March 16, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Earlier (below) I closed the March 65/67.50 call spread that I entered nearly one month ago in Macy’s. The original trade was to express a bullish view into the company’s Q4 earnings.  As I stated in …

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February 25, 2015 by CC • Commentary

Macy’s has had an interesting 24+hours. Following the release of their Q4 earnings report the stock seems to be a a bit confused.Initially it opened unchanged but quickly came under pressure yesterday, getting as low …

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February 20, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

A couple weeks ago I took a look at Macy’s (read below) after strong sales results for Kohls, another U.S. retail that should get the benefit from no strong dollar exposure and a consumer that …

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February 6, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Yesterday in my MorningWord (Retail Therapy) I discussed the investor push and pull for U.S. retailers between those with little to no exposure to a strong dollar that benefit from lower oil (both from the benefit to their consumers and …

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December 5, 2014 by Dan • Commentary

This morning in my Notable Options Activity post I highlighted some short dated put buying in the industrial etf XLI .  What I found interesting about XLI is that three of its five largest components (who make …

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