Friday’s tragic events in Paris punctuated what has been a very bloody couple of weeks at the hands of ISIS. First on October 30th with the downing of a Russian commercial flight from Egypt, killing all 224 people …
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NYU Stern School Professor Scott Galloway‘s presentation (The Four Horsemen: Amazon/Apple/Facebook & Google–Who Wins/Loses) at the recent DLD15 conference is getting a lot play in the financial press this week. Not just because of his brilliant delivery but …
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On Monday I initiated a bearish position on YUM (below) suggesting that their analyst day could serve as a negative catalyst for the shares given the stock’s recent 20% bounce off of the Oct lows, …
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This Thursday Yum Brands (YUM) is holding their annual analyst day in NYC. Given McDonald’s (MCD) disappointing global sales (including Asia) where YUM gets more than half of their sales, I could see YUM giving …
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The most exciting trading was primarily in earnings stocks. 1. CTRX – Citrix Systems, 10 times average option volume. Calls to puts 4.4:1. IV30 was up almost 10 points. Earnings after the bell today. Looks …
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On a day when the VIX was up more than 10%, a lot of single stock call trading continued. ORCL – Someone rolled their short Dec 33 calls out to the June 35 calls, paying …
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NTAP $41.38 -Company reports their fiscal Q1 tonight after the close. -options market is currently implying about a 9.5% move (this has moved up in the last few days) vs the average move of about …
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