Yesterday we previewed Apple’s (AAPL) fiscal 4Q earnings and offered some trade ideas for those with existing positioning or a directional inclination into the print. We now want to recap those ideas and discuss how they fared and how …
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Event: Texas Instruments (TXN) reports Q3 results tonight after the bell. The options market is implying about a 4% one day post earnings move, which is essentially in line with the 4 qtr avg one …
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Event: Tesla (TSLA) reports Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 6% one day post earnings move, which is essentially in line with their 4 qtr average one day …
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Earlier we previewed Apple’s (AAPL) fiscal 4Q earnings, due after the bell. Now we’want to detail a few options strategies for existing holders, and one for those looking for defined risk long exposure. First we want to detail a …
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Remember the Taper Tantrum in 2013? Seems like a distant memory. But the U.S. Fed floated the trial balloon that they would start tapering bond purchases from their QE highs of about $85 billion a …
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On October 10th we looked at Procter & Gamble (PG), very near 52 week highs, considering the recent rise in the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields into an increasingly likely rate increase at the FOMC’s Dec …
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Biotech stocks have been a disaster so far in 2016, with Nasdaq Biotech etf IBB down 20% ytd, and down 34% from its all time highs (in August 2015), and S&P Biotech etf XBI down …
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Hop into the Way Back Machine all the way to May 17th. On that day we wrote a post looking at Paypal (PYPL) into their first analyst day as an independent stock, following its 2015 …
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Event: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reports Q3 results tonight after the close. The options market is implying about a 11% one day post earnings move tomorrow. The 10 year average one day post earnings move …
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Three weeks ago we made the case that before this market rally is all said and done, there is a very strong likelihood that shares of Microsoft (MSFT) will make a new all time high: …
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