As we discussed earlier today, HPQ had a high risk of pinning the $28 strike. It looks likely to do so as the day has progressed, so we are going to take the trade off …
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HPQ has been quite a mover since its earnings gap higher at the end of November. This was a trade that we could have exited on a couple occasions in the last 2 weeks for …
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Here is a quick recap of all of the trades that we initiated, closed, managed or expired in the week that was Nov 25th – Nov 29th:
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We previewed HPQ’s fiscal Q4 earnings release yesterday morning. Our key takeaway from that preview: HPQ is one of the best performing hardware stocks of 2013. That strong outperformance is largely a function of dismal …
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Generally a quiet day in the markets until late in the afternoon where most indices gave up all of the the morning gains. Here is a quick recap of some of the most interesting options …
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Event: HPQ reports its fiscal Q4 earnings on Tuesday after the close. The options market is implying about a 7.5% one day move, which is much lower than the 4 qtr avg of about 13.5% …
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Event: HPQ will report their fiscal Q3 earnings tonight after the close. The options market is implying a one day earnings move of about 9% vs the trailing 4 qtr avg move of 12.30%. Sentiment: …
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Event: FIO reports fiscal Q4 earnings tomorrow after the close. The options market is implying about a 17% move, yes 17%, which is rich to the 13.5% avg move over the last 8 qtrs since …
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Calls a good bit more active, as CBOE Put/Call Ratio fell to 0.78 today. FB – The stock almost touched its IPO level of $38, making it to 37.96 in the afternoon. Call to put ratio …
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Continuing the trend of very low volumes on Mondays for the past 3 weeks. ATVI – Trader rolled the Sept 17 calls up to the Sept 19 calls, selling the call spread 55k times at 0.96. …
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