Another day, another proposed mega-deal. M&A is the big story of this stage of the bull run. Market participants became too familiar with special dividends in 2013, and corporate financiers moved towards massively increasing share buybacks …
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“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of …
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Welcome to the New Year. If you read this space regularly then you like trading, and you use a portion of your risk capital to take advantage of price volatility that creates short term trading opportunities. You also …
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I put on a bearish FB trade about a week ago, and the stock has quickly moved down to near my $70 put strike, much more quickly than I had expected. Since my $70 put …
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One aspect of the FB story recently that has gotten very little press is the potential impact of the newly awarded WhatsApp shares on FB stock. From this morning’s Notable Options Activity post: Facebook closed …
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Creative destruction is still alive and well in the global economy. In fact, a novel idea can spread much more quickly in the internet age, disrupting entire industries over the course of just a few …
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Event: FB reports its Q2 earnings tomorrow after the close. The options market is implying about a 7.25% one day move, which is below both the 4 quarter average of 11.5% and the 8 quarter average …
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Event: GM reports its Q4 earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 4% one day move, which is above the 4 quarter average of around 2.5%, but below the 8 quarter …
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Event: TWTR reports its Q4 earnings today after the close, its first earnings report since going public in early November. The options market is implying about a 15% one day move, with no prior earnings history …
Continue readingEvent: FB reports its Q4 earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 10.5% one day move, which is slightly above the 4 quarter average of 9.5%, but below the 6 …
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