AT&T (T) reports their Q1 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying am 88 cent move between now and this Friday’s close or about 2.2% in either direction (most of that implied movement …
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The hope trade is fully intact. For those who thought last week’s mid-teens readings in the VIX was indicating a coming vol shock for stocks, or that oil breaking through the physiologically important $50 level …
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At the beginning of every earnings preview, we include something along the lines of this sentence (from the MSFT preview earlier): The options market is currently implying about a 3.5% move in either direction I …
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On Options Action April 21st, Carter Worth outlined a bullish technical thesis on McDonald’s, which is already up nearly 10% this year and trading at all-time highs despite revenue and earnings declines over the past …
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Microsoft (MSFT) will report their fiscal Q3 results after the close Thursday, April 27th. The options market is currently implying about a 3.5% move in either direction, which is shy to the 4.7% average one-day post-earnings …
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Yesterday, the New York Times ran a fairly controversial opinion piece from USC media professor and author Jonathan Taplin. In it he discussed the modern day tech monopolies of Alphabet (GOOGL) Amazon (AMZN) and Facebook (FB). …
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A couple of weeks ago we wrote about the bank stocks into their earnings season and offered a simple short-term protection strategy for those looking to protect gains into an uncertain potentially volatile period. The thought at …
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A few weeks ago on CNBC’s Fast Money, I was asked to offer up a hedging / protection strategy for holders of outperforming mega-cap tech stocks. The idea was simple, the QQQ, the etf that …
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Whirlpool (WHR) has been a gappy stock over the past year, with the stock dropping 8.5% and 10.8% following its last two earnings reports in (Jan and Oct respectively) with an early September gap on …
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A little over a month ago we previewed ADBE earnings and offered a defined risk stock alternative to play for a breakout. Here was the original trade idea, from March 16th: And what about those …
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