If you yourself are not a financial markets professional, your impression of Wall Streeters may come from Hollywood movies like Wall Street, Boiler Room, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Big Short. All of …
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At the end of November we detailed a trade idea in GE that looked to finance upside calls in February with the sale of Dec31st calls of the same strike. This is a strategy we …
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On the last day of 2014 (here) I took issue with a quote in the WSJ regarding the U.S. stock market, “probability of a solid 2015 is improving“. If I were a full time market …
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Heading into the Christmas Holiday week we detailed some portfolio hedge ideas we thought made sense given the uncertainty surrounding the start of 2016 and sell offs we have seen in each of the last …
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One of our favorite year end strategies is slightly upside call calendars in stocks we feel may drift higher into the final trading days of the year with chances for further upside once the calendar …
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Sorry to do it to you, but one last post on Twitter in 2015. A few days ago, early TWTR shareholder, and quasi-activist tweeted this: The problem. The opportunity. $TWTRhttps://t.co/odXJMVyJ9O — Chris Sacca (@sacca) December 24, 2015 …
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Shortly before Lennar (LEN) reported earnings we psoitioned for weakness in the stock with a defined risk put butterfly with good risk/reward (risking .70 with the chance for up to 3.30 in profits) if the …
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2015 started with the promise that lower oil might heal the ills in our low growth economic recovery. This has obviously not been the case in many sectors, and particularly in our consumer led economy with …
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If your Christmas clean up was like mine, it consisted of breaking down Amazon.com boxes. Ten years ago when I started as a Prime member, my wife and I didn’t say a word to anyone …
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A year ago, as the calendar was about to turn, few would have pegged Disney (DIS) to be a battle-ground stock 0f 2015. ESPN, their cash cow, was flying on all cylinders. And there were …
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