Back on August 15th shares of The Home Depot (HD) had a negative reaction (closing down 2.65% on the day) following what was, for the most part, a very solid Q2 and guidance. Now with …
Continue readingOn Tuesday, September 12th Apple (AAPL) will introduce their 10th Anniversary iPhone, coupled with a refresh of their 7s/Plus lines plus the possibility of a new Watch that would work independently of an iPhone. For …
Continue readingYesterday (read here) we updated a bullish trade idea in the S&P Energy Select etf, the XLE as it approached the downtrend that has been in place from its post election 52-week highs: For those …
Continue readingIn July we wrote about the energy sector, focusing particularly on its relationship to the dollar. We also detailed a call calendar in the Energy etf XLE as it neared the upper band of its …
Continue readingTonight after the close, enterprise cloud software vendor for the insurance industry, Guidewire (GWRE) will report their fiscal Q4 results. The options market is implying about a 5% move in either direction, which is basically in …
Continue readingThe Semiconductor etf, the SMH is down 1.4% as I write, outperforming the Nasdaq’s 1%. There are two outliers worth noting in the space today, first the best-performing stock in the etf ytd, Nvidia (NVDA), up …
Continue readingEarlier in August, amidst an uptick in volatility we checked in on gold and the gold miners, with the thought that some renewed vol in other asset classes was likely to mean those caught a …
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