Earlier today I closed an AAPL Oct/Nov 500 Call Calendar at $11.80 (here, stock ref $508.80) that I bought for $5.30 when the stock had dipped down to $$467 following their early Sept iPhone event. …
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We posted our detailed thoughts on GOOG in our earnings preview yesterday. GOOG stock has been flat for the past 5 months. This quarter has special importance given its big whiff on Q3 earnings in …
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Event: GOOG reports its Q3 earnings tomorrow night, Oct 17th, after the close. The options market is implying about a 4% one day move, which is below both the 4 qtr avg of about 4.75% …
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Event: YHOO reports its fiscal Q3 earnings on Tuesday, Oct. 15th after the close. The options market is implying about a 5.25% one day move, which is above both the 4 qtr avg of about …
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GOOG just dove on what appears to be a block trade. It has now closed most of its September 4th gap, and is approaching the important support area between 850 and 870 that the stock …
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We laid out a couple posts about GOOG in August, here and here, speaking to the technical nature of GOOG’s underperformance since May. Particularly after yesterday’s Nasdaq reversal, I have been stalking for more leading …
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We’ve decided to take this FB trade off after playing the roll game for the past few expiries. At this point, the October 38 call that we’re long doesn’t have much optionality left, so we’d …
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MorningWord 9/3/13: In case you missed it, MSFT is taking a page out of GOOG’s book and “buying the cow, despite getting the milk for free (basically free)” with their $7 billion purchase of …
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Selling the weekly 40’s worked well this week and made back the loss from gamma last week in the form of decay this week (about 30c.) With the long holiday weekend on the horizon and …
Continue readingHere’s a preview of what I’ll be discussing on Talking Numbers today between 3:20 and 3:30 pm EST on CNBC: GOOG has had a tough time rallying with the market ever since its weak earnings …
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