November 21, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

On Friday we detailed a bearish near term set up in shares of Starbucks (SBUX – Bean Counting) for the following reasons: its year to date relative under-performance to broad market and peers. technical set …

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November 18, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

On November 3rd, Starbucks (SBUX) issued fQ4 results that were better than expected, despite U.S. same-store sales missing expectations for the fourth consecutive quarter (4% vs 4.8%), with CEO Howard Schultz citing a “high degree of …

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September 16, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

I’m literally dumbfounded by Apple’s (AAPL) 12% gains from Monday’s lows on seemingly no new news.  Sentiment around their new products was low, and now they are high. I thought the stock was a sale …

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July 21, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Event: Starbucks reports fiscal Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 4% one day move tomorrow, which is rich to the 4 qtr average of only 1.5%, and the …

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July 12, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

My CNBC’s Options Action co-panelist and technician at Cornerstone Macro Research Carter Worth has had a bearish slant towards U.S. stocks for some time now, like myself. Yesterday, he succinctly laid out why yesterday’s new all …

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June 20, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Shares of Starbucks (SBUX) have under-performed in 2016, down about 7.5%, and down about 13% from their 52 week (and all time highs) made in October of 2015. The stock is merely taking a breather …

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April 22, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Q1 earnings season is off to a sort of meh start. Last week, bank stocks rallied off of very low expectations, poor relative performance and results that were good enough to cause a bit of …

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