Trade Update Feb 26th, 2013 at 1:45pm: COST has remained amazingly resilient since Feb 15th when I bought March 100 puts. During that time period, the SPX is down about 2.2%, while COST down about …
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Wal-Mart’s executive emails were just leaked 30 minutes ago, and the company’s management didn’t paint a pretty picture of the U.S. consumer to start 2013. Apparently, February sales are a “total disaster” at the retail …
Continue readingTrade Update Dec 11th, 2012 at 3:21 pm: Costco is finally seeing some profit taking with less than an hour to the markets close prior to tomorrow’s Q1 earnings report. With the market kind of bailing …
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Update Dec 11th, 2012: COST reports fiscal Q1 earnings tomorrow before the opening. The options market is implying about a 2.25% move following the report, which is rich to the 4 qtr avg and …
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Event: report fiscal Q1 earnings on 12/12/12 (prior to the open), the options market is implying about a 2.5% move vs the 4 qtr avg of about 1.5%. COST has been a monster this year, …
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Here’s a look at the biggest losers in the SPX top 100 yesterday, along with their approximate YTD gains: AAPL -2% (YTD +57%) T -1.8% (YTD +20%) DIS -1.7% (YTD +33%) MO -1.9% (YTD +16%) …
Continue readingHere’s a preview of what I’ll be discussing on Talking Numbers today between 3:20 and 3:30 pm CNBC: COST has been a bastion of strength over the last couple years, capitalizing on a weak recovery …
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As of 9AM the S&P futures are up 1% on a whole host of news this am that is being perceived fairly positively as we head into some important data on jobs tomorrow and earnings …
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