The Home Depot (HD) has been one of those stocks that holds a special place in investors hearts over the last few years, gaining 350% from its 2011 lows, and tripling the performance of the …
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On January 6th we targeted the consumer discretionary etf (XLY) for a pullback (read here) as a sort of chicken-shit way to get short exposure on some prior market leaders like AMZN, NFLX, HD, NKE, SBUX. …
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To state the obvious, positive returns in U.S. equity markets were hard to come by unless you were invested in a couple dozen large cap growth stocks. And from a trading perspective it was a fool’s …
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Event: The Home Depot (HD) reports Q3 results tomorrow before the opening. The options market is implying about a 3.5% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr avg move of about 2.6%. …
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If the start of this post sounds familiar, well it is, its the exact post prior to the trade idea we just detailed in Starbucks (SBUX), but in this trade idea we are going to …
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Remember the Flash Crash back on May 6th 2010? I do. The S&P 500 opened at 1164, unchanged from the prior session, traded down nearly 100 points to 1065, and rallied back intra day to …
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Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Aug 17h – Aug 21st: It has been our view for months that the fairly extraordinary volatility in global …
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Event: Target (TGT) reports Q2 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about a 3% one day move which is a tad rich to the 4 qtr avg of about 2.5%.
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Event: Tomorrow before the open The Home Depot (HD) will report Q2 results. The options market is implying a 3.3% one day move, which is in line with the 4 qtr avg move. With the …
Continue readingHome improvement has been a bright spot in what has emerged as a fairly mixed domestic retail environment in 2015. The undisputed leader in the space has been The Home Depot (HD), a stock that is …
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