July 28, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Alphabet (GOOGL) reports Q2 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 5% one day move, which is cheap to the 4 qtr average of about 7%, and shy of the …

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July 27, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Facebook (FB) reports Q2 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about an 6% one day move tomorrow (above last quarter’s 8% implied move), which is shy to the 4 qtr average …

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June 21, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Back in August if 2011, Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of venture capital firm Andreessen-Horowitz penned a prescient essay in the Wall Street Journal explaining; Why Software Is Eating The World. At the time, skeptics wondered …

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May 4, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Interesting read from Mohamed El-Erian, the chief economic adviser to Allianz: FYI, thoughts on recent #markets developments and outlook, & the implications for #investment portfolios https://t.co/SGlbxTtXPB @FT #stocks — Mohamed A. El-Erian (@elerianm) May 4, 2016 Usually …

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May 2, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

On Friday, shares of Chinese search behemoth Baidu (BIDU) closed up 5% on the day (after being up 8%) as a result of the company’s Q1 results and better than expected revenue outlook. Today BIDU is down 7.5% on …

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April 27, 2016 by CC • Trade Ideas

Dan had a great preview of Facebook’s Q1 earnings due after the bell. Our view is that over the long term some of the same pain that they are causing their online competitors will eventually …

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April 27, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Facebook (FB) reports Q1 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about an 8% one day move tomorrow (above last quarter’s 7% implied move), which is rich to the 4 qtr average …

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April 26, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Apple (AAPL) reports fiscal Q2 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 4.5% one day move, which is shy of the implied move prior to their Q1 report in late January of 6.25%, …

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