October 27, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Earlier we highlighted the implied move in the options market (along with a few other fun facts) for Amazon.com’s (AMZN) Q3 results due out after the close: The options market is predicting about a 7% …

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October 18, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Shares of Netflix are up 17% as I write after releasing Q2 results showing far better than expected streaming subscriber additions. They also guided Q4 higher. This comes after two consecutive quarters of worse than …

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September 29, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Earlier today I had some thoughts on Costco (COST) into tonight’s earnings results (MorningWord 9/29/16: COST’$ Cut).  The crux of it is becoming painfully obvious, Amazon.com (AMZN) is eating brick and mortar retail’s lunch quarter …

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August 16, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

I know that most investors and pundits see all time highs in the largest equity market in the world as some sort of victory for capitalism. It’s been a victory, but not exactly for “free …

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August 8, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Two weeks ago, Unilever, a company with its origins in Victorian England, and whose mission at that time was ‘to make cleanliness commonplace; to lessen work for women; to foster health and contribute to personal attractiveness, that …

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July 28, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Amazon.com (AMZN) reports their Q2 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about 7% one day move tomorrow, which is shy of its 10 year average one day post earnings move of 9.4%, …

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July 19, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Microsoft (MSFT) reports fiscal Q4 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 4.5% one day move, which is well below the 4 qtr average one day move of about 6.6%, and inline …

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June 2, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

On May 19th, I laid out my near term bearish thesis for shares of MSFT (Clouded by Azure), highlighting investor focus on their public cloud business and valuation: Despite fast growing businesses like Office 365 …

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