Here is a summary of what I will be discussing tonight on Options Action on CNBC at 5:30pm: Ok I get it, Euro Bank/Debt Contagion fears are SO 2011/2012, but my sense if the last …
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Yesterday we previewed LNKD’s Q4 earnings report expected tonight after the close (below) and our takeaway was that we did not have a clear directional bias. The options market seems to price the move as …
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Event: LNKD reports their Q4 earnings tomorrow night after the close. The options market is implying about a 8%* move vs the 6 qtr avg move of ~8.5% (company has only been public for 6 qtrs). …
Continue readingTrade Update Dec 12th, 2012: Talk about messing with a perfectly good trade by trying to get a little cute. In late Sept when YHOO was seemingly left for dead (stock around $16) I bought …
Continue reading3rd Trade Update Nov 8th, 2012 at 3:06pm: Back in mid Oct, prior to GS’s Q3 earnings report, I made the assumption that the results were not likely to be a big mover for the stock, …
Continue readingTrade Update Nov 5th, 2012: YHOO is up about 7% since my Jan call purchase (below) in late Sept, and just now making new 52 week highs. On a near term basis, the stock looks …
Continue readingTrade Update Oct 23rd, 2012 at 3;45pm: With GS back below 120, and having collected the premium from the October 115 puts that I sold in my original trade, I want to further reduce my …
Continue readingSome big calls and call spreads traded today: LYB – Someone bought more than 50k of the Nov 57.5 / 60 call spread paying 0.60 and 0.65 between 12 and 1pm. Commentary from GS analysts …
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Health care is outperforming the broader S&P 500 for the second straight year, the first time in a decade that this has happened. Health care is generally known to outperform in weak markets. This year …
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Here’s a preview of what I’ll be talking about on Options Action tonight at 5pm on CNBC. As Enis mentioned in the Name That Trade post earlier today, the Oct / Nov 41 put …
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