This morning a small oil and gas company named Exco Resources (XCO) reported disappointing Q3 earnings and sales causing the stock to make new 52 week lows with the stock down 10% (was down 14% …
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MorningWord 10/30/13: On CNBC’s Fast Money last night we had an analyst on who had downgraded TSLA near the stock’s recent highsbased on valuation. Most investors who wants to dig in on the Bear Case …
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Perhaps most interesting to me has been the reactions of the social media stocks to earnings so far this quarter. While the largest internet companies (GOOG and AMZN) soared after decent numbers, the momentum leaders …
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Market melt up continues, with the CBOE composite put/call ratio back near the lows of the year. Tech stocks dominated options volumes. FB – Customer bought Jan15 47 puts and sold Jan15 55 calls,for a net …
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We posted our detailed thoughts on LNKD in our earnings preview yesterday. LNKD stock is up more than 100% in 2013, one of the momentum leaders of the past year. The implied move is around 10%, …
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Event: FB reports its Q3 earnings tomorrow after the close. The options market is implying about a 12.5% one day move, which is below the 5 qtr avg (FB has reported 5 times in its …
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Over the last couple months we have detailed a handful of different AAPL trades all with any eye towards last night’s fiscal Q4 results serving as a catalyst. We have traded some of them, …
Continue readingI was just listening to some of my CNBC friends on the Halftime program debate whether or not you buy the dip in CMI, a stock that is down almost 9% after the company missed …
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As part of some new offerings we’ll be concentrating on potential portfolio hedges when we feel the market could be at inflection points. In August we showed a couple potential hedges using SPY options before …
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MorningWord 10/29/13: AAPL’s highly anticipated Q4 results and guidance for Q1 were received last night after the close with a massive MEH. Throughout our writing leading up the event (preview here, trades below), we repeatedly …
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