Salesforce.com Inc. (CRM)

Update 8/23/2017: CRM met Street expectations with earnings of 33 cents per share. The stock price fell by about a dollar and a half immediately after the earnings announcement, and then after the opening bell returned to where it had closed the night before the announcement. I exited at 42.8% of maximum potential profit.

Shares showed a net decline during my one-day holding period of 0.4%, or a -142% annual rate. The options position produced a 74.8% return for a +27,297% annual rate.

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CRM publishes earnings on Tuesday after the closing bell.

I shall use options that trade for the last time 10 days hence, on Sept. 1.

Implied volatility stands at 31%, which is 2.6 times the VIX, a measure of the volatility of the S&P 500 index.

CRM’s IV stands in the 52nd percentile of its annual range and at the peak of its most recent broad movement.

The price used for analysis was $92.71.

Premium:	$4.09	Expire OTM
CRM-iron fly	Strike	Odds	Delta
Long	101.00	91.9%	9
Break-even	97.09	~76.5%	~25
Short	93.00	51.5%	51
Puts
Short	93.00	48.6%	49
Break-even	89.09	~72.8%	~25
Long	85.00	86.6%	12

The premium is 51.1% of the width of the position’s wings.

The risk/reward ratio is 1:1.

The expected move is $3.76, within the $4.00 break-even width.

Decision for My Account

I have entered an order on CRM as described above. The stock at the time of entry was priced at $92.84.

By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Aug. 22, 2017

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