Heading into the $AAPL earnings we detailed two trades ideas to define risk and one to play for a move lower. I wanted to look at how those trades stand with the stock lower and …
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In mid December we made a bullish case for shares of Qualcomm (QCOM), legging into a long February Call position through a calendar structure (read here from December 14). With out short strike in the money …
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Event: Alibaba (BABA) reports Q4 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about a 7% one day move, which is rich to the stock’s 5.75% average one day move over its 6 …
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In case you missed it, the bullish fever for Apple (AAPL) shares have broken, at least among investors. This is not a bad thing for long term investors, as one more disappointing quarter and the …
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What’s likely to be the largest trade in the options pits today was a bullish roll in the SPDR Gold etf (GLD). When the etf was $107, a trader sold to close 27,000 of the …
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This morning we previewed Apple’s (AAPL) earnings due after the bell today. Do read the whole thing, but for now, here were some closing thoughts: So for now, I suspect that at current levels a Q1 …
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Event: Boeing (BA) reports Q4 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about a 4% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr average one day move of 2.5%, and …
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Capital One Financial (COF) was to the financial crisis in 2008/09 in the U.S. as Yahoo! (YHOO) was to the dotcom collapse in 2000/02, both sort of a poster-child for the ills of the prior …
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In late November, heading into what was a near certainty that the U.S. Fed would put an end to their zero interest rate policy in their December FOMC meeting, we decided to put on a trade that …
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No He didn’t. My buddy Brian Kelly put it out there for you this morning on The Ticker District: Introducing the D.U.N.G. Stocks Deutsche Bank, Union Pacific, Nabors, and General Motors. Street Cred: Represent an …
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