Well, I assume you got the memo by now that last week was the best week for the S&P500 since July 2009, seeing an almost 6% rally and closing at 2 month highs. From a …
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IBM reports 10/17 after close. The options market only implying 3% move. The 4 qtr average is about 3.25% The stock up 28% vs Nasdaq unchanged on the year. The Street is oddly mixed on …
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NTAP $41.38 -Company reports their fiscal Q1 tonight after the close. -options market is currently implying about a 9.5% move (this has moved up in the last few days) vs the average move of about …
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Yesterday, as I pondered the week ahead, I wanted to place a higher priority on corporate earnings as opposed to the theatrics associated with our ineffectual elected officials in Washington and their inability to reach …
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IBM hasn’t set its report date yet but Bloomberg has it estimated at July 19th based on past reporting…..IBM is one of the best performing stocks in DJIA up 20% ytd and up 9% since …
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Dan hinted a little about this in his earlier post on the Nasdaq Composite‘s tendency to overshoot, and I wanted to follow up on it a little bit. One of the reasons you won’t see …
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Friday’s rally in the SPX was fairly impressive for a couple of reasons; first it was the greatest % gain of the five day rally and second although it came on a Friday before a long holiday …
Continue readingI thought I had this one and frankly I did for a while as the stock traded down to 161.50 earlier in the month…..my critical error in this one was that I was trying to …
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For the last few weeks I have been scratching my head and wondering when the equity markets would start to recognize that the economy is slowing at around the exact time the fed will be …
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Update May 25th, 2011 @ 1:34pm: see IBM July Put Spread Below NTAP reports tonight after the close….Options market is implying about a 6% move which is basically inline with the 8 qtr average move …
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