On September 13th in this space (The Silicon Stock Exchange) I had some thoughts on private tech market valuations: For the first time in a very long time (or at-least in the modern investment era) …
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This is some fairly old school Wall Street sell-side research stock picking, per Bloomberg: Priceline Cut at Deutsche Bank on Limited Upside; Expedia Upped 07:57 Priceline cut to hold from buy by Deutsche Bank analyst …
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A couple weeks ago we made a defined risk trade that MSFT would follow a few other large cap tech stocks in an effort to fill in their lower earnings gaps as broad market sentiment improved. …
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A couple weeks ago we made a bullish trade in MSFT targeting what we feel was the potential for the stock to fill in its earnings gap from late January. To refresh, here was the trade: …
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At the onset of earnings season we saw a handful of gaps lower in stocks that reported results below expectations. There were few that were as pronounced as the 9.25% one day decline by MSFT …
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Yesterday I got a question from a trader on Twitter that I thought I would share, and expand on my answer. So TWTR was above $40 Wednesday and below $37 a day later. What gives? It’s …
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Priceline has been one of the bull market leaders of the past 5 years, which I detailed in a February earnings preview: PCLN has gone up almost twenty-fold in the past 5 years, going from …
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After what felt like a one way freight train in 2013, U.S. equities for the first five and half weeks of 2014 seemingly got derailed. Obviously that sounds a bit dramatic, as we were only …
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Event: EXPE reports Q4 earnings today after the close. The implied one day move in the options market is about 14% (the Feb07 weekly at the money straddle (call plus the put) is offered at …
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After volatile after hours trading, PCLN has settled in, up around 4% on earnings. The stock is within our 990 / 1090 range that we targeted with our iron condor trade yesterday. While we think …
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