ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on December 31, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) The concern for some solar investors going into December was that solar stocks were being unfairly sold off in sympathy with plunging oil prices. {snip} Source: FreeStockCharts.com In early December, I … Read more
As soon as I noticed the unusually high options trading activity in Conn’s Inc. (CONN), I triggered the trade I first discussed on December 12th. On the shortened trading day of Christmas Eve, January call options flew off the shelves in CONN. At the time of writing, the Jan $17.50s saw volume of 3,536 versus … Read more
$HLF catching my interest again as it rides into 50DMA resistance on heels of insider buying news. Shorts and put/call ratio at major highs — Dr. Duru (@DrDuru) November 26, 2014 Here are the follow-up details on this tweet from Wednesday, November 26th, 2014. Herbalife (HLF) has experienced a strong rally from recent lows. The … Read more
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ICPT) may indeed have the $5B blockbluster liver drug that RBC Capital Markets claimed in hiking its price target on the stock from $425 to $500. Gilead (GILD) may indeed buy out the company. Other analysts like Leerink Partners who raised its price target from $270 to $445, and Deutsche Bank who … Read more
At the time of writing, Windstream Holdings, Inc. (WIN) is surging 23.3% on news that the company received a favorable ruling from the IRS to convert to a REIT. From the press release: “Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a leading provider of advanced network communications, today announced plans to spin off certain telecommunications network assets into an … Read more
Just ahead of the start of the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), I wrote that I was preparing for a change in Apple’s trading patterns that would impact the Apple Trading Model (ATM). My main interest was in the coming 7-to-1 stock split and the potential for retail traders leaving options alone to trade directly … Read more
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on January 26, 2014. Click here to read the entire piece.) It has been eight months since I exited my long position in Herbalife (HLF), but the story continues to fascinate me. This time around, bad news came in rapid sequence for … Read more
Solar City has traded down double digits after each of its three earnings reports: 3/6/2013 -14.4% 5/13/2013 -12.4% 8/7/2013 -10.8% So of course this will happen a fourth time in a row, right? Well, not so fast. The first post-earnings decline simply reversed a pre-earnings run-up. The stock continued upward from there. The second post-earnings … Read more
In previous Apple chart reviews and updates, I have noted the apparent influence of the open interest put/call ratio on the overall bull/bear tone of Apple (AAPL). When the stock last bottomed – between September 16th and 17th – the open interest put/call ratio dropped to a level last seen since, you guessed it, AAPL’s … Read more