January 24, 2017 by Dan • FREE ACCESS

Yesterday in this space we discussed the illusion of massive equity market gains since the Nov 8th election (Alternative Tracks). The reality is that the S&P 500 (SPX) is up a mere 3.5% from the …

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October 17, 2016 by riskreversal • Big Printin'

Earlier we highlighted the weakness of a handful of consumer discretionary stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (here): Some of the worst performing stocks in 2016 in the Dow Jones Industrial Average are not …

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March 14, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

GLD – when the etf that tracks the price of gold was $118.76, a trader rolled up and out a bullish view, selling to close 25,000 April 114 calls at 5.70, and buying to open …

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January 29, 2016 by CC • Trade Updates

We’ve been pretty thematic in our trading the past few months on RiskReversal. Hedge your portfolio (e.g. IWM, SPY, QQQ), avoid anything with strong dollar and international exposure and hide out in treasuries (e.g. TLT), …

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January 11, 2016 by Dan • Commentary

Looks like we were not the only ones adjusting a bearish leaning position in the consumer discretionary etf, XLY today (read ours here). Shortly before 3pm when the XLY was $73.70 a trader rolled down …

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January 6, 2016 by Dan • Trade Ideas

To state the obvious, positive returns in U.S. equity markets were hard to come by unless you were invested in a couple dozen large cap growth stocks. And from a trading perspective it was a fool’s …

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August 17, 2015 by CC • Commentary

Event: Tomorrow before the open The Home Depot (HD) will report Q2 results. The options market is implying a 3.3% one day move, which is in line with the 4 qtr avg move. With the …

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