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• Bye Bye Best Buy – Can the S&P Hold When Retail Folds?

  

  Holiday sales were down 0.9% with revenue down 2.6% to $11.45Bn, partially saved by a 23.5% rise in on-line sales. We had picked BBY last November at our PSW La... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Balls to the Wall Wednesday – The Bull is Back!

  

  Sure it's low volume (see Dave Fry's SPY chart), but who cares? TSLA jumps 16% in a day, gaining $3Bn in market cap in 5 hours and they tack on another $1Bn... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Call ‘Fly On Anadarko

  It looks like the trader established a bullish call butterfly spread that makes maximum possible profits in the event that APC shares rally more than 17% to... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Testy Tuesday – Letting off Steam Or Sending a Warning?

  

  It was fun because we were short-term bearish and we finally got a bit of a sell-off. During yesterday's live Webcast, in fact, we had just shorted the Russell... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Sizable Three-Legged Options Play Trades On Juniper

  It looks like one trader sold 10,000 of the Jan ’15 $20 puts at a premium of $1.20 apiece to partially offset the cost of buying a 10,000-lot Jan ’15 $25/$35... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Merger Monday – Suntory Buys Beam for 25% Premium ($16Bn)

  

  They make investors think everything is undervalued in a sector when one company gets bought for high cash premiums and BEAM (Jim Beam) is one of those companie... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Sector Detector: Investors Watch for January Effect as Earnings Season Gets...

  

  The first full week of the New Year was uneventful. There seems to be some trepidation among U.S. equity investors after such a strong finish to 2013. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Non-Farm Friday – To Work Or Not to Work, That is the Economic Question

  

  I don't think it's going to matter, whether or not we employed more or less than the expected 200,000 new people in December doesn't matter as much as what we... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• UAL Call Options Active As Shares Hit Record High

  Trading in UAL call options expiring this month and next suggests some traders may be positioning for the price of the underlying to continue to climb in the... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Thursday Thrust – Futures Pop Back to Highs BUT We Smell Last Gasp

  

  Well, according to the AAII Bull-Bear Sentiment Survey, anyway. In the entire 23-year history of this survey, there have never been more bulls or less bears and... Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Options Strategy Eyes Further Upside In Yelp

  It looks like one trader sold 3,343 of the May $60 puts at a premium of $4.34 apiece in order to partially offset the cost of buying a 3,343-lot May $85/$105... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Will We Hold It Wednesday – S&P 1,825 Edition

  

  That's the deal today as we wait for the Fed minutes at 2pm. We already had the Fed statement back on December 17th, when the Fed announced a very light... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Options Volume Pops On NBIX As Shares Hit Highest Since ’06

  Options volume on NBIX is well above typical levels today, with around 9,000 contracts in play as of 11:30 a.m. EST versus the stock’s average daily volume of... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Trending Tuesday – Still Going Up?

  

  As you can see from Doug Short's S P chart, we're having a modest pullback on increasing volume as things return to "normal" following the holidays. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• What the Market Wants: Will 2014 Resume Last Year's Growth?

  

  Despite a positive Factory Orders report of 1.8% compared to an expected 1.6% and last month’s drop of 0.5%, the market opened up briefly; however, light... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Twitter Call Spread Trades Amid Dip In Share Price

  Activity in the 21 Feb ’14 expiry call options caught our attention today, with the $75/$85 call spread trading more than 14,000 times within the first two hour... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Monday Musings – It’s Still the Economy, Stupid

  

  That thing is that the economy is the number one issue facing our nation. Just lik it was when Clinton first said it in 1992, when he first used the phrase in... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Sector Detector: Stocks Close out a Banner Year. Where to Invest Now?

  

  With plenty of wind in their sails, bulls coasted comfortably into year-end to close out 2013 with a stellar performance, as Santa made his widely-expected... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• Friday Already? 2014 Off to an Exciting Start

  

  Those 10 Oil Futures (/CL) contracts I mentioned as a short in yesterday's morning post gained another $23,000 during the day as oil plunged back to $95.50 – no... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS

• 2013+1 – What a Difference a Year Makes and 3 New Trade Ideas to Get Started!

  

  We ended 2013 with a bang. As you can see from Dave Fry's SPY chart, the last hour was all window-dressing but we couldn't quite get to 1,850 on the S P, closin... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS