April 6, 2016 by CC • Trade Updates

As Dan discussed earlier, U.S. stocks are are a fairly interesting spot, either back and filling a bit for a push to prior highs, or merely a series of lower highs that he believes to be …

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April 6, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

Back in late November, the day the long rumored buyout/merger agreement between Pfizer (PFE) and Ireland based maker of Botox, Allergen (AGN) was announced, I said the weakness in PFE leading up to the deal made the stock …

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April 5, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

Remember back when the financial world was ending in early February and investors hastily sold shares of LinkedIn (LNKD) down 43% in a single day, more than 50% on the year, shedding more than $10 billion …

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April 4, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

There has been little doubt that home improvement retailers like The Home Depot (HD) and Lowe’s (LOW) have been massive outliers for the last few years in what has been a very difficult retail environment …

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April 1, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

Earlier I had some thoughts on Tesla’s unveiling of their mass market electric vehicle expected to ship in late 2017 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (see below).  I wanted to follow up with a trade idea not too different then the …

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February 24, 2016 by CC • Trade Updates

Dan gave his latest thoughts on JPM this morning. We have an existing short delta trade that we’ll now update and reduce some premium risk. The original trade idea was a put calendar when the …

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February 11, 2016 by CC • Trade Updates

We’ve been for months on RiskReversal that while there’s a lot to avoid in this market, there are a few investment thesis that have a high probability of success in volatile times. Some of these theses can be considered …

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February 2, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

Back on January 15th we laid out a bullish case for being long U.S. Treasuries and detailed our bullish trade in the TLT, the iShares 20 year Treasury Bond etf to reflect this view (read: Trade …

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