It’s a scary time to be committing new capital to equities. We’ve been very clear about the caution that investors should be showing in this environment. We detailed tactical portfolio hedges right before the New …
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Last week (below) I made the case why Verizon (VZ), despite the wireless data pricing headwinds it faces, could be an attractive place to park some cash. The thought is based on the stock’s 5% …
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On Monday’s Fast Money on CNBC you might have missed my Final Trade because my 10 year old daughter Ellie kind of stole the show: Once you get through Ellie hamming it up you see …
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Last night on CNBC’s Fast Money Carter Worth of Cornerstone Research laid out the case for buying the “Dogs of the Dow”. The strategy entails buying the worst performing stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial …
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Here is some generally directional, untied options activity that caught my eye during Monday’s trading: 1. CSX – yesterday in this space we highlighted some call activity in the rail: CSX – after reporting Q1 results …
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I know it seems like a distant memory, but there was a time in the last year that most market participants were fairly well convinced that rates were going up. As many remember, 2013 ended …
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New all-time high in the S&P 500, so no surprise that calls were much more active than puts across single stocks. Volumes were not unusually high, but here were the standouts: 1. KMI – Dan wrote …
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Stock volumes picked up yesterday on the move lower (though options volume still subdued). The S&P 500 index remained above its 50 day moving average, which is now around 1868. 1. VIX – VIX expiration for May …
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This past week saw its share of headlines from hedge fund honchos regarding investment themes at both an industry conference in Las Vegas and the release of Q1 13F filings yesterday showing new and altered …
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On this past Friday’s close the short leg of my XLK call calendar expired worthless, doing what it was intended to do, help finance owning the longer dated call. Now I am going to play …
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