Here is a quick recap of all of the trades that we initiated, closed, managed, expired and considered (Name That Trades) in the week that was May 19th – May 23rd:
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On Wednesday, we laid out a contrarian way to play for a bounce in the next couple months to the mid point of the last month’s range in Twitter (below), with one large caveat: We …
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SBUX has successfully held its recent lows and is now back above its 50 day moving average. This means the out-of-the-money bearish structure is at serious risk of becoming a total loss, especially with the …
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Hewlett-Packard is an impressive success story or a miserable failure. It’s all about perspective. Over the past 15 years, HPQ stock is flat, despite riding the global computing wave and more than doubling sales in …
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ETFs more active than single stock options, a theme that has persisted for much of the past 2 weeks. With the VIX hitting a new 1 year intraday low, implied volatility in many options contracts …
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Target has had a tough year, with the fall out from their cyber troubles in Q4 reverberating through the C-Level suite with the company’s President and CEO resigning earlier in the month, and just this …
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We have tried to be patient with the EBAY call butterfly because the position does not expire until June 21st expiration. However, the company’s recent announcement that customer account information has been hacked has put …
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MON is breaking out to a new 5 year high on strong volume today: The stock has been particularly strong since May 5th, when Larry Robbins of Glenview Capital announced MON as his top long …
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Our prior thesis that the weakness in many high valuation tech stocks will ultimately find its way into larger cap issues that have benefited from a rotation, has been severely challenged by the continued relative …
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In early May we initiated a defined risk near term bearish trade on CRM (here) with the idea that it would take a monster beat and raise for the stock to rise on Q1 results, despite …
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