Almost two months ago I attempted to catch a falling knife by buying small cap nat gas play (below) that was making fresh multi year lows. At the time I was very clear about it …
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For those of you M&A watchers, telecom ruled in 2013, in large part to VZ’s purchase of Vodafone’s 45% stake in VZ wireless for $130 billion, but let’s not forget all of the horse trading …
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Full holiday excitement was on exhibit yesterday, with the CBOE composite put/call ratio hitting 0.61, its lowest level since January 2011. 1. FB – Options were actually quite active yesterday, with more than 400k calls trading …
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Target has been a very weak stock ever since its earnings report. We initiated a slightly bullish position after the stock’s decline on that report, in anticipation of some stabilization in the stock on both …
Continue readingAmgen was one of my favorite large cap stocks early in 2013. For a brief recap of the fundamentals, here is what I wrote about the company in an early March Name That Trade post: …
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On what was likely to be a slow news night in what was likely to be a quiet week of trading, the Twittersphere (and I suppose other ‘spheres) lit up like a Christmas tree with …
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Calls in Jan14 expiry dominated flows as the S&P 500 index closed at another record. 1. XLF – Seller of more than 150k of the Feb 19 puts at 0.06 in the afternoon. A buyer of …
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Here is a quick recap of all of the trades that we initiated, closed, managed or expired in the week that was Dec 16th – Dec 20th:
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Some traders I know look at the 1 year AAPL chart and they see nothing other than a long term bottom forming with the price action this past spring and summer amounting to a double …
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As we discussed earlier today, HPQ had a high risk of pinning the $28 strike. It looks likely to do so as the day has progressed, so we are going to take the trade off …
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