Walmart has been a massive out-performer in 2016, up 18% ytd vs the S&P 500 (SPX) up a tad less than 7%, and the S&P Retail etf up 7.5%. Call volume is running hot today …
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The largest single stock options trade today appears to be a bullish roll in Symantec (SYMC). Shortly after noon, when the stock was trading $23.70, a trader sold to close 30,000 Jan17 24 calls at $1.30 …
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Twitter (TWTR), you know the drill by now. The company is not growing users, revenue growth has decelerated massively (expected to be 16% this year and 13% next), profitability on a GAAP basis remains elusive, and …
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In case you missed, the 24% decline in crude oil from its 2016 highs in early June above $50, to this morning’s low at $39.19 came to a screeching halt following today’s supply data: With …
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U.S. stocks large cap stocks are the best performing in the developed world, with the S&P 500 (SPX) up nearly 1.5% in 2016, and down about 2% from its year ago all time highs, vs …
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In case you missed it, Chinese stocks had a day yesterday with the CSI 300 Index & the Shanghai Composite closing up 3.3% overnight, while the Shenzen was up 4% on rumors that the MSCI might start to …
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After a fairly sharp decline in the last month, highly correlated to the bounce in the U.S. Dollar, Gold finally bounced Friday off of an important technical level of 1200. It has followed through with …
Continue readingHere is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Thursday’s trading: 1. MU – in front of today’s fiscal Q3 earnings options volume was more than 2x average daily volume with …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Monday’s trading: 1. AMAT – the stock had its largest volume day in more than ten years as the stock declined 8.5% …
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