Event: HPQ reports fiscal Q1 tonight after the close, the options market implying about a 5% move, vs the 4 qtr avg of about 4.25%. With the stock at $38 the Feb27th weekly 38 straddle is …
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Microsoft was down nearly 15% last week after giving disappointing forward guidance. Their core Office and Windows businesses had been benefiting from the company’s move a year ago to stop supporting Windows XP which caused …
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Microsoft reports their fiscal Q2 results tonight after the close, the options market is implying a one day move of about 2.5% which is greater than the 4 qtr avg of only about 1.25%. The …
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Last night AMD reported Q2 guidance that was worse than expected, and guided down the current quarter. The shares are down 18%. This price action is fairly dramatic in its own right, but even more …
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Last night INTC pre-announced higher than expected Q2 revenues with a slight bump to margins: As a result of stronger than expected demand for business PCs, Intel Corporation now expects second-quarter revenue to be $13.7 …
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Back in March we took a short term bullish view on shares of AMD and saw a 9% gain in a matter of weeks as the stock caught a bid into quarter end and we …
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Two weeks ago when AMD was $3.73 I bought some stock as a trade with the thought that the stock would make a run, as it has two times in the last six months, filling …
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This past Monday, some sizable put activity in AMD caught my eye. A buyer paid .69 for 15,000 July 4 puts when the stock was 3.64 (.36 in the money at the time). The premium …
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Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Let Apple Monitor my Body Apple has an annoying habit of bragging about new product releases as if they were the first company in the world to …
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Event: DAL reports its Q4 earnings on Tuesday before the open. The options market is implying about a 5% one day move, which is above both the 4 qtr avg of about 4.5% and the …
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