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Reporting season is in full swing right now. We have seen some massive movements already on or around reporting day.
Let’s look at this week alone. ITV jumped over 7% on the back of results. Astrazeneca moved up 7.7% (A massive move for a traditionally defensive stock). Today alone Vodafone are up 7.5% on the back of their results (Percentage accurate at time of writing).
Now this is not to say that all companies that report results will be positive.
Some examples of companies dropping on the back of results this week. 
following disappointing production numbers. Metrobank fell 15% following a slide in profits.
How should you trade results?
There are options. Some clients choose to get in ahead of results. They may think the results will be good and beat expectations and pick up a long position and try grab a big move up.
What if you think results may be poor? You do have the flexibility with us to short a position, to profit from a falling stock price.
Others wait to see what the company’s results look like. This does mean you might to miss out on an initial spike in the price.
Remember spikes can go down as well as up.
If you were to see a 10/15/20%+ drop, some clients would look at this as an opportunity for a bounce in the share price, they may believe the drop has been overdone and see this as an opportunity!
That brings us to this week. We have a host of companies reporting including (for a full list of companies reporting next week, see the week in advance) BP, Taylor Wimpey, Lloyds, BAE, British American Tobacco, Barclays. Shell, Rio Tinto, IAG & RBS could we see similar movements this week? which of these are opportunity for you?
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Enjoy your weekend.
Chris Peters, Senior Trader, 19 July 2019
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