There are few trading situations that make even the most experienced market participants physically ill like being caught on the wrong side of a short squeeze. If you trade from the short side, it has …
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YELP is a stock that we have loved to hate in 2014. After being up 60% on the year at one point in early March, at one point last week it had been cut in …
Continue readingThe tech world is abuzz with rumors that Apple is preparing to make their largest acquisition to date by paying a reported $3.2 billion for Beats by Dr. Dre, a headphone company that has a …
Continue readingYesterday we put on a bearish play in Zillow which was a little off our recent script of going after the momentum names that had already showed signs of breaking. Z has actually been bucking …
Continue readingQ1 earnings season has been a bit of a mixed bad so far. I can’t say that the single stock volatility has been greater than some recent earnings seasons over the last year, but anecdotally …
Continue readingThe secular theme of Chinese internet continues to be at the top of our board for the next few years. We think this story has only just begun, even after all of the excitement in …
Continue readingOne of the worst performing stocks on my board yesterday was QIHU, down 9.5%. The company actually beat both earnings and revenues estimates, but expectations among traders was higher still. Guidance was actually better than …
Continue readingMorningWord 11/19/13: At RiskReversal we have been on the record of late (MorningWord 11/4/13: There Is A Bubble Forming In Calling A Stock Market Bubble) that the current environment does not feel like the prior …
Continue readingWe’ve received a number of questions about Twitter options over the last week. Options on TWTR will start trading today on weekly and monthly maturities. A few highlights from Greg Bender of Bloomberg in a …
Continue readingWe posted our thoughts about YELP in our CotD post on Thursday, where we noted its first convincing break of the 50 day moving average in many months: YELP is another huge momentum winner in …
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