Event: Palo Alto (PANW) reports their fiscal Q2 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 10% one day move, which is rich to the 4 quarter average of about 5%. …
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You probably noticed that Tech stocks are screaming higher today on the heels of better than expected results from AMZN, GOOGL & MSFT. What you might have missed are two pockets within tech that are not …
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THIS: AND THIS: ARE VERY DIFFERENT THAN THIS: AND THIS: GOOGL’s one day market cap gain last Friday of about$60 billion was equal to more than the combined market capitalization’s of FTNT & NFLX (even after their …
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Calls were more active than puts yesterday, with the CBOE Put/Call ratio down to 0.80, its second lowest reading of the past 2 months. 1. F – Ford made a one month high yesterday, and the …
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VIX spot has made a round trip from 16 to 31 and back to 16 in less than 2 weeks. The S&P 500 index has been volatile on the way up as well as down, …
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Second largest down day in the indices in the past month, ahead of the FOMC minutes this afternoon. Options volumes were concentrated in a few names. 1. IGT – Seller of over 100k of the Aug …
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1. HLF – I think it is safe to say that the stock had a fairly crappy day, down almost 10% in sympathy with NUS, which at one point today was down 50% from last …
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