Facebook will report their Q4 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about an $11 one day move tomorrow, or about 6% in either direction, which is fairly rich to the average …
Continue readingAdvanced Micro Devices (AMD) will report their Q4 results after the close. Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money I detailed how we arrive at the implied movement post results, click below to watch: So with …
Continue readingShares of Oracle got off to a bad start on the first trading day of the year as tech publication The Information reported (on Jan 2nd) In Major Shift, Amazon, Salesforce Move Away From Oracle: …
Continue readingOccasionally we like to go back to trades a play a bit of a “what if” game. One that caught my attention was a trade that was initially working in IBM that we updated with …
Continue readingYou know the ol’ Wall Street saying, that stocks usually take the escalator up, and the elevator down. The market’s been on a largely stress-free escalator for a long time. But as we get into …
Continue readingBiotech stocks have gotten off to a good start in 2018, with a couple of big m&a deals fueling the enthusiasm. The relatively equal-weighted S&P Biotech etf, the XBI is up nearly 11% ytd, just …
Continue readingBack in mid-December I took a look at Broadcom (AVGO), discussed their $100 billion bid for Qualcomm (QCOM) and detailed a bullish defined risk options strategy to play for new highs in Q1 2018 (read …
Continue readingFord Motor Company (F) started the week by guiding 2017 and 2018 earnings lower, per WSJ: said 2017 net income equaled $1.95 per share, and operating income equaled $1.78 per share, an improvement compared with …
Continue readingInto year end we featured a number of calendars on the site that looked to target mildly bullish moves into year end and further upside after the calendar change. Those typically took the form of …
Continue readingOn Friday’s Options Action, and in this space I laid out the near-term bull case for IBM into tonight’s Q4 print, and offered a defined risk way to play, click below to watch the clip: Here …
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