December 19, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

Gold and Gold mining stocks have been left out of the rally in just about every other risk asset on the planet since early November. While materials and mining stocks (measured by the XLB, the …

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October 13, 2016 by riskreversal • Big Printin'

The S&P 500 (SPX) clawed back a good bit of its early 1% losses by days end. One noticeable theme in today’s trading was options traders rolling existing positions: GS: bank stocks under-performed the broad market most of the day, with …

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April 6, 2016 by CC • Trade Updates

As Dan discussed earlier, U.S. stocks are are a fairly interesting spot, either back and filling a bit for a push to prior highs, or merely a series of lower highs that he believes to be …

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February 26, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

In case you missed it, I am not a buyer of stocks after the 8% rally in the S&P 500 (SPX) from its 52 week lows made Feb 11th.  Regular readers know that I feel quite …

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February 24, 2016 by CC • Trade Ideas

You may have noticed a trend in some of our trading lately, buying outright puts near what we feel are inflection points adter market bounces/rallies and not spreading them right away, but rather waiting to …

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February 19, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Earlier in my MorningWord (Seeing the Forest For the Trees) I tried to explain why the relative out-performance in defensive stocks and sectors like U.S. telco, utilities, consumer staples and sectors like energy and materials (that …

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