Event: QCOM reports its fiscal Q1 earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 4% one day move, which is in line with the 4 qtr average of about 4.15%, and the …
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Event: YHOO reports its Q4 earnings today after the close. The options market is implying about a 5.25% one day move, which is above both the 4 qtr average of about 3.75%, and the 8 …
Continue readingEarlier in the fall there seemed to be a little bubble forming in the financial press about the need to label the stock market, or any market for risk assets a “bubble”. Back in …
Continue readingMorningWord 12/19/13: Yesterday’s price action was obviously pretty extraordinary. In 2 hours, U.S. equities got back all that they had lost in the previous 2 weeks. Investors have spoken, “DecTaper” was absorbed and then some! …
Continue readingLast Wednesday, Standard & Poors announced that FB was going to be added to the S&P 100 & 500 index on this Friday’s close when the index does their annual year end re-weighting. The …
Continue readingMorningWord 11/18/13: By all accounts Facebook put up a big Q3 when they reported on Oct. 30th. Upside in daily active users, mobile usage and mobile revenues nearing 50%, operating margins jumping 7% year over …
Continue readingEvent: YHOO reports its fiscal Q3 earnings on Tuesday, Oct. 15th after the close. The options market is implying about a 5.25% one day move, which is above both the 4 qtr avg of about …
Continue readingFollowing Ballmer’s resignation, we wanted to for a slight pullback in MSFT stock. The pullback was more than we bargained for, and so we’ve been in premium recovery mode ever since. We’ve been patient the …
Continue readingSingle stock options blocks ruled the unusual activity on what was a volatile session in the morning, only to spend the afternoon praying for the weekend to come. AAPL: the three most actively traded single …
Continue readingSingle stocks ruled the large options block trades today, on what was a generally sideways day. JCP : stock is up more than 10% this week, the options flow has been fairly mixed but heavy. In …
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