Cisco (CSCO) is a stock that we haven’t traded a whole heck of a lot lately because it hasn’t done a whole heck of a lot for the last year, trading between $21 on the downside …
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BIDU is approaching its all-time high of $189.34 from March 7th (when many growth/momentum stocks topped). The stock’s impressive recovery from its early April low near $140 has been quite steady since mid-May: The stock …
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Schlumberger hit a new all-time high last week on massive volume after very bullish analyst meetings where the company laid out guidance all the way to 2017 (guiding $9-$10 per share) in a major show …
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Back in October 2006, when Myspace was the dominant online social network, Google made their largest acquisition to date, a $1.65 billion deal for YouTube. As with any new medium, some investors probably didn’t even know what …
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The economic calendar is jam-packed this week, even though Thursday’s session is a half day that ends at 1 pm EDT, and Friday the stock market is closed for the July 4th holiday. The big …
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Options volume was quite light ahead of the weekend, with most of the single stock options volume focused on Jan15 upside calls in various names. 1. YHOO – YHOO bounced above $34 for the first time …
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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 June 23rd – June 27th:
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Bank stocks have lagged the broad market in 2014 as money-center and investment banks fend off of a whole host of challenges from increased regulatory scrutiny that appears to be resulting in no shortage of multi-billion …
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Yesterday, there as an interesting ratio call spread that traded in AAPL that I highlighted in this morning’s TMO post: AAPL – While most of the volume was in weekly options as usual, there was a buyer of 14k …
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McDonald’s has essentially been flat over the past 2.5 years, badly lagging a huge bull market in stocks. The stock has been hindered by tepid annual earnings growth of only 2-4%, and sales growth of …
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