Perusing the performance of overseas markets early this morning the weakness in Japan’s Nikkei (down 2.4% on the session) stuck out like a sore thumb. The Nikkei is down on the year after being up nearly …
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All is right in the world again, the Troika won, China Stabilized its stock market and thus saved its economy, and Netflix registered blow-out subscribers (full disclosure I attempted a defined risk short trade into …
Continue readingU.S. multinationals have had no shortage of headwinds over the last year with the volatility of currencies and commodities being s constant push and pull on earnings. Now the uncertainty regarding the health of the global economy …
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Regular readers know I like to keep my macro commentary on the site short and sweet. That’s because it’s all one big mess and nearly impossible to synthesize into a cogent investment thesis. If the best and brightest central bankers, economists, …
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In case you missed (sarcasm font needed), there is some funky stuff going on in China as it relates to their stock markets. Government regulators in an attempt to stabilize the sell off have halted …
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Back on June 19th we detailed a bearish near term trade in shares of JPMorgan (JPM) targeting the July expiration that would catch the company’s Q2 earnings report (read here). The thought at the time …
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This morning is one of those days where everyone with a Twitter or Facebook login gets to offer an opinion on Greece. The financial news sharing economy is full tilt and it’s dizzying. I would guess that …
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Nearly a month ago I put on a bearish trade in the SPY for a whole host of reasons (read below), and targeted the end of this month. To refresh, from May 29th: TRADE: SPY …
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There have been few catalysts as bullish for U.S. equities than sell offs of single digits percentages off of new all time highs. It has been a wildly profitable strategy the past few years to …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was May 26th to May 29th:
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