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New Trade – Stray $CAT

September 9, 2014 by Enis • Commentary

Dan wrote a Name That Trade post on Thursday discussing the setup in CAT, emphasizing the vol dampening impact of the aggressive buyback program: Unfortunately for CAT, this earnings recovery doesn’t have a whole heck of …

MorningWord 9/5/14: Peeking Under the Hood of Accelerated Share Repurchases $AAPL $CAT

September 5, 2014 by Dan • Commentary

Yesterday in a post about Caterpillar (CAT Scratch Fever) I highlighted the company’s strategy to manufacture earnings growth despite 2 consecutive annual sales declines (2014 sales are expect to be down 16% from 2012’s peak): …

Name That Trade – $CAT Scratch Fever

September 4, 2014 by Dan • Commentary

After what can only be described as a massive under-performance for Caterpillar (CAT) in 2013 (up 1% vs the SPX up 30%), the stock is making up for lost ground in 2014, up about 20% …

Chart of the Day: The $JOY of Stox

July 16, 2014 by Dan • Commentary

Joy Global is up nearly 8% making new 52 week highs on takeover rumors. Options volumes exploded, trading almost 10x avg daily volume, with most of the activity in short dated call buying, as expected, …

Chart of the Day – CAT Getting its Tongue Ripped Out

May 20, 2014 by Dan • Commentary

Its hard to find a larger beneficiary of the rotation year to date out of high valuation growth stocks into low growth large cap “defensive” issues like Caterpillar (CAT). Prior to today’s 4% decline, the stock …

Trade Update – $CAT Nipped

February 25, 2014 by Enis • Commentary

Since we first entered our CAT trade almost a month ago, the stock has been a one way train higher. Even with Chinese shares moving lower in the past week, CAT has mostly ignored that …

Chart of the Day – The $CAT is Out of the Bag

February 24, 2014 by Dan • Commentary

After CAT’s false start in 2013, culminating in a 20% drop from the Jan highs to the April lows, traders were locked in a sort of bull bear tug of war where the bears were …

Trading Diary: February 3rd – 7th

February 9, 2014 by Dan • Commentary

Here is a quick recap of all of the trades that we initiated, closed, managed or expired in the week that was Feb 3rd – Feb 7th:

Trading Diary: Jan 27th – Jan 31st

February 2, 2014 by Enis • Commentary

Here is a quick recap of all of the trades that we initiated, closed, managed or expired in the week that was Jan 27th – Jan 31st:

New Trade – $CAT Nip

January 27, 2014 by Enis • Commentary

Caterpillar reported better-than-expected earnings this morning, and the stock is trading up more than 6% in the pre-market, near its 2014 highs around $93. So is this a clean change of trend after a dismal …

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