Event: HD reports its fiscal Q3 earnings tomorrow morning before the open. The options market is implying about a 3.25% one day move, which is in line with both the 4 and 8 quarter average of …
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Retailers had quite a day yesterday. Macy’s (M) rallied 5% on weak guidance. Target (TGT) is at new highs for 2014 and only 1% away from the 52 week high made a year ago. Even …
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Earlier today we previewed TWTR’s Q3 earnings event after the close. We wanted to take those inputs and offer a few strategies based on existing positioning and/or directional bias: Stock replacement/alternative for existing longs: TRADE: TWTR ($48.70) …
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Event: TWTR reports its Q3 results tonight after the market close. The options market is implying a one day move in either direction of almost 14%, which is shy to the three quarter average of …
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HD hit a new all-time high today, rising just about 10% from the intraday low last week. The stock’s rapid snapback rally is especially interesting for a $127 billion market cap stock that normally exhibits …
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Thirty day at the money implied volatility (price of options) in the S&P 500 index has neared its 2 year high in the last week, accompanying the increase in realized volatility (how much the underlying is …
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Event: AA reports its Q3 earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 5% one day move, which is slightly above the 4 qtr avg of about 4.25%, and well above …
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For the most part, investors walked away from Q2 earnings season here in the U.S mildly optimistic about the pace of the economic recovery. As of early September the S&P 500 was at all time …
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Back on Aug 19th we highlighted the potential for NKE to follow suit with some other large cap stocks that had recently broken out of long bases to new all time highs (see below). …
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Yesterday afternoon Home Depot (HD) released a statement regarding a data breach, but offering little information as to the scale, causing a 3% decline in the stock in a matter of minutes: As the chart above …
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