Yesterday and today, two reports, one from the U.S. and one from China have raised the potential for a near term deal on trade, from yesterday’s WSJ: U.S. Debates Lifting China Tariffs to Hasten Trade …

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) will report their Q4 results Tuesday before the open. The options market is implying about a $4, or about a 3% move in either direction between now and next Friday’s close. …

CSX Corp (CSX) will report after the close tonight. The options market is implying about a $3.30 move in either direction or about 5%, which is slightly rich to the 4.5% average one day move …

A couple times a week on CNBC’s Fast Money one of the traders do what we call a Fast Pitch, where we detail a long idea. Most of the time the ideas are in mega-cap stocks …

Tomorrow before the open 18.5% of the XLF, the etf that tracks bank stocks will report earnings, JP Morgan (JPM) its second largest holding at 11.5% and Wells Fargo (WFC) at 7%. The options market …

Last night on the Options Action segment on CNBC’s Fast Money I highlighted what appeared to be some bearish activity in the etf that tracks the Russell 2000 small-cap index, the IWM (watch below). Regular …

Last week on CNBC’s Fast Money, a frequent guest, and all around good guy Tony Dwyer showed some pretty interesting data regarding the last three times (in 1987, 1998, 2011) that the S&P 500 (SPX) …

Barring any further unexpected pre-announcements, as we saw from Apple (AAPL) last week, Netflix (NFLX) will be the first mega-cap tech company to report Q4 earnings next week, Jan 17th after the close. The options …