Home 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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Event: AMZN reports Q2 results tonight after the close, the options market is implying about a 10% one day move which is a tad shy of the 4 qtr avg move of 11.5%. Price Action …
Continue readingNKE reports its earnings after the close, and the stock sits just below the crucial $80 breakout level as I type. In fact, that stock has moved below $80 for the first time since the early September …
Continue readingA few weeks a back I wanted to make a bullish play in AAPL heading into the holiday selling season. Since I bought the near the money Dec 525/550/575 Call Butterfly on Nov 1st (below), …
Continue readingPrior to AAPL’s fiscal Q4 results last week I sold an Iron Condor (sold an out of the money call spread, and a an out of the money put spread) in an effort to sell …
Continue readingAAPL’s hotly anticipated fiscal Q4 earnings report was met with a big ol’ thump this week, with the stock down a little more than 1% since last Friday, and the one day event move dramatically …
Continue readingMorningWord 10/29/13: AAPL’s highly anticipated Q4 results and guidance for Q1 were received last night after the close with a massive MEH. Throughout our writing leading up the event (preview here, trades below), we repeatedly …
Continue readingAs I stated in our quarterly preview (below) and the Name That Trade post from earlier this afternoon (here), the Sept 23rd statement from the company suggesting that revenues and gross margins will be at …
Continue readingTake-Two reports earnings after the close today, though the real interest in the stock is from the release of the latest game in the Grand Theft Auto franchise, which analysts expect to provide a major …
Continue readingEarlier today (below) we previewed a few high short interest names that were set to report earnings this evening. Of the names that we looked at, GMCR stuck out to me as the one that …
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