Regulation Fair Disclosure, or "Reg FD" as it is more commonly referred to, has been blamed for the fact that during earnings season these days we tend to see a lot of stocks that either gap up or gap down following their quarterly earnings reports... This has had the effect of making holding the stock of any company into an earnings report something of a game of "earnings roulette."... But the fascinating truth is that it is often not necessary to try and bet on the outcome of a stock's earnings report, because if one utilizes the "buyable gap-up" technique, one can easily latch onto and ride some very nice upside price moves.
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