You know the drill, in 2016 and much of 2017, a popular investment theme in retail was that Amazon.com was killing bricks and mortar retailers with their ability to compete on price and convenience as …
Continue readingShares of Square (SQ) are up a whopping 175% this year, making a new all-time high, up about 1000% from its late 2015 IPO, and nearly sporting a $40 billion market cap. This is truly …
Continue readingAs regular readers know I spend a few hours a week, aside from Risk Reversal publicly commenting on the stock market on CNBC. As many of you do, I have the network on throughout the day …
Continue readingNike (NKE) will report their fiscal Q1 results tomorrow after the close. The options market is implying about a 5% move in either direction which is in line with its 10-year average one-day post-earnings move, …
Continue readingNext week the Federal Reserve will meet on September 26th where they are widely expected to raise Fed Funds to a range of 2 – 2.25%, followed by a decent likelihood of one more rate increase …
Continue readingRed Hat Inc (RHT) will report their fiscal Q2 results today after the close. The options market is implying about a 8.3% move between now and Friday’s close, which is rich to the stock’s ~6% …
Continue readingOn Monday prior to FedEx’s (FDX) fiscal Q1 results that evening I detailed a defined risk bearish trade idea (or protection for longs) citing: you might’ve been able to tell from the clip that I wonder …
Continue readingSince the spring I have taken a few cracks at Facebook (FB) playing for a reset of what I felt was exuberant investor sentiment (here, here, here & here). WIth the stock down a whopping 26% from …
Continue readingFedEx Corp (FDX) will report their fiscal Q1 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 3% move in either direction this week, or about $8, which is rich to the four …
Continue readingOn Wednesday I detailed a bearish trade idea in the XLF, the etf that tracks the bank stocks, targeting the bulk of the largest components Q3 earnings that fall in the second and third week …
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