Alright, maybe it’s starting to sound like the boy who cried wolf, or merely my fairly convicted view that the concentration in the Nasdaq among a handful of stocks will eventually be the stock market’s …
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Here was some apparently untied directional options activity that caught my eye in today’s trading: MET: Shares of the life insurer saw a sharp intra-day reversal after initial opening down at a one month low …
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The other day I updated with some thoughts on our VIX trade and what polls to watch for further spikes in volatility into the election. Today I want to update that trade to take off …
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Since reporting calendar Q3 results in the last week or so, Apple (AAPL), Alphabet (GOOGL), Amazon.com (AMZN) and Facebook (FB), the stocks have lost between 5 and 10%. That is equal to nearly $200 billion in …
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Last Friday and then again yesterday we previewed Facebook’s (FB) Q3 results. We also detailed some trade ideas for those long the stock or those inclined to initiate a new long position into the print, but with …
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Yesterday the S&P 500 (SPX) did something it has not done since October 2008 when global markets were in the throes of the worst economic and market crisis since the Great Depression, it closed down …
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Here is some apparently untied directional options activity that caught my eye in today’s trading: XRT: the S&P retail etf is down about 10% from its August highs, one of the worst performing S&P sectors …
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Event: Facebook (FB) reports Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 6% one day post earnings move tomorrow, which is shy of the average over the last 4 quarters …
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Yesterday we previewed of Alibaba’s Q3 results (released this morning). The stock is initially opened higher after the company beat expectations: Alibaba posted earnings of 5.26 yuan per share, up from 3.61 yuan a share …
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I’d love to tell you that my bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 22 year old self had a sense how big this internet thing was going to be big upon my graduation from the University of Pennsylvania …
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