Web Extra: Stocks Rally After Hours and Answering Viewer Questions
Today, Mikes does a quick touch on after-hours earnings in $PYPL $QCOM and $FB along with a conversation about call-spread risk reversals.
Web Extra: Is it too late to hedge?
Mike discusses various strategies using Index or Index ETF options to hedge a portfolio.
Web Extra: Is Energy Oversold?
Energy has been hard hit hard lately, and today was particularly painful. But Chris Verrone of Strategas was on CNBC’s Fast Money today, suggesting that the sector may be slightly…
Mastercard: MA
Mastercard is a company we had discussed several times on these pages. It is also a stock that has frustrated us as of late. This article is for paid members…
GLD: What to do about Gold?
Precious metals investors, particularly those holding onto gold, find themselves in a tough spot. This predicament is not of their making. On the contrary, This article is for paid members…
What’s in the Box? BOX
BOX is a cloud company that has been around for some time. Its primary function is cloud storage which allows people to save and backup files to a secure location.…
Web Extra: Vertical Spreads: Credit? or Debit? How Technicals Can Inform Your Decision
@CarterBWorth made a prescient bullish call on $NFLX before it broke out in Q3 of 2021. In April 2022, after a disastrous Netflix earnings call, I’ll discuss what he thinks…
Small Caps Russell 2000 / IWM
The Options Action gang took a look at the small-cap stocks on Friday's show. More importantly, they are starting to take the bear market we have been talking about on…
Web Extra: Alcoa Earnings and Viewer Questions Provide a Teaching Moment
We often discuss unusual options flows covering as many as ten different securities in less than 10 minutes. Today we’re only talking about one security. That company is Alcoa, a…
Bitcoin Update
Markets rarely cooperate. Such is the case with Bitcoin. This digital asset is frustrating both the bulls and the bears. But if we had to pick a side, we think…
Splunk: SPLK
Splunk is a company we have not discussed in the past. But since it is a favorite of the "innovation" investor, we thought a little discussion was in order. This…
US Dollar: UUP
It has been quite some time since we discussed the US Dollar. This delay is not an oversight. We did not have a clear idea of where the Dollar was…