The Week Ahead | 12/21/2020
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) had their final meeting and decisions of this year. The federal funds rate was kept in the range of 0.00% and 0.25%. There was…
IYT: Transportation Stocks
The gang on options action took a swing at the transportation stocks this past Friday. This part of the market is often a forgotten sector as it does not have…
eBay
It is getting harder and harder to find reasonably priced opportunities in the online retail space. The reason is apparent, of course. Wall Street has done what they always do.…
NFLX: What’s Next for Netflix?
Netflix continues to be a wall street darling, but lately, it has been ignored, and for good reason. There is a new sheriff in town, Disney. Disney just told the…
Options Expiration
Standard monthly options are set to expire this Friday. We have 10 open trade suggestions with at least one leg of the trade structure coming due at the end of…
The Week Ahead | 12/14/2020
Over the past week the Covid 19 Vaccine seems to be coming to the market so to speak. This news ha led to a rotation in the markets. The Mega…
The World’s Largest IPOs Adjusted For Inflation
We are back in IPO craze mode once again. Is this sign markets are getting close to a top in equity prices? History suggests yes, but the precise top is…
BLK: Blackrock
An interesting conversation on OptionsAction occurred on Friday, December 11. Carter Braxton Worth has tipped his hand. We think he might be turning from bull to bear. How so? We…
DISCA: Discovery Communications
The media space is, at least from our perspective, an underappreciated sector in the stock market. But so are many other no-growth sectors of the economy/stock market. In a world…
5 Big Picture Trends Being Accelerated by the Pandemic
It’s been said that COVID-19 has hit fast forward on several trends, from e-commerce to workplace culture. Today, we’ll highlight five of these accelerating trends.
MIK: Michaels Companies
Michaels Companies is an off-the-run retailer that is doing much better than the average investor might expect. In one sense, it is not a purveyor of critical products. But to…
XOM: Exxon Mobile
We have been decidedly neutral to somewhat bearish on the price of oil for the past year. The SARS-Cov-2 lockdown meant people did not leave their homes to go to…