{"id":225970,"date":"2025-06-18T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibkrcampus.com\/campus\/?p=225970"},"modified":"2025-07-09T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:01:10","slug":"mind-the-earnings-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.interactivebrokers.com\/campus\/podcasts\/ibkr-podcasts\/mind-the-earnings-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind the Earnings Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Earnings season can spark sharp moves\u2014but how much of it is predictable? Dmitry Pargamanik of Market Chameleon joins us to explore how traders can use historical options data to spot patterns, dodge outliers, and navigate the volatility around earnings announcements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe title=\"Mind the Earnings Gap\" allowtransparency=\"true\" height=\"150\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border: none; min-width: min(100%, 430px);height:150px;\" scrolling=\"no\" data-name=\"pb-iframe-player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/player-v2\/?i=5ygqr-18ff5cb-pb&#038;from=pb6admin&#038;share=1&#038;download=1&#038;rtl=0&#038;fonts=Arial&#038;skin=1b1b1b&#038;font-color=ffffff&#038;logo_link=episode_page&#038;btn-skin=c73a3a\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-summary-ibkr-podcasts-ep-268\">Summary \u2013 IBKR Podcasts Ep. 268<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The following is a summary of a live audio recording and may contain errors in spelling or grammar. Although IBKR has edited for clarity no material changes have been made<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi everyone, this is Jeff Praissman with IBKR Podcasts. It&#8217;s my pleasure to welcome back to our studio Dmitry Pargamanik from Market Chameleon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey Jeff. How are you doing?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We just got done a great webinar on earnings screenings through option activity, and we have the opportunity, as we do every month, to take a deeper dive into it\u2014having you in the podcast studio. So I&#8217;m excited. And, you know, we probably should just start with the obvious question, right? So why analyze historical option strategies around earnings? What is the benefit?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we look at earnings, options are a unique instrument that allows you to either hedge or make an outlook on a binary event. And earnings are binary events. They come once a quarter, so you got them usually four times a year. Around earnings, the stock and the options behave differently\u2014especially because you have this earnings announcement. After the earnings announcement, right before that, you have this high uncertainty. Then you get this news, and the stock can reprice very quickly and move to a new level. And that itself is different than how a stock would behave from day to day when you don&#8217;t have earnings announcements. So just isolating those specific earnings dates and earnings announcements and analyzing them on their own is important, and it gives you a different opportunity to use options around that binary event.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what key metrics should traders prioritize when they&#8217;re analyzing historical option strategy performance during earnings seasons? Also, why are they crucial for informed decision-making?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah. And there are different metrics available depending on what question you&#8217;re trying to answer. But typically around earnings, the most important\u2014or the most frequently looked-at\u2014metrics would be stock price movements, the volatility, or the gaps. How much volatility does this stock experience even heading into earnings? Is there an uptick in volatility maybe a day or two before the earnings? What type of volatility or gaps do we typically see? After the stock closes, usually the stock closes, you see an earnings announcement after that market closes or before the market opens, and then you get this gap move. And the volatility\u2014right after the market opens\u2014you\u2019re going to see some more volatility, more than usual, because you&#8217;ve got this repricing going on. And you also have repricing of options. And how long does it take to get to those normal levels? So these are metrics you look at in isolation, maybe depending on what question you want to answer. But you&#8217;ll typically see metrics on volatility, stock price movements, the magnitude of the moves, and the premiums in the options. 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And that&#8217;s important because even though you have this earnings event, you may want to take a look at how these strategies line up and what your potential risks and rewards are around those\u2014or anchored around that earnings. Is there a potential there, or an opportunity even heading into earnings? Because maybe there&#8217;s lower volatility in the options and the stock, and they&#8217;re lined up well. Or do you go and hold a strategy all the way through the event, or wait until the event is over? And maybe there&#8217;s a strategy there where the options take longer to trade back into their usual implied volatility\u2014or is it overdone? These are things that you could start looking at for different timeframes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And what indicators suggest the best timing for strategy implementation?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah. 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How does implied volatility typically behave in the weeks leading up to earnings announcements, and what sort of strategies can benefit from that pattern that you would see in a screening tool?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah. If we take the\u2014let&#8217;s say\u2014the option pricing model, the Black-Scholes, what you&#8217;ll see is when calculating the implied volatility, the implied volatility looks like it&#8217;s increasing heading into earnings. And then, after the earnings announcement, you&#8217;ll see a big drop because it&#8217;s heading right back to where it typically would be priced without an earnings event. So that&#8217;s something that you would observe. And the reason behind that is also that options have a component for this gap, right? Heading into earnings, what you&#8217;ll see is that there&#8217;s high uncertainty, so you&#8217;re going to have this component in there that is going to be priced in until the end of earnings. As you get closer, it looks like the implied volatility is moving higher. And it&#8217;s important then to look at the premium of the options compared to that expected move. From that perspective, when we look at implied volatility, traders have to keep in mind that the options themselves aren\u2019t just pricing in average daily volatility from now to expiration. They have this one component in there that is looking at a specific event that will get taken out after that event\u2014after the announcement of that event\u2014and the stock gets repriced.