December 13, 2018 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Costco (COST), the big box retailer will report fiscal Q1 earnings tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 4% move in either direction by tomorrow’s close, which is above its ten-year …

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December 12, 2018 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Earlier today UPS’s CEO David Abney was on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street with a cautiously optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy, a calming of the trade dispute with China and his own business in the …

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December 11, 2018 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Shares of Coca-Cola (KO) are outperforming the S&P 500 (SPX) fairly aggressively in 2018, up nearly 8% vs the SPX which is down about 1%. You know the drill on consumer staple stocks in turbulent equity …

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December 10, 2018 by Dan • Trade Ideas

On a couple of occasions in the last two years, I have laid out a bullish view on Electronic Arts (EA), both on its way up in November 2017 (It’s In the M&A Game?), suggesting: …

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December 10, 2018 by CC • Trade Updates

In November Dan checked in on 3M (MMM) after it had rallied 13% from post earnings lows in late October. Dan’s view was that the rally likely had to do with the collapse in oil …

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December 6, 2018 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Lululemon (LULU) reports their fiscal Q2 results tonight after the close, the options market is implying about an 11% one day move tomorrow that is basically in line with its average one-day post-earnings move over …

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December 4, 2018 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Utilities stocks, as measured by the XLU etf are one of the few bright spots today, trading up 1/2 a percent on a day U.S. stock markets are down about 2.5%. The XLU is up 9% on …

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December 4, 2018 by CC • Trade Updates

In October, when XOP (S&P Oil and Gas ETF) was 39.20 Dan looked at the technical setup, having just broken support at 40 as well as fundamental issues like rates, oil prices and dollar and …

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