By Todd Gordon
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 19:53:00
I’m going to present a ‘disaster’ insurance options strategy I’ll be using in our Active Opps managed accounts for clients of Inside Edge Capital, but first some context. Last Thursday I visited the New York Stock Exchange floor to do an interview on Power Lunch with my friend Brian Sullivan. The interview hit on several aspects of this confusing market including the government shutdown, market volatility, technicals of the indexes, the Michael Burry Palantir -Nvidia debacle that partially set this sell-off into motion (I wrote about last week), as well as Q3 earnings. Brian joked that we should appoint Nvidia’s earnings release as a national holiday. Well this is Brian’s NVDA’s day eve, markets are in sell-off mode ahead of the ‘celebration’, and investors are wondering how to dress for the party? To put a cherry on top, as I sat down this morning to prepare for the trading day many research websites I use were showing the Cloudflare green splash screen due to the latest internet outage. Sure, why not. What else could you throw at this market!? Nvidia’s Q3 earnings are tomorrow and the expectations are sky-high with GAAP quarterly earnings of $1.20 (53.85% growth vs Q2 of $1.08 and 15.23% above consensus) and revenues of $59.98B (56.73% growth vs Q2 of $46.74B and 2.63% above consensus). Note if you’re following along on NVDA daily chart’s sales and earnings data the quarters are off my 1 (showing Q4 instead of Q3). Looking at the chart, Q2 earnings were in August and…
