Shares of Facebook (FB) have been stuck between $74 and $82 for the better part of the last six months and importantly have not confirmed a new high in the S&P 500 since late last …
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Yesterday I highlighted the relative under-performance of Bank Of America (BAC) to its moneycenter bank peers Citibank (C) and JP Morgan (JPM) given the company’s second consecutive request to resubmit their capital return plan following …
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The Biotech sector has been a massive out-performer over the last year, with the IBB (iShares Nasdaq Biotech etf) up 13% in 2015, and up 65% since from the 52 week lows made in April of last …
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Regular readers know I try to steer clear of forming deep rooted macro views on the market. But for some reason at the end of last year into the start of 2015 (like others) I …
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For the last few weeks CRM had been on our radar as a technical breakout candidate (here) as the market rally appeared to be broadening out with the Russell 2000 making new highs. Last week …
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In the last few months we have placed two bearish trades in YUM, one for a gain back in December in front of what I expected to be lowered Q4 guidance (here) and one for …
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The Home Depot (HD) reports their Q4 results Tuesday prior to the open, the options market is implying a 3.5% one day move vs the 4 qtr avg of about the same and the 8 qtr …
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A little less than two weeks ago I made the argument and expressed the view (below) that Facebook shares could be vulnerable near term as: it appeared that many prior leaders and momentum stocks lost …
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Back on February 27th I wanted to take a bullish view on GE with the idea that the stock’s underperformance since reporting their Q4 would abate and the stock would play catch up with the …
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Facebook has bounced so far today after an ugly breakdown to its 50 day moving average yesterday. We received a question on our thoughts for our April 65/60/55 put butterfly (post included below) that Dan …
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