Good morning, friends…

One of the best traders I know didn’t get to where he is through business school, Wall Street, or any traditional route…

He carved his “Edge” out one line of code at a time.

Six years ago, on a normal trading day, my colleague Mr. Anderson was watching some 5-minute charts when a simple question popped into his head… 

Could he use math to anticipate repeatable price behavior in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSEARCA: SPY)? 

He didn’t have a team, a supercomputer, or millions of dollars. He was by himself in his house. But he had the right question, and that’s what mattered. 

He began placing basic options trades on SPY before slowly expanding into historical trend analysis and probability modeling. 

He backtested over 2,500 days per ticker, built regression models, added sentiment scoring based on corporate and analyst chatter, and fed that data through custom scripts to scan more than 850 stocks.

He called the system Earnings Edge, which is now one of the most remarkable tools available in our Smart Data Trading community. 

Side Note: Mr. Anderson is smart. Like, really smart. He was an aerospace engineer before trading the options market. 

But even though Earnings Edge was developed by a rocket scientist, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist to use it. 

It’s just simple put and call-buying, but there’s nothing “simple” about the returns…

Last earnings season, this system alerted 100 winning trades in a row.*

Yesterday, it called out an option at $0.25 that went as high as $1.50 — a potential 500% gain in just a few hours.*

Let’s Go Over Why Earnings Edge Works, What Went Into Those Alerts, And How This System Gives You A Huge Advantage

How Earnings Edge Was Born

The market usually doesn’t give you obvious warning signs. But the last two days have been full of red flags.

SPY has been in a bearish downtrend since Monday:

While the VIX is building a concerning uptrend:

Volatility is simmering as the Iran-Israel conflict hangs in the balance. 

Internals are telling the same story. All major indices (IWM, QQQ, Dow Jones) are below key thresholds. The put/call ratio is climbing. Out-of-the-money SPY puts are flying off the shelves. 

Zoomed out, the SPY daily chart might look pretty good. But underneath the hood, sentiment is looking more and more bearish by the day. 

That’s why we have multiple trading tools for different environments. When the broader market is uncertain, the mathematical advantages of Earnings Edge can give you an edge.

That’s exactly what happened yesterday…

Yesterday’s 500% Win on MU

The Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) trade yesterday was a textbook example of what the Earnings Edge system is designed to do…

Identifying high-probability setups before they become obvious to the broader market.

Mr. Anderson’s algorithm picked up a favorable shift in MU’s expected move based on historical behavior, sentiment scoring, and option flow. 

While the broader market was flashing risk-off signals (SPY selling off, VIX climbing) MU was holding relative strength and showing signs of institutional call interest. 

The system triggered an alert when the 7/18 $130 calls were priced near $0.25, with a projected move strong enough to justify the risk.

If you had acted on that alert, you could’ve caught fills at $0.25–$0.30. Within hours, MU exploded higher:

Meanwhile, those same contracts pushed well past $1.50.* 

That’s a potential 500%+ return for those who held the full move, and 200–300% for just catching the meat of the trade.*

All in a single morning.

It’s the alignment of sentiment, historical data, and early confirmation from price behavior working together to form a fantastic setup. 

That’s the kind of trade that validates the work behind Earnings Edge. High reward, defined risk,  — driven by cold, hard math. 

If you’ve been with us trading Earnings Edge setups regularly, you’re already seeing how well the probabilities play out over time…

But if you’re still sleeping on this invaluable tool, what are you waiting for?!

Get started with Earnings Edge by clicking right here.

Happy trading,

Ben Sturgill

*Past performance does not indicate future results