Since last Tuesday’s close, shares of Pepsi (PEP) are down nearly 7% in a straight line. Now a lot of things have gone down since then, but probably nothing more important for a company that …
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Since the start of 2014, shares of Proctor & Gamble (PG) are essentially unchanged, up $2, or about 2.5%, vs the S&P 500 (SPX) up about 13% during the same period. The dividend yield on the …
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To suggest that shares of Disney (DIS) bounced off a key technical support level yesterday, just above $90 is an understatement, yielding a 4% reversal from those levels. The one year chart of DIS shows …
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Shares of General Electric (GE), up nearly 20% on the year, have doubled the performance of the S&P 500 (SPX) off of its 2009 financial crisis lows. It’s important to place some context around that …
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Event: TJX Companies (TJX) reports Q3 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about 8.5% one day move, which is massively rich to its 4 qtr average one day move of 3.4%. …
Continue readingOn Wednesday we laid out a bearish trade idea in the IBB, the iShares Nasdaq Biotech etf (read here) largely as a result of a poor technical set up, poor relative performance to other market …
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Event: Yahoo (YHOO) reports Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 5.5% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr average move of only 2.5%, and a …
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Our worst trade of 2014 was trying to pick a bottom late last summer in the USO (the U.S. oil fund etf) when Crude Oil had just broken $100 on the downside (here, but only …
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Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money Dan highlighted some put activity in the XLF, the Financial Sector etf. Watch here: ? Here were Dan’s notes for the segment: Sizzle: put volume was 1.5x average daily volume. …
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We have had no shortage of questions recently on how to play the USO for a reversal in crude. I wanted to share a write up that I did for a friend who manages money for …
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