FDX reported earnings this morning and the stock is down more than 5%. Our structure from yesterday is a slight winner here with risk to the downside and incremental profits higher and a max gain …
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Last week we received a great response to our friend Ken Grant’s guest post “The 10 Commandments of Risk Management“. This week Ken builds on last week’s themes and introduces the concept of “Alpha” generation in …
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Given the quiet market backdrop to start 2013, we have been laser focused on appropriate trade structures that prevent us from losing on time decay. CC’s post on Friday was a detailed summary of our …
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With the markets seemingly drifting higher every day it’s a good time to reflect on some of our recent trades to determine what’s working in the market and what isn’t. A great way to do …
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Call it nostalgia, but BRCM is a stock I continue to follow all these years after I was a market maker in the name on the floor of the Amex, when the semi stocks were …
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With the VIX getting absolutely destroyed following the successful Fiscal Cliff deal in The Swamp, Dan and I started looking at ways to take advantage of a spot VIX in the mid 14s. The VIX …
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Dividends are cash payments made by corporations to their shareholders. A regular dividend can be quarterly, or biannual or annual or perhaps even less frequent. Often the amount and date is announced along with quarterly …
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Bear call spreads and bull put spreads are a nice short premium way to play a directional bias. If a trader thinks that stock is going down, but doesn’t have an strong opinion on where …
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This is the third part of an occasional series where we discuss specifics with other experts in the industry. My former colleague Dominic Salvino from Group One Trading is not only the VIX options specialist …
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This is the second part of an occasional series where we discuss specifics with other experts in the industry. My former colleague Dominic Salvino from Group One Trading is not only the VIX options specialist …
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