May 9, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

In this past weekend’s Barron’s, The Striking Price author Steve Sears, highlighted Goldman Sachs’ fundamental and derivative research on Boeing (BA) in front of the company’s annual analyst day this Wednesday (Goldman Gloomy on Boeing Outlook).  …

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January 26, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Boeing (BA) reports Q4 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about a 4% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr average one day move of 2.5%, and …

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September 18, 2015 by CC • Commentary

Back on July 10th (here) we placed a defined risk bearish trade in Boeing (BA) and gave the following rationale: U.S. multinationals have had no shortage of headwinds over the last year with the volatility of …

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August 23, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Aug 17h – Aug 21st: It has been our view for months that the fairly extraordinary volatility in global …

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July 17, 2015 by CC • Commentary

I wanted to go over a couple shorts that we have placed in the midst of this rally and see what of anything we should be looking to do to minimize the damage. First, let’s …

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July 10, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

U.S. multinationals have had no shortage of headwinds over the last year with the volatility of currencies and commodities being s constant push and pull on earnings. Now the uncertainty regarding the health of the global economy …

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April 10, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

A fortnight ago we considered portfolio protection using the SPY (read here).  Since that time the S&P 500 is up about 2%, and once again threatening to make a new all time high, now just 1% …

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