U.S. retail stocks are noticeably weak today, with the XRT, the S&P retail etf down 1.5% vs the S&P 500 (SPX) up 1.25%, and the Nasdaq Composite up 2.5%. There are a couple ways to think …
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You can attribute the 6%, 5 day rally in the S&P 500 (SPX) to whatever you like. The negative sentiment might have gotten a tad off-sides leading up to the end of the quarter. But …
Continue readingCyber security software vendor FireEye (FEYE) has had a fairly controversial run as a publicly traded company. Since its September 2013 IPO at $20, the stock is up nearly 80% vs the S&P 500 up 18% …
Continue readingRegular readers know that we try not to get sucked into investment ideas with buzz-phrases like cloud transition, upgrade cycles, back to school etc etc… that’s all mumbo jumbo that technology investors over-use in an …
Continue readingBack in early 1998, when I was still a kid, I completed my first winning trade, it was in enterprise software vendor PeopleSoft (ticker PSFT, a company that was bought by Oracle in 2005 for $10 …
Continue readingYesterday I had the pleasure to talk with Eric Jackson, founder of Hedge Fund IronFire Capital, on his weekly Podcast where we discussed the current market environment, tech stocks, past bear markets and how I got …
Continue readingOn Friday’s Fast Money program on CNBC, Tim Seymour answered viewer question with his thoughts on Apple (AAPL). I rudely interrupted Tim almost right off the bat when he mentioned valuation as justification to own …
Continue readingA little less than two weeks ago we detailed a near term bearish trade in GoPro (GPRO) after the stock’s rally on new product announcements (read below). To refresh, here was the trade from June …
Continue readingEvent: Adobe (ADBE) reports fiscal Q2 results tomorrow after the close. The options market is implying about a 5% one day move which is shy of the 4 & 8 qtr avg one day moves …
Continue readingLast week I discussed GoPro’s (GPRO) announcement that they are entering the drone and virtual reality markets (below). The stock clearly liked the news and his risen about 6% since the start of the month, …
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