December 1, 2016 by riskreversal • Trade Ideas

I sincerely have no idea whether the rotation out of growth stocks, primarily Tech, and “yield-ers”… Consumer Staples, Telco and Utilities, into Banks, Industrials, Materials and Oil stocks is healthy with the broad market at all …

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September 27, 2016 by riskreversal • Big Printin'

Here are a few apparently directional options trades that caught my eye in today’s trading: XLK: There appeared to be an opening bullish bet in the S&P Technology Select etf when the etf was trading $47.70, …

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September 9, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Today’s price action may or may not be the start of a period of greater stock market volatility… I’ll let you know the answer soon enough 😉  But one thing is certain with today’s 2% …

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April 26, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

On Friday afternoon I previewed a bearish trade in shares of the Technology Select etf, the XLK (below), and discussed on Friday’s Options Action on CNBC: I think I was pretty clear that I wanted to …

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April 22, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

Earlier today I offered some thoughts on Q1 earnings season (read here), but the quick take-away as we finish the second full week of results is that stocks that had low expectations and had not …

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April 22, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Q1 earnings season is off to a sort of meh start. Last week, bank stocks rallied off of very low expectations, poor relative performance and results that were good enough to cause a bit of …

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