BBRY’s results and lack of guidance and future transparency is an all out disaster, plain an simple. It appears that the new management has fallen victim to some of the bad habits of the old …
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Despite BBRY’s 25% ytd gains, the stock still seems to be stuck in the mud, as much of the gains came in the first month of the year. Investors have been sitting and waiting for …
Continue readingEvent: BBRY will report their fiscal Q1 earnings tomorrow morning prior to the open. The options market is implying about a 12% move post earnings (the June weekly at the money straddle is offered at …
Continue readingRelatively quiet in options, despite the higher-than-normal cash volumes. BAC – Financials reversed early morning strength as European banks closed down 4%. There was a buyer of 75k of the May 11 puts for 0.14 this …
Continue readingFor the past week, I’ve been snooping around the market looking for appealing trade ideas as I always do, and it’s been much harder than usual. It’s this endless, creeper trend. Just a gradual tick …
Continue readingMorningWord 2/8/13: Last night LNKD reported Q4 sales and earnings that handily beat Wall Street expectations and raised Q1 guidance which could prove to be conservative if the company maintains current quarter over quarter growth rates. …
Continue readingMorningWord 2/7/13: With S&P 500 earnings more than two thirds complete for Q4, the data suggests a fairly healthy beat rate by most of the super-sectors in the index. Yesterday, Bespoke ran a chart showing 64% of the companies …
Continue readingMorningWord 2/6/13: Since the June 2011 announcement that AAPL’s retail head, Ron Johnson was leaving to become JCP’s CEO, the stock and its investors have been on a wild ride. The announcement alone sent the …
Continue readingMorningWord 2/5/13: All that talk of last week of fresh highs in the Dow Jones Industrial Average was bit silly to me, the Dow, Really?? 1960 called, they want their stock index back. The Dow …
Continue readingMorningWord 2/4/13: As a trader, I make my fair share of mistakes, usually not the same one over and over again, but often times it takes a few attempts to break a bad habit …
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