Trade Updates

Last week, we previewed MSFT earnings (announced after the close last night). We detailed two trade ideas, one bullish and the other a bearish/hedge. With the stock slightly higher from entry, and down barely on …

Yesterday we previewed Visa (V) earnings and detailed a mildly bullish spread, looking for the stock to go higher, but find some resistance at 100. Following the report the stock did just that, now trading …

U.S. bank stocks get Q2 earnings season in full swing tomorrow with reports from Citigroup (C), JP Morgan (JPM) and Wells Fargo (WFC). The options market is implying the following one moves in either direction: …

On June 9th we took a look utilities etf (and bond proxy) XLU. At the time XLU was trading 53.55 following a bit of a breakdown. We felt the breakout was likely to fail and …

Yesterday we previewed Pepsi (PEP) earnings (that came out this morning) and detailed two trade ideas, one as a stock alternative the other as a hedge for longs. With the stock down a bit let’s …

About a month ago we wrote about Priceline, potential headwinds to Summer travel, and some longer term trends that could negatively affect the stock. At the time we detailed a way to dip a toe …

Tesla stock has been one of the great stories of the past year, doubling in price since the Fall of 2016. As we get closer to initial delivery of their first mass market (priced) car, …

In late May we looked at Amazon (AMZN) as the stock neared the psychologically important (and media hyped) level of 1000. For those that were long AMZN into that milestone, it made sense to look …

A month ago we looked at NKE stock and though found it to be a decent candidate for a turnoround into last night’s earnings. We detailed a trade that sold near term calls to finance …

A little over a month ago we took a look at one of the best performing sectors the past 2 years, semiconductors. We detailed a trade idea in the etf SMH to position for a …