Bank of America (BAC) is seeing red today as their capital return plan got a “conditional pass” having to resubmit for the second straight year. On a day that the S&P 500 is up …
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I know you already know this, but the Russell 2000 severely lagged the S&P500 (SPX) in 2014 (up only 3.5% vs its large cap brethren up 11.5%). I know that you also already know that …
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I fear death as much as the next guy, but death has been one of the themes of late in the chart patterns of some of our target shorts. For the better part of 2014 …
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Back on December 10th (read below) we discussed the potential for the Russell 2000 (via the IWM) to close at our near the prior 2014 highs. We detailed a defined risk way to play for such an …
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There has been a lot written about the under-performance of the small cap Russell 2000 Index (up 1% ytd) to that of its large cap brethren the S&P500 (up 11% ytd) in 2014. On more …
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A little over a month ago we initiated a structure in GOOGL that looked for a slight pullback in shares based both on technicals (declining momentum) and what we thought were some pretty unrealistic growth …
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There are few who would dispute that Google (GOOGL) has been, and on current estimates remains, one of the best large cap growth stories on a valuation basis. The stock trades at a PE/G (PE …
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I am gonna keep this real simple. In the month’s leading up to Markets in Turmoil 2014™ there was much talk of the divergence between large cap and small cap stocks, as the Russell 2000 …
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This week’s outperformance of IWM over SPY has been notable considering that small cap relative weakness had been a theme of this market for the past 6 months. In fact, IWM is up about 3% …
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Largest volume day in the SPY since August 1st. Options volumes picked up across the board as well, as 10 day realized volatility in the S&P 500 index closed the day near 18, not far …
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