Big Printin’

Microsoft (MSFT) will report their fiscal Q3 results after the close Thursday, April 27th. The options market is currently implying about a 3.5% move in either direction, which is shy to the 4.7% average one-day post-earnings …

This weekend French citizens will cast the first of two votes that could likely determine the fate of the European Union. You know the drill by now, the election of right-wing nationalist Marine Le Pen …

Shares of Starbucks (SBUX) are trading today at a new 2017 high, very near a fresh 11 month high, having paused at its mid-December highs. I think it is safe to say that despite the …

On Thursday in this space, we highlighted some short dated put buying in the SMH, the etf that tracks the semiconductor sector (here) and what might be a fairly precarious technical set up for one its …

The etf that tracks the semiconductor space, SMH, is looking like it will make its second consecutive close below its 50 day moving average (short-term momentum indicator, the purple line below) for the first time …

Let me reiterate something you probably know… The surprise election result in the wee hours of November 9th, 2016 caused a tectonic shift in the way investors viewed stocks and sectors that have been heavily …

There is nothing like the most powerful man in the world stirring the pot on Twitter with our most unstable adversary, with a veiled threat to our most capable frenemy to send investors scurrying for safe …

On of the largest single stock options trades on the day was in The Home Depot (HD). Shortly after noon, a trader bought 25,000 of the May 155 calls for 61 cents and sold 450,000 …

There’s been no shortage of warnings this week from some stone cold Wall Street playas (Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan and Larry Fink of Blackrock) that the stock market may be overly enthusiastic since the election …

Taking a quick gander at the 3-year chart of IBM and once can see what appears to be a fairly textbook head and shoulders bottom formation, with $180 serving as the neckline (aka technical resistance): …