ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
It had to be too good to be true – Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg able to “motivate” his stock upward and out from the ashes of a post-IPO disaster. On Monday, September 25th, FB got hit by a bearish Barron’s article pegging Facebook’s value at $15/share. The stock subsequently crumbled under the pressure to … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 30, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) When I wrote “Wide Options Skew Heightens Risks Of Trading Yelp.com Lockup Expiration,” my main point was that Yelp.com (YELP) put options seemed too expensive to take the risk of playing … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 27, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) Yelp.com (YELP) has a float of 16.59M shares and shares outstanding of 61.2M. According to Eric Savitz, 52.7M shares (Class B) are available to start trading on August 29th as Yelp’s … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 14, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) Netflix (NFLX) is a classic bear/bull battleground stock. Depending on your mood, you can be convinced by the bullish or the bearish arguments. {snip} In the near-term, I think the biggest … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on August 11, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) Wednesday, August 8th was a rough day for priceline.com (PCLN). The company significantly pulled back current quarter revenue and earnings guidance based on expectations for poor performance in Europe: {snip} Moreover, … Read more