Straddle for earnings, part 5

Wow quite a violatile today. Dow was way up the morning, my EMC option actually hit a double today! Woo hoo. Too bad it's down a bit at the end of the day.

click to enlarge - EMC 5 days:

click to enlarge - EMC 1 year:


I just got in during Aug down week and Thursday before VMWare IPO'd. Quite a lucky timing I guess. The options didn't go below the level i bought at ever since.

click to enlarge - VMW after few months:


Anyway, to see if my straddle strategy will work, I bought 1 straddle of AMZN $95 January straddle today for around $19.57 after commission. AMZN was down $5 today alone. So we'll see what happens after earnings.

click to enlarge - amzn straddle:


As for my YHOO that I bought last week, both Call and Put premium increased today. Even though YHOO swinged downwards today, My profit winged from CALL's side inthe morning to PUT's, but both were gaining. I know this is greedy, but earnings is next week. Hope it will move the stock.

click to enlarge - yhoo straddle: