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 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
As the stock market gains new momentum, interesting charts are bound to appear everywhere. Priceline.com (PCLN) and Baidu (BIDU) are two of many with interesting post-earnings patterns. I covered the post-earnings set-up on priceline.com (PCLN) on August 11th (see “Priceline Not Likely to Recover Post-Earnings Losses In the Near-Term“). PCLN never closed below the critical … Read more
Wednesday 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. Europe represents 60% of PCLN’s revenues. It is a wonder that Europe is only just now dragging down results. In fact, PCLN spent almost three months of this … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on May 9, 2012 PRE-EARNINGS. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} In 2010, PCLN finally overtook Expedia (EXPE) in revenues. Click image for a larger view… Source: MSN Money {snip} With earnings coming up for PCLN, and given recent successes … Read more