Heading into their Q1 results is morning, Kohl’s (KSS) was up 22% on the year, up 46% from its 52 week lows, and only down about 6% from the all time highs made in early April. The …
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We have spent some time in this space debating the potential benefits of lower oil for the U.S. consumer and what it means for corporate profits in an environment where the dollar has surged. Yesterday’s …
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Below is a list of some of the most interesting single stock options activity from today’s trading session: 1. S & TMUS: Lots of headlines over the past week as to whether or not a …
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Below is a list of some of the most interesting single stock options activity from today’s trading session: 1. TWTR – in front of the company’s first quarterly report options activity was fairly brisk with …
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Despite the overnight weakness in Asia, our equity markets found their footing right out of the gates after yesterday’s 2% drubbing. Below is a list of some untied single stock options trades that caught our …
Continue readingA weakening U.S. consumer has been a theme with us for months, and we have routinely made the point that the strong performance of the XRT and the XLY have masked some fairly dismal single …
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MorningWord 10/9/13: Despite some fairly high profile Q2 earnings misses from retailers in August (COH, M, RL, TGT & WMT) the XRT and the XLY nearly matched and made new all-time highs respectively with …
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Q2 earnings season as a whole was a fairly mixed bag, with the latter part marred by downbeat results and visibility from consumer facing companies like ANF, COH, RL, M, TGT & PNRA, which caused …
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1. JCP – there was a buyer of at least 8000 Feb08 weekly straddles for $1.24 with stock trading $19.12. Stock quickly went up over $20. IV30 is up 4.5%. Stock had been down on …
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Here’s a preview of what I’ll be talking about on Options Action tonight on CNBC at 5pm: Event: RL reports their Q3 Wednesday Oct 31st before the open. The options market is implying about a 6% move (based …
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