When it comes to trading/investors, there are few things that are worse than losing money. When it comes to making money in the markets, there are no shortage of frustrations, usually why you didn’t make …
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We’ve been pretty thematic in our trading the past few months on RiskReversal. Hedge your portfolio (e.g. IWM, SPY, QQQ), avoid anything with strong dollar and international exposure and hide out in treasuries (e.g. TLT), …
Continue readingIn mid December we made a bullish case for shares of Qualcomm (QCOM), legging into a long February Call position through a calendar structure (read here from December 14). With out short strike in the money …
Continue readingIn late November, heading into what was a near certainty that the U.S. Fed would put an end to their zero interest rate policy in their December FOMC meeting, we decided to put on a trade that …
Continue readingIt’s a scary time to be committing new capital to equities. We’ve been very clear about the caution that investors should be showing in this environment. We detailed tactical portfolio hedges right before the New …
Continue readingWe had a hunch 2016 could get off to a rocky start. With the way stocks creeped higher into year end 2015, shaking off headwinds left and right, we thought it wise to detail some …
Continue readingOn December 22nd we detailed a trade in McDonalds (MCD) that looked to fade the recent breakout in the stock. We chose a slightly out of the money put fly to express this view and …
Continue readingLast week we thought that Walmart’s (WMT) year to date out-performance was a bull trap in a bad market after the stock had experienced massive under-performance the prior year. We expressed this bearish view buying merely …
Continue readingOn January 6th we targeted the consumer discretionary etf (XLY) for a pullback (read here) as a sort of chicken-shit way to get short exposure on some prior market leaders like AMZN, NFLX, HD, NKE, SBUX. …
Continue readingOn Wednesday we previewed Intel’s (INTC) Q4 earnings. Here were some of our thoughts: While management will go out of their way to highlight future diversification from PC chips, in Q3 their were few segments …
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