December 7, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

The retail sector is one of the best performing since the early hours of Nov 9th following the surprise election results, with the XRT (the S&P retail etf up nearly 15%, very near 52 week …

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December 1, 2016 by riskreversal • Education

Here are some apparently directional options trades that caught our attention in today’s trading: GLD: the shiny metal has sat out the explosion in metal and mining stocks over the last month or so, with …

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November 28, 2016 by riskreversal • Chart of the Day

Shares of Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD) are down 23% from their 52 week and all time highs made in late September, and down 16% on the year.  After a nearly 7 month consolidation between the low $120s …

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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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November 14, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Updates

On Nov 9th, the day after the US presidential election it was clear that some big funds got caught flat footed and a massive rotation within equities was upon us. While U.S. stocks have been …

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September 29, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Costco (COST) will report fiscal Q4 results tonight after the close.  The options market is implying about a 3% move tomorrow in either direction. That’s rich to the 4 qtr average one day post earnings …

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August 19, 2016 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Despite mounting pressures, both internally and externally, for a divided FOMC (as evidenced by the July minutes) to raise short term interest rates for only the second time since June 2006, the yield in the …

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