MorningWord 7/2/13: As a fairly new entrepreneur, I hope I never have to do what ZNGA Founder & CEO did just yesterday, fire himself. Yesterday ZNGA announced the hire of Don Mattrick for the CEO role, MSFT’s former …
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Here is a preview of what I will be discussing tonight on Options Action on CNBC tonight at 5:30 pm est: Earlier today in the MorningWord (below) I laid out the case for taking a …
Continue readingMorningWord 6/14/13: Catching sentiment shifts in unloved stocks can be one of the most satisfying feelings as a trader/investor. The only problem with doing so is that more often than not you will be early. …
Continue readingTech dominated volumes today, with CSCO leading the way after a big beat. CSCO – May calls dominated volumes, with the weekly 24 strike call the most active single stock option in the market today, average …
Continue readingEarlier today (below) we previewed a few high short interest names that were set to report earnings this evening. Of the names that we looked at, GMCR stuck out to me as the one that …
Continue readingHere is a quick technical preview of some high short interest names reporting earnings tonight: TSLA: Implied Move: The options market is implying about a 13% move vs the 4 qtr avg move of ~7.5% and the …
Continue readingNo theme stood out among the largest trades today. On a relatively low volume day: AAPL – I would have expected greater volume on the day of the earnings announcement. The 650 strike calls in …
Continue readingTrade Update, August 29th, 2012, 12:55 pm: ENIS: As I wrote on the August 14th update, I initiated the GRPN with the hope of making 0.25 to 0.30 in a good scenario, and losing 0.05 …
Continue readingTrade Update, August 14th, 2012: ENIS: When I executed the GRPN Jan13 6 / 4 1×2 put spread, I did it with the understanding that I would not likely see a very quick payout right …
Continue readingWe took a hard look at a whole host of different trades after writing the preview of tonight’s earnings report. Dan and I arrived at entirely different trades that we executed, both detailed below: …
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