Apple’s (AAPL) muted reaction in the pre-market (so far) to its fiscal Q4 report / Q1 guidance means the stock is in a very different category than that of some of its mega-cap tech peers like Amazon (AMZN) …
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Event: Twitter (TWTR) reports Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 12% one day move tomorrow. The Oct 30th weekly 31 straddle (the call premium + the put premium) …
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Earlier I previewed Apple’s (AAPL) fiscal Q4 results due out after the close (read below). We now want to offer a few trade ideas using options as overlays to an existing position, or to express a …
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Event: Apple (AAPL) reports fiscal Q4 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about about a 6.5% one day move, which is greater than the implied move prior to their Q3 report of 5%, that subsequently …
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This Valeant (VRX) story is far from done. For those that thought the volatility in the stock was brought on solely by some shadowy short biased research house, think again. The WSJ set its sites on …
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A couple weeks ago we traded Ford with the idea of fading the 15% bounce in the shares from $13 to $15 that occurred in a little less than two weeks. The stock has since …
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September quarter results reported by Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) on Thursday saw the first two stocks gap to new all time highs, and the latter to a 15 year (!) high on …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Oct 19th to Oct 23rd:
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Shares of MSFT are up an astounding 11% today, breaking out to new 15 year highs. The chart now shows little overhead resistance until its prior all time high just below $60 back in 1999: …
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U.S. retail stocks are noticeably weak today, with the XRT, the S&P retail etf down 1.5% vs the S&P 500 (SPX) up 1.25%, and the Nasdaq Composite up 2.5%. There are a couple ways to think …
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