The largest trade on the day across single stock, etf and index options was a long dated bullish trade in GE. When the stock was $25.93 a trader paid .52 for 125,000 of the Jan2017 …
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On this Monday’s Fast Money on CNBC we started off the conversation talking about Apple (AAPL) nearing the $800 billion market cap mark, and what I believe is sentiment towards the shares that is quickly approaching …
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Gap stores reported Q4 results last night that beat on earnings but dissapointed on guidance: Gap Inc.’s fourth-quarter profits barely topped analyst expectations after getting a big lift from its discount Old Navy Brand. The …
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On Wednesday I took a look at Fedex (FDX) and had the following observation on its recent price action and technical set up (read here): Shares of Fedex (FDX) have nearly doubled-up the performance of the …
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A couple weeks ago we made a defined risk trade that MSFT would follow a few other large cap tech stocks in an effort to fill in their lower earnings gaps as broad market sentiment improved. …
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One of the more interesting stories of the week came from the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday – YouTube: 1 Billion Viewers, No Profit, suggesting that despite YouTube’s massive cultural significance the video site owned by …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Thursday’s trading: 1. JPM – total options volume ran 1.5x avg daily volume with calls dominating, making up 85% of the days volume. …
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Gap Stores (GPS) reports their Q4 results tonight after the close, the options market is implying a one day move* of about 4.3% which is rich to the 4 qtr avg move of 2.5% and …
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In the last few months we have placed two bearish trades in YUM, one for a gain back in December in front of what I expected to be lowered Q4 guidance (here) and one for …
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If you are reading this post then it is a safe assumption that you consider yourself a sort of DIYer market participant. You probably direct a bit of your free time on a segregated part of …
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