The percentage gain I am predicting here makes this look like a weak prediction, but in the options market you can still make decent money on this sort of thing.  I figured I'd be remiss if I didn't do at least some buying on a crap day like today.  Of course today could signal a new trend, but as an eternal (idiotic) optimist I'd rather believe it's just a hiccup precipitated by a slew of some negative data and a Fed decision that wasn't activist enough to please the market makers.  (Isn't it odd that financial people tend to be politically conservative and yet they all seem to be rooting for the government to keep using its strength - and money - to keep the economy artificially pumped up?)

Starbucks is a company which has been mostly above $25 for the last I don't know how long.  I did write about it at some very fortuitous times in the past.  It's hard not to love the place.  It brightens your day.

Target date coincides with September op-ex, I bought $24 calls.  Here's to early September including some brighter days...