January 19, 2017 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Yesterday shares of Target (TGT) declined 5.5% on a disappointing Q4: I think Jeff Macke’s tweet speaks to the magnitude of the pre-announcement and the sell-off: $TGT guides lower 2mo 2 days after guiding higher. Ecommerce …

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January 17, 2017 by Mike Khouw • Trade Ideas

After a 2 Years of Consolidation, It’s time to put Target Corp. (TGT) in Your Sights Target Corp. (TGT) is a very large general merchandise retailer many of us visit from time to time to …

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September 29, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Earlier today I had some thoughts on Costco (COST) into tonight’s earnings results (MorningWord 9/29/16: COST’$ Cut).  The crux of it is becoming painfully obvious, Amazon.com (AMZN) is eating brick and mortar retail’s lunch quarter …

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August 8, 2016 by Dan • Trade Updates

As June ended we looked around at some of the popular trades at the time (dividend yield, staples, utilities) and tried to apply that to some names that perhaps had been overlooked. Target fit the …

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June 28, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Earlier I offered some updated thoughts on the current investment environment (MorningWord 6/28/16: Eyes Wide Shut). In summary, I’m less than sanguine for U.S. stocks. That has been my view since the start of 2015. …

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March 2, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Event: Costco reports fiscal Q2 results after the close. The options market is implying a 4% one day move, which is more than double the 4 qtr average of a little less than 2% and …

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November 17, 2015 by Dan • Commentary

Event: Target (TGT) reports Q3 results tomorrow before the open. The options market is implying about a 5.5% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr avg of only 2.25% and the 10 …

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