March 1, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Shares of enterprise cloud software provider Workday (WDAY) are up nearly 14% today after reporting fourth quarter sales that beat expectations, and grew a whopping 43% year over year (despite guiding the current qtr lower). …

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February 8, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Prior to Facebook’s (FB) Q4 results on Jan 27th, we detailed a bearish put butterfly in February expiration that we considered as an outright bearish trade, or thought fairly suitable for near the money protection …

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February 4, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Event: LinkedIn (LNKD) reports Q4 results tonight after the close.  The options market is implying about a 12% one day move which is essentially in line with the average one day move over the last 4 …

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February 1, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Google (GOOGL) reports Q4 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about 6.5% one day move vs the 4 qtr average one day move of 7.4% and the 10 year average …

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January 28, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

When it comes to investing, taking a skeptical view to consensus thinking, with an eye towards risk management is a good thing. It may help you to lose less (or even make money) when popular opinion shifts …

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November 19, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Last night SalesForce.com (CRM) reported better than expected Q3 results and the stock is trading up 6%, breaking out of a seven month range to new all time highs: Today’s gains of about $3.5 billion …

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August 11, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Shares of Google are up 6% in the pre-market on news that they are changing their corporate structure, with an eye towards greater transparency and accountability for emerging businesses.  You can reader far smarter peeps than …

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