Chart of the Day

Earlier today I wrote a post discussing the price action of recent tech IPO’s and the feedback on the next Mega-Unicorn hoping to reach the public markets (Tech Unicorns Born Into a Grave). My take-away …

Shares of Nvidia (NVDA) did something this morning that it has done on most trading days over the last month, made a new all time high. But this morning’s gap was the largest at about …

I don’t have much of anything intelligent to add to the Amazon (AMZN) story. The stock’s 32% year to date gains ($150 billion in market cap terms) and 45% gains from its post-Brexit 52-week lows are …

What a difference a day makes. As we discussed in the last Volatile Compounds (May 8th), we’d recently been seeing levels of volatility that we haven’t seen in decades. In early May the VIX danced …

There is not too much that can be learned charting a stock that has only been trading in the public markets for a little more than two months. That is the case with SNAP. The …

The big news in today’s options trading world is that the VIX has fallen below 10. That’s just the 20th time that’s happened since 1990 and it’s the lowest the index has been since February …

Shares of Hertz (HTZ) are making new 52 week lows today, with the stock down 33% on the year, and down a whopping 73% from its 52-week highs made last July. What’s amazing is that …

In the days immediately following the presidential election, shares of Altria (MO) declined nearly 8% before bottoming out and going on a fairly epic run to new all-time highs and then some in just a …

AT&T (T) reports their Q1 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying am 88 cent move between now and this Friday’s close or about 2.2% in either direction (most of that implied movement …

At the beginning of every earnings preview, we include something along the lines of this sentence (from the MSFT preview earlier): The options market is currently implying about a 3.5% move in either direction I …