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Historical data&#8217;s never perfect, right? If it was, we&#8217;d all be super rich and not have to worry about anything. There are definitely outliers and other issues that pop into it. How can traders distinguish between the statistically significant patterns and these random one-off occurrences that, I think it&#8217;s safe to say, appear for many stocks\u2014if not all\u2014if you go back far enough?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, yeah. It&#8217;s a good question. How do we look for outliers or something that may skew the data, let&#8217;s say. And that&#8217;s very important too, because if you look at it\u2014let\u2019s just say, for example\u2014we&#8217;re looking at an average movement of a stock after it reports earnings, and we get this average movement of, say, 10% up or down. But if we look at that data and we have this really big move\u2014one of those earnings moved up 25%\u2014that will obviously skew our averages higher.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if we look at that data point, it could be an outlier. It could be something where something special happened in that earnings. Let\u2019s just say we go back and we find out that in that particular earnings event, they announced the results of a lawsuit that was going on for two years. That\u2019s an outlier. We could say that doesn\u2019t happen every quarter, right? We can&#8217;t expect a movement like that, and you might want to remove that from your data set. You might get a much different metric\u2014maybe not a 10% average, but a 5%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it&#8217;s something to really keep in mind, yes, when you&#8217;re looking at the data sets and you&#8217;re running your analytics, and you&#8217;re trying to establish some kind of a modeling around your potential opportunities, potential returns, or certain potential risk. Looking for those outliers becomes important, and you definitely want to take those into account\u2014if there&#8217;s an outlier and you can explain it away based on something like we just discussed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And how can traders balance win frequency versus the average return versus best-case\/worst-case scenarios in evaluating these historical options strategies when they&#8217;re taking a look at it?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, and when we run these statistics and metrics, they work together in some sense, and they answer different questions. Like, when we mention win rate, we want to see how often something happens, right? The frequency of something happening. How often does the stock move beyond 10%? How often does the stock gap up or gap down historically?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that\u2019s just looking at the historical frequency of something happening. And then we could look at the average returns, best-case\/worst-case scenario\u2014that\u2019s looking at the magnitude of the moves. That&#8217;s looking at what kind of potential movements we can get\u2014ranges\u2014from a historical perspective. Because we don\u2019t know the future, of course, but using a model, we plug in the data that&#8217;s available so we can model out the potential movements from zero to wherever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So these are things that are important\u2014they answer different questions and work together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And time premium is such an important part of option pricing. What role does time decay play in the profitability of options strategies during earnings\u2014particularly when you&#8217;re looking at implementing different positions at different distances from the announcement date?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, and that\u2019s a good question because when you have an option that, let\u2019s say, covers earnings, you&#8217;re going to have that component for the gap that\u2019s not going to decay until that announcement. So you&#8217;re not going to see a typical decay in that option. If we plug it into the option pricing model, we&#8217;re going to get this theta number. And the theta number doesn\u2019t really reflect a component for a binary event\u2014it just says that this is going to decay X amount every day, or whatever, on the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when we look at time decay that involves an option with a binary event like earnings, it\u2019s not going to decay the same way as an option that doesn\u2019t have that component. And so when we look at that theta number, it\u2019s not the same until you take that component out. So if you&#8217;re looking at strategies, having that in mind\u2014you have to take that into account.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeff Praissman<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Dmitry, could you discuss the process of validating a strategy\u2019s effectiveness across multiple earnings cycles? What statistical measures should traders use to confirm whether these observed patterns are meaningful\u2014or if it\u2019s just a big coincidence, like you\u2019re just looking at the last couple earnings and it just happened to go this way?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dmitry Pargamanik<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah. So when we look at a strategy\u2014for example, an option strategy\u2014what we try to do is look at the market price of the strategy, right? Because the market price of the strategy reveals something. It reveals to us what the market thinks: the likelihood of something happening and what the payoff potential could be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we look at that from that perspective, and then we try to analyze it and compare it to what we believe it could be. And when we look at it, it\u2019s not really about the effectiveness of it, but what we believe the pricing of the strategy is at this point\u2014does it offer some type of opportunity relative to what we believe?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I\u2019ll give you an analogy. If I\u2019m looking at the outcome of a football game, and I have no idea if Team A or Team B will win, and I\u2019m assuming there\u2019s an equal chance of either team becoming the winner of this football game\u2014or soccer game, whatever\u2014and what I observe is that somebody is handicapping one of them. They&#8217;re giving you five points, or ten points, or something. Then that could be an opportunity, because that would indicate there\u2019s a good risk-reward in the market at this point.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the markets are always pricing and repricing. 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