the position rides through it.
Entry prices are verified closes, and each page says which session its numbers come from. The chain tables carry Cboe delayed quotes and refresh hourly. The ten URLs never change: trades rotate through the same ten slots each day, so yesterday's link always shows the current trade.