January 19, 2017 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Yesterday shares of Target (TGT) declined 5.5% on a disappointing Q4: I think Jeff Macke’s tweet speaks to the magnitude of the pre-announcement and the sell-off: $TGT guides lower 2mo 2 days after guiding higher. Ecommerce …

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November 7, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Event: Walmart (WMT) is scheduled to report their Q3 results on November 17th before the open. The options market is implying about a 4% move in either direction between now and Nov 18th expiration close. …

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June 20, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

On June 14th, I expressed a near term bearish view in Alibaba (BABA) with a defined risk trade that looked to finance August near the money puts with shorted dated puts of the same strike …

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January 25, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Chinese economic slowdown apologists point that the adjustment from an industrial lead economy to a services based economy will be a massive boon for consumer facing companies like Alibaba (BABA) and their competitor JD.com (JD). …

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January 4, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

In case you missed it, weak manufacturing data out of China, released overnight, has put global markets in a bit of a mood.  The S&P 500 (SPX) is set to have its worst first trading …

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June 23, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Tuesday’s trading: 1. T – total options volume was more than 3x average daily volume with calls making 75% of the volume.  The …

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June 2, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

On two occasions over the last 5 weeks I have written about Chinese etailer JD.com (JD), here and here. Initially what caught my eye was the stock’s recent and fairly dramatic out-performance compared to Alibaba (BABA), …

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May 7, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

A couple weeks ago I took a look at the other Chinese eCommerce behemoth that you had probably never heard of, JD.com (JD), see below. The primary focus of the post was the buildup in …

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September 29, 2014 by Enis • Commentary

Today is the first day of trading for BABA.  The company sold shares to fund managers (let’s be honest, it was not really an initial “public” offering) at $68 on the evening of September 18th. Since then, …

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