November 11, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

On Wednesday (Big Printin’ – XOM Dec Calls) we highlighted some out of the money call buying in Dec expiration in Exxon (XOM): XOM… saw some fairly heavy short dated call volume that was 2.5x that …

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November 9, 2016 by riskreversal • Big Printin'

After some early weakness this morning, Crude Oil held at near term support, and is now threatening to break above the uptrend from the February lows: The technical set up here feels precarious at best, …

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July 20, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

You know the drill, even if you’ve forgotten it. But thanks to Larry McDonald updating a Tweet of his from last Summer, here’s a reminder: Here we go again (2)#Dollar#Oil#Debt — Lawrence McDonald (@Convertbond) July 20, …

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April 1, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

Earlier I had some thoughts on Tesla’s unveiling of their mass market electric vehicle expected to ship in late 2017 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (see below).  I wanted to follow up with a trade idea not too different then the …

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March 11, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Yesterday I highlighted the violent upward reaction in global equities and the Euro following the ECB’s announcement of monetary easing measures.  By the end of the day European equities had traded in a 5% range, …

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March 9, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Prior to Crude Oil’s 45% rally off of last month’s 13 year lows, the commodity declined 75% from its 2014 high, remains 65% off of those levels, and is down about 75% from its 2008 …

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November 12, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

A little more than a month ago on Oct 9th (here) we made a defined risk bearish bet that shares of Exxon (XOM) would fail at the sharp downtrend near $80, that had been in …

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