January 25, 2017 by riskreversal • Big Printin'

Investors are scrambling to expand the realm of the sorts of industries, companies, products and services that might fit the narrative of increased infrastructure spending. While tech stocks largely under-performed the initial post election gains …

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January 25, 2017 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Something fairly extraordinary happened yesterday. AppDynamics was on the eve of their hotly anticipated IPO that would value the company near $2 billion. Now there won’t be an IPO. Because AppDynamics  was bought by Cisco …

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January 24, 2017 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

After a fairly rocky 2016 for Tesla (TSLA), despite the unveiling the future of the company (the mass market model 3 to be delivered in 2018 in volume), shares have been on a tear since …

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January 24, 2017 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Event: Texas Instruments (TXN) reports Q4 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying a little less than a 3.5% one day post earnings move, which is a little rich of the 4 qtr average …

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January 23, 2017 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Shares of Qualcomm (QCOM) are down 12% today following Apple’s (AAPL) $1 billion lawsuit against the mobile chip make, alleging QCOM, per WSJ: leveraged its monopoly position as a manufacturer of baseband chips, a critical component …

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January 19, 2017 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

American Express (AXP) reports Q4 results tonight after the close.  The options market is implying about a 3.8% one day post earnings move, which is shy to its 4 qtr average one day move of …

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January 18, 2017 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Event: Wireless semiconductor company Skyworks Solutions (SWKS) is scheduled to report fQ1 results tomorrow after the close. The options market is implying about a 5% one day post earnings move which is a tad shy …

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January 18, 2017 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

On December 16th we previewed FedEx’s Q2 results and detailed a trade to play for a pullback in the stock, targeting the 185-180 area. Here was the trade and rationale at the time: *FDX ($196) …

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January 17, 2017 by riskreversal • Big Printin'

Citibank (C) reports Q4 earnings tomorrow morning before the open. The options market is implying about a 2.5% one day post earnings move tomorrow, which is above the 4 qtr average one day post earnings …

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