Walgreen’s dropped its plans for a potential tax inversion last week, and investors were quite disappointed judging by the huge gap lower on Thursday morning: The gap below the 200 day moving average was WAG’s first …
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Micron reports earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 7.5% move, which would put the stock around $34.25 to the upside or $29.75 to the downside if the stock moved …
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Here is a quick recap of all of the trades that we initiated, closed, managed or expired in the week that was Jan 6th – Jan 10th:
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In early November we added GLW to our investment portfolio. Here was the original entry: TRADE: Bought GLW for $16.47 About a month later after 5% or so gains in the stock we decided to …
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Verizon’s monster deal to buy the rest of Verizon Wireless from Vodafone is one of the largest acquisitions in the past 10 years. The potential $130 billion deal is about half cash and half stock. …
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We got a question from a reader yesterday who owns ORCL shares, but is worried now that the stock has filled in most of the gap from its Q4 earnings disappointment in late June, that …
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Another quiet day in the indices, with earnings related flow dominating the options market. BAC – Stock broke through 14, at its highest level since early 2011. More than 800k calls traded (over 1m options total), …
Continue readingTrade Update May 15th, 2013 at 1pm: A little more than 2 weeks ago I bought the CSCO at the money straddle when the stock was essentially in the same spot to where it is …
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For those of us who are a bit skeptical of committing new capital to equities, particularly in the U.S., we find ourselves in a bit of a tight spot from a trading perspective in the current environment as major indices once …
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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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