On January 23rd UPS pre-announced weak Q4 results (read 8K here): “primarily due to the underperformance of the U.S. Domestic segment” and suggested that 2015 results would be slight below prior guidance as “increased pension …
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Cliff Natural Resources (CLF), the beleaguered mining company, reports Q4 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 9% one day move which is basically inline with the 4 qtr average …
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Last week I bought Feb at the money puts in front of YUM’s Q4 results (due after the close on Wednesday) (read below). With the stock down 2.5% in the last couple trading days, I …
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A couple of weeks ago we wanted to make a near term defined risk play that the slightest bit of stabilization in the price of crude oil would cause a sharp reversal in airline stocks. …
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Microsoft was down nearly 15% last week after giving disappointing forward guidance. Their core Office and Windows businesses had been benefiting from the company’s move a year ago to stop supporting Windows XP which caused …
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Here is some untied, generally directional options activity that caught my eye during Friday’s trading: 1. AAPL – Total options volume on a day that saw the stock make a new all time intra-day high was 1.3x …
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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 Jan 26th to Jan 30th:
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