October 21, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Updates

Hop into the Way Back Machine all the way to May 17th. On that day we wrote a post looking at Paypal (PYPL) into their first analyst day as an independent stock, following its 2015 …

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October 5, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money we discussed Facebook’s launch of their Marketplace feature, think internal Ebay: As Julia Boorstin reported, the Marketplace had a gaff at launch by not having a filter set for …

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May 17, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: PayPal (PYPL) will hold their first analyst day as a separate company tomorrow at their headquarters in San Jose, California.  The options market is implying about a 3% move in the stock between now …

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November 15, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Here is a quick recap of trades that we initiated, closed, or debated in the week that was Nov 9th to Nov 13th: Monday Nov 9th: Trade Idea – $XLU: Utility Playa *Trade: XLU ($42.25) Buy …

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November 13, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Earlier in the MorningWord (You’ve Got Money), I offered a few thoughts on the current landscape on the electronics payment landscape after news on Wednesday that Apple (AAPL) is speaking with banks to create a peer to …

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November 13, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

After years of hype, mobile electronic payments, both consumer and peer to peer, have finally become a disruptive trend. And it suddenly seems there are hundreds of fintech startups as well as established tech behomeths …

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September 11, 2015 by CC • Commentary

A few weeks ago we took a look at PayPal (PYPL) following its tax free spin from eBay (EBAY), read here. Our thoughts on valuation and competition from Aug 20th: In PYPL’s Q2, (per the …

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