The relative outperformance of U.S. stocks on Friday was interesting. You know the ol’ saying, the cleanest shirt on a dirty block (or something). This week you’ll see a parade of strategists, fund managers and …
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Regular readers know I haven’t had many positive things to say about the prospects for banks stocks in 2016. My cautious view has had little to do with the recent concern emanating from the increased (yet …
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Some day you will find me Caught beneath the landslide In a champagne supernova in the sky Oasis Last night while sitting on set of CNBC’s Fast Money I got the following text from my main …
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Just as I was starting in this business in early 1997, not knowing shit about shit, I heard rumblings from some of the traders about some whacky stuff going on in Asian currency markets that …
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Bear with me, this is a bit of a think piece, it’s not likely to help you make money, merely some ramblings on what was a fairly confusing last couple days in global financial markets: Earlier …
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The ECB did what it did. Lots of peeps more tuned into macro than moi are parsing through it, but equity markets are ripping, with the Euro Stoxx 50 up 3.5%, the DAX up 2.5% …
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Reminder: I’ll be a panelist on the latest Ticker District webinar this evening, at 8pm If you haven’t already register here: Webinar Preview: As we head into a potentially volatile period with three major central …
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The largest trade in the single stock options pit today was a bullish roll in shares of McDonald’s (MCD). When the stock was $116 a trader sold to close 24,000 March 115 calls at $2.40 …
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For the latter part of 2014 and all of 2015 I had a fairly dim view of committing new capital to U.S. stocks. This view was largely predicated on the idea that U.S. central bank policy …
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On Monday I highlighted a bearish options trade in GE (here): When the stock was $28.86, a trader bought to open 30,000 of the March 26 puts for 28 cents to open ($840,000 in premium), …
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