October 27, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Earlier we highlighted the implied move in the options market (along with a few other fun facts) for Amazon.com’s (AMZN) Q3 results due out after the close: The options market is predicting about a 7% …

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September 20, 2016 by Dan • Big Printin'

Shares of Intel (INTC) made a new 52 week high last week following the companies positive pre-announcement for their current quarter: The company now expects third-quarter revenue to be $15.6 billion, plus or minus $300 …

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September 14, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Will they? Won’t they? The financial press (and it seems the political press too) can’t stop with this. Yep, because it’s election season, everyone is playing the guessing game on a possible Fed rate hike …

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February 19, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Earlier in my MorningWord (Seeing the Forest For the Trees) I tried to explain why the relative out-performance in defensive stocks and sectors like U.S. telco, utilities, consumer staples and sectors like energy and materials (that …

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February 12, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Shares of JP Morgan have shown incredible relative strength to every major bank stock the world over, only down 19% from its 52 week highs and down about 14% in 2016.  In the U.S., large …

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October 13, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Yesterday, I touched on the Dell/EMC mega deal that spans across computer hardware, services & software (A Shell Game of Declining Levered Assets).  To sum up, the combination of these two companies in such a complicated …

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