November 19, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Yesterday’s price action in U.S. stocks following the release of the October FOMC meeting minutes suggests, at least for now, that equity investors are comfortable with the notion of a rate increase at their Dec …

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November 18, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Event: NetApp Inc (NTAP) reports Q3 results after the close.  The options market is implying about a 8.5% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr avg one day move of about 6%, …

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November 17, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

2015 may be remembered as the year the U.S. consumer Netflix’d and Chilled.  In between episodes of House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, Americans bought their organic foods from their Instacart app, their …

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November 17, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Event: Target (TGT) reports Q3 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about a 5.5% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr avg of only 2.25% and the 10 …

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November 17, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

From yesterday’s open, the first since the tragic terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night, France’s stock market, the CAC 40 Index is up about 3.25% from its short lived lows, and global stocks have been …

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November 16, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Event: The Home Depot (HD) reports Q3 results tomorrow before the opening. The options market is implying about a 3.5% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr avg move of about 2.6%. …

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November 16, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Event: TJX Companies (TJX) reports Q3 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about 8.5% one day move, which is massively rich to its 4 qtr average one day move of 3.4%. …

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November 16, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Friday’s tragic events in Paris punctuated what has been a very bloody couple of weeks at the hands of ISIS. First on October 30th with the downing of a Russian commercial flight from Egypt, killing all 224 people …

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