How to find a reasonably-priced and resilient stock amid the rush of earnings…

Ahead of a shortened trading week, we will review how to find a new core holding for 2024 as updated earnings results hit Wall Street in the weeks ahead. And we'll look at an alternative way to go long the stock we identify using options. Although the earnings season has kicked off in earnest with the earnings report of major financials on Friday such as JPMorgan, the upcoming trading week, shortened by the Martin Luther King holiday, has relatively few names reporting where the options markets are indicating big moves, which I've somewhat arbitrarily defined as greater than 5% higher or lower. For your consideration, among…