LED – Light Emitting Diodes, thats what CREE makes… right you have no idea what they are either. Well, the first time I heard of this company was back in the day of candy bar …
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Back on November 4th when the stock was around $560, we highlighted the waning momentum in Google (GOOGL) despite the market making new all time highs: But it’s not the estimates that have caught my eye, …
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We’re not doing a ton of trading in this Holiday shortened week as we expect some slow drifts sideways or higher over the next 2 weeks and our preferred structure has been some put calendars. …
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With the Fed’s continued dovishness last week, and this morning’s Q3 GDP revised higher its hard to see what will derail U.S. stocks between now and year end. Holiday trading periods like the one we …
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Here is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Monday’s trading: 1. RSX – when the Russia Vectors Equity etf was 15.94, five minutes prior to the close there was a …
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10 days ago we initiated a short trade in the banking etf XLF (below). Since then the etf is up about 40c as the market has continued its post Fed meeting rebound. Here was the …
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Adam Feuerstein of TheStreet.com had a good post this morning on the potential for a re-rating in Biotechs as they are one of the cheapest sectors in the market relative to expected growth. (Read here …
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Here is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Friday’s trading: 1. MS – Continues to see out of the money put buyers, short dated for generally low premium. Last week …
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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 Dec 15th – Dec 19th:
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On Friday’s Options Action on CNBC I detailed a new trade idea in the QQQ, a put calendar. The goal is financing longer dated out of the money puts by selling the Dec 31st puts of the same strike …
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