Earlier in his MorningWord, Dan said that some of the best trades on the board after last week’s late week bounce in the fade the bounce of some of the market’s fallen angels, like Disney (DIS): …
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The ascent of the SPX over the last few years seemed so effortless that the 10% decline in the S&P 500 (SPX) from August 20th to August 25th may have been nothing more than complacent …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Aug 24h – Aug 28th:
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The turmoil in the U.S. stock the past week came from fears of slowing global growth and emerging market contagion. U.S. economic data has been generally strong in the past 3 months (particularly the employment …
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On July 2nd, when the S&P500 (SPX) was still comfortable in its then 5 month trading range between 2050 and 2130, I wrote a post titled Don’t forget what you are celebrating as the pre-market futures caught …
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XRT was a trade where we had the direction right but not the timing or trade structure. We initiated the trade when we felt the ETF showed signs of waning momentum targeting a pullback to …
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Of all the craziness of the last week the moves in the large cap Nasdaq stocks have been some of the most breathtaking considering the market cap changes involved. AAPL is currently around 113 after …
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We have a couple of in-the-money butterflies that moved out of their established range on this bout of selling. I wanted to go over them and see what the plan is for them now. The …
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Dan discussed Luxoft back in a MorningWord post in March: Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money we had the CEO, Dmitry Loschinin, of Swiss software company, Luxoft (LXFT) on the program. To be 100% honest …
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Back in November 2014, when crude oil was down about 50% from its prior 52 week high, the number two oilfield services company Halliburton (HAL) agreed to acquire number three in the space, Baker Hughes (BHI) …
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