Trading Notes

Some of you may have seen my post earlier this week regarding a new challenge for 2020 involving flipping option contracts intraday as a way to add daily capital gains without any overnight exposure. The experiment involves roughly $5000 capital outlay positions and...

Two of my biggest passions are sports and the stock market.  Growing up playing sports taught me a number of life lessons and many that I apply to investing in the markets.  Competitiveness is important, such a strong desire to win that you are willing to work long...

Thought I would put together a quick post about the process I use to target swing-trades in options.  Below is the trade send on 5-29. Nike (NKE) fulfilled most of the criteria I look for including: High Quality name with strong operations (see recent earnings...

I have covered in depth previously the rationale and approach to utilizing options activity as the best way of stock discovery, and then applying technical and fundamental analysis to the names.  In this post I want to simply show how effective the approach is after...

On March 20th, 2016 Sherwin Williams (SHW) announced an $11.3B deal for Valspar (VAL) at $113/share cash with Valspar having closed at $83.83. VAL was a name consistently highlighted to clients with unusual options activity. Key Takeaways: Multiple Days of ITM and OTM...

Time Warner (TWX) shares have been fairly quiet with many of the top media names like Disney (DIS) and CBS Corp (CBS) rallying sharply to new highs.  It’s a name worth a look at this level looking forward the next 6 months, and will break it down below on each degree...

Similar to the same types that like to say Amazon.com (AMZN) is rich on valuation, the same is said about Salesforce.com (CRM), and usually the same indicator is used to form this opinion, the P/E ratio.Salesforce.com (CRM) trades 74X forward earnings so it...