We have made the argument on more than one occasion in the last few months that EBAY could be ripe for an activist picking (as recently as Jan 14th – New Trade $EBAY: eBAIT and back in …
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Event: EBAY reports its Q4 earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 6.25% one day move, which is above the 4 qtr avg of about 4.75% but below the 8 qtr …
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1. EEM – huge roll in puts, out and down. A trader sold 242,000 Jan 41 Puts to close at .92 & bought 242,000 Feb 40 Puts for 1.00 to open. This is a very similar size …
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On a few occasions last year we took a shot on the long side on EBAY (here). The stock remained range-bound for most of the year between $50 and $58. There was money to be …
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Quiet volumes on the half day session on Christmas Eve, with a few tech standouts for options. 1. EBAY – Trader sold more than 50k of the Jan18th 55 calls to close at an average price …
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MorningWord 12/16/13: On more than a couple occasions in 2013, we have attempted to crack the code of EBAY’s embarrassing performance in a raging bull market. In the last couple months we have used the …
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Yesterday we closed a losing bullish trade in EBAY as the stock broke-down below a fairly important technical support level that it had bounced of 5 times this year at $50 (red line below). The …
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Back on Nov 1st we closed a Nov Call Butterfly in EBAY for a gain (here, immediately below) and rolled the exposure out to December with a wider call fly. Well, today the stock has …
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Event: WMT will report their Q3 earnings on Thursday before the open. The options market is implying about a 2.75% move vs the 4 qtr avg move of about 2.35%. Sentiment: Wall Street analysts are …
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We put the EBAY structure on about 2 weeks ago with the thought that EBAY would likely be range bound after earnings given the technical support around $50, but the poor fundamental outlook after a …
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