Shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) are down 23% from their 52 week and all time highs made in late September, and down 16% on the year. After a nearly 7 month consolidation between the low $120s …
Continue readingWe spend a lot of time discussing corporate quarterly earnings as they represent the potential for unusual volatility around a known event. For a stock market that spends most of its time trading on general …
Continue readingEarlier this week we previewed Gamestop (GME) earnings and detailed a stock alternative. The idea for the stock alternative was that GME had already pre-announced, and shown that buyers lurked below, in large part because …
Continue readingIt’s been a newsy year for Facebook (FB). In the Spring, at the height of the presidential election primary period, a former employee made news by stating that curators routinely suppressed conservative news stories in their …
Continue readingHere are some apparently directional untied options trades that caught our attention in today’s trading:
Continue readingGameStop (GME) will report their Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 6.75% one day move tomorrow, which is above the 4 qtr one day average move of 4.8% …
Continue readingBiotech and Healthcare stocks are down a couple percent today after an epic bounce following the surprise outcome of the presidential election. A few weeks ago we detailed defined risk trade ideas in the S&P …
Continue readingI read this on the social media, so it has to be either true… or fake: The S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq Composite and Russell 2000 all closed at records today. Last time that happened was Dec. …
Continue readingPalo Alto Networks (PANW) reports their fiscal Q1 results after the close. The options market is implying about a 6.5% one day move in either direction tomorrow, which is shy of the 4 qtr average of …
Continue readingOn Friday we detailed a bearish near term set up in shares of Starbucks (SBUX – Bean Counting) for the following reasons: its year to date relative under-performance to broad market and peers. technical set …
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