Last week I made a contrarian bullish bet that DDD was gearing up for a pop after a more than 40% decline from the January highs. The week started out with some fairly impressive relative …
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Ford and GM have had a disappointing start to 2014, after a strong run in 2013 that had attracted a good amount of attention. Well known investors like Warren Buffett, David Einhorn, and Kyle Bass …
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As has been the theme this week, very mixed priced action under the surface, as big moves for certain individual stocks in both directions, while the S&P 500 ended near unchanged. 1. C – More than …
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COST is nearing the $110 support level that we outlined in our trade idea from a couple weeks back. Our put purchase is up 70% here with only 1 week to expiry, so we’re going …
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The Nasdaq 100 index has been trading just above its 100 day moving average (now around 3549) for most of today’s session. The uptrend in the Nasdaq has been so steady over the past year …
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IBM has been making some seriously crazy moves lately and we seem to be getting a second chance to get out of our bearish fly. To recap, we placed a trade on IBM and were …
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Whirlpool’s corporate results over the past 5 years are a microcosm of corporate America for a modern industrial company. Whirlpool grew sales 10% from 2009 to 2013, but earnings have more than doubled in that …
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Back in Late February I dubbed WFM’s technical set up ” The Triangle of death”, from Feb 26th: With a month gone by, the chart looks a bit more precarious, now sitting just above that …
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The outperformance of the U.S. stock market vs. the rest of the world has been a well documented theme of the past 5 years. The S&P 500 index nearly tripled from the 2009 trough to …
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Macro ETFs dominated options volumes, as the CBOE composite put/call ratio closed above 1 for only the third time in the past 6 months. 1. SPY – Put/call ratio has averaged about 1.6 over the past …
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