Would you want to bet on earnings direction without dealing with IV crush or time decay?
u/theculgal ·
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· April 12, 2026 at 01:05
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One thing that frustrates me about trading earnings is that you can be completely right on the direction and still lose money because of IV crush or theta eating your position.
Curious if anyone else feels like the options mechanics sometimes get in the way of just having a pure directional view on how a stock moves after earnings.
Would you want a way to just call UP, DOWN, or neutral on an earnings move and see how you stack up against other traders ,no greeks, no expiration, just the direction?
I know Polymarket does something similar but their earnings markets are usually framed around whether a stock beats earnings expectations and not the actual price movement after. Feels like a different question to me. Anyone know of something that focuses purely on the post earnings price direction?