December 9, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Updates

On Wednesday, we previewed Costco’s fiscal Q1 earnings. The stock is up on the report and now near the 160 level we were looking at on the upside. I wanted to check back in on …

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December 7, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

The retail sector is one of the best performing since the early hours of Nov 9th following the surprise election results, with the XRT (the S&P retail etf up nearly 15%, very near 52 week …

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November 4, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Nearly 55% of the S&P 500 (SPX) have reported calendar Q3 earnings so far. Here’s a quick scorecard with some projections from FactSet’s Earning’s Insight: Far from a disaster, as a whole, but the SPX …

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September 29, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Earlier today I had some thoughts on Costco (COST) into tonight’s earnings results (MorningWord 9/29/16: COST’$ Cut).  The crux of it is becoming painfully obvious, Amazon.com (AMZN) is eating brick and mortar retail’s lunch quarter …

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September 29, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Costco (COST) will report fiscal Q4 results tonight after the close.  The options market is implying about a 3% move tomorrow in either direction. That’s rich to the 4 qtr average one day post earnings …

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September 16, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

I’m literally dumbfounded by Apple’s (AAPL) 12% gains from Monday’s lows on seemingly no new news.  Sentiment around their new products was low, and now they are high. I thought the stock was a sale …

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March 2, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Costco reports fiscal Q2 results after the close. The options market is implying a 4% one day move, which is more than double the 4 qtr average of a little less than 2% and …

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December 13, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Dec 7th to Dec 11th: Trade Idea – $XLU: Utility Player We continue to think the risk reward …

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