With retail stocks getting slammed today as result of poor results and guidance from Macy’s (M) I wanted to take the opportunity to update a bearish options trade detail here, and discussed on CNBC’s Options Action this …
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Earlier, we posted an update our existing XRT trader (here), but since I’ll be discussing this trade on CNBC’s Options Action tonight I want to have a separate post isolating the new strikes without the profits …
Continue readingWhile about 70% of S&P 500 companies having reported Q1 earnings, the balance of high profile names yet to report will be heavily dominated by retailers like Costco (COST), The Home Depot (HD), Lowe’s (LOW), …
Continue readingAs 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 …
Continue readingYou know the drill, just as I described in my prior post on XLB, I was early, and early equals wrong, but I remain convicted and want to roll out some recently placed bearish views. …
Continue readingFor the better part of the last 6 months, investors have been fairly clueless as to where to park cash with the prospects of a reasonable risk adjusted return. The global volatility in credit, currencies, commodities …
Continue readingRetail stocks, badly beaten up last year are showing fairly decent relative strength so far in 2016, with the XRT, the S&P Retail etf down only 2.5% vs the S&P 500 (SPX) down 5.5% on …
Continue readingYou 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 …
Continue readingRetail earnings for the holiday period have gotten underway in earnest this week, which for the most part were disappointing when you consider Walmart’s (WMT) guide down for the current year and Nordstrom’s (JWN) disaster this morning. …
Continue readingEvent: The Home Depot (HD) reports Q3 results tomorrow before the opening. The options market is implying about a 3.5% one day move, which is rich to the 4 qtr avg move of about 2.6%. …
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