A little less than a month ago I made a bullish trade with the idea that Macy’s would re-test its prior highs. The thought was that there was plenty of short term bad news in …
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Towards the beginning of March we put on a bearish trade in CTRP, the Chinese online travel site. The thinking at the time was mostly technical with a potential Triangle of Death™ situation in the works …
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A month ago we looked to fade Coke’s (KO) post earnings bounce (read below.) We entered the short biased trade when the stock was $42.55 and now with the stock at $40.25, down 5%, and nearing our short strike …
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Event?: The Chinese online travel company Ctrip.com (CTRP) has yet to report Q4 results. Bloomberg estimates March 13th. A look a their investor relations site (here) is little help, but considering they reported their Q3 on Nov …
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A couple weeks ago we made a defined risk trade that MSFT would follow a few other large cap tech stocks in an effort to fill in their lower earnings gaps as broad market sentiment improved. …
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Macy’s has had an interesting 24+hours. Following the release of their Q4 earnings report the stock seems to be a a bit confused.Initially it opened unchanged but quickly came under pressure yesterday, getting as low …
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A couple weeks ago we made a bullish trade in MSFT targeting what we feel was the potential for the stock to fill in its earnings gap from late January. To refresh, here was the trade: …
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On Friday’s Options Action on CNBC I detailed a short dated bullish trade idea in Macy’s (M). Additionally, Carter Worth shared his bullish technical view of gold and Mike Khouw offered a trade idea to express a bullish outlook on the GDX, the Gold Miners …
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A couple weeks ago I took a look at Macy’s (read below) after strong sales results for Kohls, another U.S. retail that should get the benefit from no strong dollar exposure and a consumer that …
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A week ago we faded the earnings move in Coke (KO) with a simple put spread with a potential 3-1 payout of the stock failed and moved towards our lower strike. Here was the trade …
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