Event: Twitter (TWTR) reports Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 12% one day move tomorrow. The Oct 30th weekly 31 straddle (the call premium + the put premium) …
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Shares of MSFT are up an astounding 11% today, breaking out to new 15 year highs. The chart now shows little overhead resistance until its prior all time high just below $60 back in 1999: …
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On Tuesday night, I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel hosted by Fidelity, attended by some of their high net worth brokerage clients and large investment advisers. While the intent of the panel …
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Last week it was Intel (INTC) and Seagate (STX), yesterday it was IBM, and today it’s VmWare (VMW), all reporting results and issuing guidance that speak to weak demand from businesses for hardware and services. …
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Event(s): At 8am eastern, Thursday, Oct 22nd McDonald’s (MCD) will report their Q3 results. Later that morning, at 11 am, they will host their annual analyst meeting. The options market is implying about a 2.8% …
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Shares of Twitter rallied almost 5% on Friday after the acknowledgement that former Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer took a 4% stake in the company and in an email to Bloomberg noted that he sees …
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Yesterday, I touched on the Dell/EMC mega deal that spans across computer hardware, services & software (A Shell Game of Declining Levered Assets). To sum up, the combination of these two companies in such a complicated …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Oct 5th to Oct 9th:
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This past Thursday I tool a look at Dupont (DD) and had the following to say regarding the potential for further activist investor interest (Activist Foxcatcher): I suspect we will see activist involvement soon enough, but …
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Prior to the summer, and despite what has seemed like a slow moving trainwreck since Twitter’s CEO resigned (pushed out) in early June, we had a fairly positive view of TWTR as a product, its …
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