Event: Palo Alto Networks (PANW) reports fiscal Q2 results after the close tonight, the options market is implying about a 7% one day move*, vs the 4 & 8 qtr average of about 6.5%. *The …
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Event: HPQ reports fiscal Q1 tonight after the close, the options market implying about a 5% move, vs the 4 qtr avg of about 4.25%. With the stock at $38 the Feb27th weekly 38 straddle is …
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Event: HPQ reports its fiscal Q4 earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 3.5% one day move, which is quite a bit alower than the 4 qtr avg of about …
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Event: HPQ reports its fiscal Q3 earnings on Wednesday after the close. The options market is implying about a 5% one day move, which is quite a bit lower than the 4 qtr avg of …
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Hewlett-Packard is an impressive success story or a miserable failure. It’s all about perspective. Over the past 15 years, HPQ stock is flat, despite riding the global computing wave and more than doubling sales in …
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ETFs more active than single stock options, a theme that has persisted for much of the past 2 weeks. With the VIX hitting a new 1 year intraday low, implied volatility in many options contracts …
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Stock volumes were elevated, though single stock options volumes were less so, as investors were focused on macro portfolio adjustments after the FOMC announcement. 1. SPY – Interestingly, calls were more active than usual while puts …
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Back on Jan 15th, in a post titled Sagging DDDs, I stated that the 3D story was a “sector I just don’t get”, while giving props to those that were early and saw gains that …
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Event: HPQ reports their fiscal Q1 tonight after the close, the options market is implying a one day move of about 8.5% vs the 4 qtr avg of about 12.5% and the 8 qtr avg …
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Yesterday’s price action reminded me a whole heck of a lot of what we became used to in 2013, at least from a leadership standpoint. Large cap tech led the way, high valuation internet roared, …
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