Yesterday, we previewed Applied Material’s (AMAT) fiscal Q4 earnings due after the bell. As we said, AMAT is one of the best performing stocks in the entire stock market in 2016. With the stock’s nearly 10% …
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Event: Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials (AMAT) reports fiscal Q4 results tomorrow night after the close. The options market is implying about a 5.5% one day move Friday, which is well shy of the 4 qtr one …
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Here is some large siazable options activity that caught my eye in today’s trading: XOP: the S&P Oil & Gas etf was down more than 2% as Crude Oil has one of its worst days in …
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Event: Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials (AMAT) reports fiscal Q1 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 4.5% one day move tomorrow, which is rich to the 4 qtr one …
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In mid October we placed a bullish leaning trade in Applied Materials (here), that in hindsight was too cute with the extension of the rally that was yet to come. We looked to finance January calls …
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Earlier in a post titled Early Bird Gets the Worm? I highlighted what seems to be a never ending urge to merge among semiconductor companies, with two fairly large rumored deals just this week. The week …
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U.S. tech companies are in a full on merger mania. It feels like every day there is a new semiconductor company that has put themselves up for sale, or in talks to merge (just this …
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Regular readers know we have been skeptical of bullish calls over the last couple years relating to a supposed refresh cycles for PCs. It is our belief ( as well as many much smarter than …
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A couple weeks ago we took a look at AMAT after the stock’s decline on the announcement that they were scrapping their previously announced merger with Tokyo Electron (below). Over the last week the stock …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was April 27th to May 1st:
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