Dear Reader,

Earlier this week, I told you that traders are always looking to “be on the right side of the trade.”

To an options trader, this means you want to be long calls on a stock that is going up in price or long puts when a stock is going down in price.

That’s often easier said than done – take earnings season. Options premiums can fluctuate significantly going into an earnings announcement… and things can really get wild when the announcement is made and the stock price moves on the news.

The challenge, of course, is figuring out how to end up on the right side of the trade.

If the company’s report comes in and is favorable, the stock will usually gap up and open higher than it closed the day before. If you had long call options, then you were on the right side of the trade.

If earnings come in below expectations, the stock will usually gap down and open lower than the previous day’s close. In this case, long put options would put you on the right side of the trade.

That said, it can be quite difficult to judge which way a stock will move on an earnings announcement (these gaps can be pretty significant – ask anyone who has seen what The Priceline Group Inc. (NASDAQ:PCLN) or Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has done the day after their earnings announcements. While good news usually brings a pop and bad news usually signals a decline in the price of the underlying, that’s not always the case in today’s markets.

But what if I told you that can trade during earnings season without having to guess which way a stock will move?

There’s one strategy that can help you profit no matter what happens during earnings season.

Let me show you…

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The first quarter of the year is in the books, and we’ve entered a new earnings season.

Hundreds of companies, including Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google, are releasing their earnings reports this month.

And the fact of the matter is… earnings drive the markets.

This means that there are some immediate actions you’ll need to take in order to seize big profits – and prevent even bigger losses.

Now there are some trading and financial experts out there who say that earnings season is overrated.

But I strongly disagree… especially when it comes to options traders like you and me.

Here’s why…

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The March jobs report was released this morning, showing that the U.S. added 215,000 jobs, which is up from economists’ projection of 203,000 jobs.

These numbers further add to the increasing level of confidence consumers have about the economy and investors have about the markets…

And this means that we could be looking at some great trading opportunities with triple-digit profit opportunities next week.

On Wednesday, we talked about Bollinger Bands and how you can use them to play this rising investor confidence.

And as you’ll recall… I mentioned that there are two key technical patterns to follow when using this tool.

Today, I’m going to show you exactly what they are and how you can use them to maximize your profits before the bell rings on Monday.

Let’s get started.

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A couple weeks ago, we talked about how you can use the U.S. economy to pinpoint your next perfect trade.

And one of the most accurate ways to monitor the overall state of the economy is the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index, which is designed to measure the degree of optimism consumers have about the economy.

Yesterday, the Conference Board released surprising results… showing that consumer confidence improved in March, reaching a much higher level than what economists predicted last month.

Even better…

Stock prices have rebounded since the lows we saw in mid-February, reflecting the higher confidence levels in the markets.

Today, I’m going to show you how you can use that investor confidence to set up your best money-doublers.

And by the time you finish reading, you’ll have the tools you need to tell which direction a stock is going and if the price is considered high or low.

Let’s get started.

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On Tuesday, I introduced you to Munehisa Homma.

But he was much more than the “father of the candlestick chart.”

Not only is Homma credited as being the inventor of technical analysis itself… he’s also considered to be the “God of the markets” (of his time).

And legend has it that he became a rice futures trading mogul – making today’s equivalent of $10 billion.

As a rules-based trader, though, his record is what fascinates me the most…

Homma was so good at identifying profit opportunities using his price patterns that he is said to have landed 100 winning trades in a row.

In fact, he was so respected that he was appointed as an important financial advisor to the Japanese government.

Now I mentioned previously that he developed multiple candlestick patterns.

But today, we’re going to focus on the only eight you’ll need…

Let’s get started.

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No matter what technical tools we have at our disposal, certain events can happen – global or domestic – that we just have no way of predicting.

While these “prediction indicators” (like the relative strength index and the moving average convergence divergence) can warn us of trends that are forming and reversing, they can’t tell us how the markets are reacting right now.

Instead, what we need is a reliable technique that will tell us how the markets are reacting to any event … in real time.

Luckily… I’ve got it… and it happens to be one of my favorites.

You’ve seen me use it many times, including in one of our discussions last week.

And it’s over 300 years old…

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