Last Friday we detailed a couple set ups in two mega-cap down stocks that report tomorrow before the open, General Electric (GE – Choose Your Own Adventure) and McDonalds (MCD – Making A Meal Out Of It), …
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On October 6th we to a look at the technical set up for the semiconductor group via the etf SMH. We identified some of the fundamental reasons for the massive out-performance in the space that had has resulted …
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Event: Citigroup (C) is scheduled to report its Q3 results Friday before the open. The options market is implying about a 3% one day move in either direction, which is a tad higher than the …
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On Friday we previewed Nike’s (NKE) fQ1 results that were issued yesterday after the close. We felt the combination of relative under-performance of the stock, its precarious technical set up sitting on near and long term support and the …
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On August 24th we took a look at the goldminer etf GDX. The GDX has had a pretty remarkable 2016, more than doubling from the low teens to over $30 before recently pulling back a …
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Yesterday we previewed earnings events inboth Adobe (ADBE) and FedEx (FDX). In both cases we offered a stock alternative. In Adobe we also included a leverage trade for existing shareholders and in FDX we included …
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To state the obvious, after a long Summer dirt nap, volatility has picked up over the past 2 weeks after the SPX fell quickly through its 50 day moving average before finding support at a …
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A few weeks ago we looked at a possible yield enhancement strategy for those that were long Apple stock. The idea behind the trade was to sell a strangle in the stock, acting as a …
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A couple weeks ago on Sept 2nd (Apple (AAPL) – Release Me) we detailed a bearish leaning, defined risk strategy in Apple heading into their Sept 7th iPhone 7 launch event when the stock was $107.50 …
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Two weeks ago on August 24th we took a look at GDX, the Vaneck Vectors Gold Miners etf, on one of its worst down days it had seen in months. We laid out a scenario where …
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