On Friday, Q4 earnings releases from three large moneycenter banks, Bank of America (BAC), JP Morgan (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC) officially ushered in earnings season, one that will be of particular interest to investors …
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U.S. Bank earnings start off with a bang tomorrow morning with Bank of America (BAC), JP Morgan (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC). The three combined make up about 27% of the of the weight of …
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On Friday’s Options Action on CNBC we discussed the out-performance in bank stocks since the presidential election in early November, and the possibilities for a pullback in bank stocks following Q4 earnings results and Q1 …
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Yesterday in this space we highlighted some unusual long dated upside call buying in Deutsche Bank (DB): Regular readers know that we do NOT place too much emphasis on unusual options activity, as it is …
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Here is some apparently untied directional options trades that caught our attention in this morning’s trading:
Continue readingCurrent polls point to Hillary Clinton being sworn in as our next President of the United States on January 20th. As far as what that means for policy, Clinton is a typical left of center …
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Event: Citigroup (C) is scheduled to report its Q3 results Friday before the open. The options market is implying about a 3% one day move in either direction, which is a tad higher than the …
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Q3 earnings season kicks off next week. The main event will come Friday morning with earnings from Citibank (C), JP Morgan (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC), three stocks that make up nearly 25% of the …
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We use this post to highlight unusual activity, especially what we perceive to be directional. We don’t suggest that this activity can be useful in making any investment/trading decisions about the underlying (i.e. blindly following …
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Here is some untied apparently directional options activity that caught my eye in today’s trading: INTC: yesterday in this post I highlighted some out of the money call buying in November expiration (here), and today …
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