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Ford Rally Fuels Bullish Options Activity
Today’s tickers: F, EEM, DELL, UPS, IYR, JACK, WFC, CLX, SKX & LNC F - Ford Motor Co. – The automobile manufacturer’s shares are once again trading at a new 52-week high after rallying 4.00% today to $14.02. Upward movement in the price of the underlying stock inspired bullish options trading...
Prior Weekly Wrap-Up - February Expiration Day Special!
I didn’t get to do a wrap-up last week so we have a lot of trades to go over and, with expiration looming and the Fed tightening, I thought it would be good to just get the list out on Friday so we can adjust our rolls to March where neccessary (in bold under appropriate positions). In our Feb...
Bank of America Bears Buy Puts
Today’s tickers: BAC, PBR, F, FXI, NXY, KFT, DELL & HPQ BAC – Bank of America Corp. – Bearish option traders purchased put options on Bank of America today with shares of the firm trading 3% lower to $14.52. The number of put options purchased at the March $14 strike price surpassed existing...
Amazon Options in High Demand Following eBook Pricing Concession
Today’s tickers: AMZN, DELL, FXI, AET, XOM, LPX, CSCO, VCI & ITMN AMZN – Amazon.com, Inc. – E-tailer, Amazon.com, Inc., attracted two-way trading traffic in its options today after the firm gave in to publisher, Macmillan’s, demands to increase the price of digital books. Amazon.com’s concession...
Investor Plants WFC Short Straddle - Set to Bloom in April 2010
Today’s tickers: WFC, IYT, RYL, YHOO, XLE, MU, ADCT, KBH, DELL, NE & GPS WFC - Wells Fargo & Co. – Shares of the financial holding company surrendered 1.5% today to stand at $27.88. One investor initiated a sold straddle on WFC in the April 2010 contract. The trader sold 10,000 calls at the...
Friday: Dell Misses, Is Goldman Sachs Stupid or Evil?
How can a firm that never loses money be so totally wrong? Just this Monday, Goldman Sachs helped to gap the markets higher at the open in low-volume futures trading with the following pronouncement: "Goldman Sachs resumes coverage on Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and gave DELL a Buy rating at a...
Dell Acquisition Draws Criticism from Cramer
Yesterday, we speculated that perhaps Dell (DELL) had awarded Perot Systems (PER) with too hefty a valuation given shrinking revenue and its dependence on healthcare and government contracts (Did Dell Overpay for Perot Systems). CNBC’s Jim Cramer is in agreement with our assessment and this...
Did Dell Overpay for Perot Systems?
We do have a major acquisition on the books. Dell buying Perot Systems in an all-cash deal at a 68% premium over Friday, and that’s why Perot is shooting way up in so this, it’s fair to say, will be a huge gainer in today’s action. The way it will work out, again, $30 a share in cash, Perot, IT...
Motorola’s CLIQ Moving Them Forward
“If you look at Motorola, they have unrolled what I will say is the best named cell phone product ever, the CLIQ. 6% higher today, as they like the partnership with Google. However, there are some rumblings that their choice of a service provider, T-mobile, might hurt them there.” — CNBC’s The...
Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 3, Week 4
Year 3, Week 4 Major Position ChangesTo see historic weekly fund changes click here OR the label at the bottom of this entry entitled 'fund positions'.Cash: 65.8% (vs 58.6% last week)22 long bias: 12.2% (vs 17.4% last week)10 short bias: 22.0% (vs 24.0% last week) *includes long term puts32...
Dell Could Not Wait and Released Before the Bell
“Let’s look at these numbers because this is a bit of a surprise for this company to report just before, as you said, it took all of us off guard, but let’s get right to these numbers because that 24 cents a share that Dell is reporting does include pretax expenses of $87 million, or about 4...
Bull and Bear Energy Views Played Out in XLE Options
Today’s tickers: XLE, PFE, FRE, GLD, DELL, WLP, LMT & FNM XLE-Shares of the energy fund are up more than 1% to $52.92. We observed near-term bearishness and medium-term bullishness displayed through options on the ETF today. A ratio put spread initiated in the September contract indicates...
$5,000 Portfolio Update - Week 6 - $5,614
Well we’re back to cash… After getting off to a great start, up 12% in the first 3 weeks, we were lucky this week to get back to 12% after having a run of bad luck (or bad skill actually,as we went bearish too early and got punished for it). The goal of the $5,000 portfolio is to play around the...
$5,000 Portfolio Update - Week 3 - $5,598
We’re up 12%in3 weeks - not bad… The goal of the $5,000 portfolio is to play around the volatility of earnings and make no mistake, it’s a high-risk way to trade $5,000 and is meant to be a small portion of a large portfolio - not something you would want to do with your only $5,000. Of course...
$5,000 Portfolio Update - Day 9 - $5,424
We had a pretty good week with our new portfolio. The goal of the $5,000 portfolio is to play around the volatility of earnings and make no mistake, it’s a high-risk way to trade $5,000 and is meant to be a small portion of a large portfolio - not something you would want to do with your only...
