Chart of the Day

Whirlpool (WHR) has been a gappy stock over the past year, with the stock dropping 8.5% and 10.8% following its last two earnings reports in (Jan and Oct respectively) with an early September gap on …

We talk a lot about intrinsic and extrinsic value here on the site, especially when it comes to event risk and trade management after the fact. I wanted to go a little more in depth …

Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money I took a quick look at the implied movement in the options market for Bank Of America (BAC) and Goldman Sachs (GS) following their Q1 earnings reports this morning, …

Wells Fargo’s (WFC) gapped lower today following Q1 earnings results that fell short of expectations and saw (per Bloomberg) “a slowdown in its mortgage-banking business as rising interest rates crimp customer demand for refinancing” The …

OK, it’s time to discuss the pop in implied volatility. I last discussed the VIX on March 30th (Volatile Compounds 3/30 – VIX, XIV, VXX VIX Futures). At the time the spot VIX was just …

Last week in this space we discussed broader volatility measures like the spot VIX, VIX futures and vol ETNs like VIX and VXX as a broader conversation on volatility as an asset class. In case …

Following up on Dan’s post this morning on ETFs and Cramer’s “best of breed” thesis, there’s no better ETF to revisit than the relationship between Amazon (AMZN) and the retail etf XRT. 10 days ago …

We talk about implied volatility in each individual stock post and try to relay whether options are cheap or expensive historically and versus the realized vol of the stock itself. As far as broad measures …

Tonight after the close Oracle (ORCL) will report their fiscal Q3 results. The options market is implying about a 3.5% one day move tomorrow. With the stock just below $43, the March 17th 43 straddle …

After a dismal year in 2016, closing down about 13%, shares of Salesforce.com (CRM) are up a whopping 22% so far in 2017, and now less than 2% away from its 52 week and all time …