Very light options volumes once again, even as stock volumes picked up in the afternoon after the Fed release. The CBOE composite put/call ratio closed just above 1 on the day. 1. BABA – Alibaba has …
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Event: SBUX reports their fiscal Q4 earnings tomorrow after the close. The options market is implying about a 3% one day move, which is above the 4 qtr avg of about 1.25%, but in line …
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EWZ has rallied back to where it closed on Friday ahead of the elections, suggesting that market participants were not that surprised by Rousseff’s election victory. That was our expectation when we initiated the Oct31st …
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Facebook’s shares are down 6% in the pre-market this morning (they were down as much as 10% last night) following Q3 results that were better than expected. The cause of the initial decline is the forward guidance …
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IWM had its largest one day percentage advance in the past year, and QQQ neared its high of the year on yesterday’s broad market rise. Utility stocks were unusually active yesterday as earnings reports for …
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We previewed the Facebook earnings earlier (copied below) and much like TWTR yesterday we want to follow up with some options structures we like depending on your current FB holding or directional bias: Stock replacement/alternative …
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EVENT: FB is scheduled to report their Q3 results after the close tonight. The options market is implying a one day move in either direction for Wednesday of almost 8%, which is rich to its …
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Event: GILD reports its Q3 results today after the market close. The options market is implying a one day move of about 4.75%, which is above both the 4 quarter average of 2.75% and the …
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Regular readers of RiskReversal know that we are NOT the “I told you so” guys, but… One of our trades earlier in the year was buying shares of Twitter (TWTR) prior to their Q2 results …
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The relative underperformance of the energy sector vs the rest of the market since July has been quite a sight. A simple chart of sector ETF performance in 2014 does the trick (XLE in white): …
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