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- Early Earnings Warnings
- Dr. Duru submits: The next earnings season has not quite started yet, so it was probably easy to miss potentially indicative earnings warnings last week from two companies with combined market capitalization of just over $3 billion. Acuity Brands, Inc. AYI - an Atlanta-based company that designs, produces, and...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Bank of England Governor Mervyn King Confirms Weak Pound Strategy
- Dr. Duru submits: That rebalancing of the UK economy that I have been talking about for about 10 years, is very necessary. I think the fall in the exchange rate that we have seen will be helpful to that process but there’s no doubt that what we need to...
- External links 2009-09-24
- Options Traders in ReneSola Switch from Calls to Puts
- Dr. Duru submits: It seems traders in ReneSola SOL are moving one step too slowly. Options traders loaded up on Oct 7.5 calls earlier this month, only to be greeted with last week’s news that SOL’s revenues would come in a little light based on weaker than expected pricing....
- External links 2009-10-01
- Don't Assume Summer Will Always Bring Light Trading Volume
- Dr. Duru submits: We have all heard the claims that traders take the summer off, choosing to exchange their flashing computers for the calm, cool breezes of the beaches of the Hamptons, Martha’s Vineyard, etc… Yet, year after year, it has appeared to me that summers deliver plenty of...
- External links 2009-10-02
- WYNN Tumbles from Consolidation Pattern, Strangle Trade Remains Flatlined
- Dr. Duru submits: Schaeffer’s Investment Research reported Thursday that the Macau IPO for Wynn Resorts, Limited WYNN has been meet with heavy put buying the past two days. October 65 puts were popular Wednesday and the bearish trading has extended to the 60 strike today. The option strangle...
- External links 2009-10-02
- VXX: A Confirmed Dud
- Dr. Duru submits: Toward the end of September, I argued that VXX, the iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures, was making a bottom. While some kind of bottom has been confirmed with the spike in volatility last week, the VXX has proved to be a dud in following this...
- External links 2009-10-04
- Why Gold Remains My Favorite Investment
- Dr. Duru submits: Some fun facts: Gold GLD is up 18% for 2009. The S&P 500 is up 17% for 2009. The S&P 500 has essentially gone nowhere in “real gold” terms. The angriest bears out there might declare that the stock market rally is merely a...
- External links 2009-10-06
- Goldman Sachs: My Biggest Whiff of the Year
- Dr. Duru submits: Just thinking about writing this piece makes me cringe. After celebrating gold’s fresh 18-month highs yesterday, it occurred to me that I need to review my biggest whiff of this year: Goldman Sachs GS, affectionately called “Government Sachs.” I could just as easily call...
- External links 2009-10-07
- Fastenal Confirms Continuing Weakness in Non-Residential Construction
- Dr. Duru submits: Fastenal FAST is a $5.8B market cap industrial company that supplies components and parts for construction and manufacturing. FAST reported earnings yesterday that again confirmed a recurring theme of weakness in non-residential construction. This area has often been called “the next shoe to drop” that will...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Calm Returns to WYNN Shares
- Dr. Duru submits: It appears that this month’s WYNN strangle options play will fail. Relative calm has returned to WYNN (Wynn Resorts Ltd.) shares as the stock has remained flat since I launch the trade. There have been moments of action. WYNN dropped over 10% from recent highs to...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Do Not Expect an Encore from Intel
- Dr. Duru submits: Intel INTC delivered a stellar earnings report Tuesday evening with revenues and margins that beat expectations. However, do not expect an encore in the near-term because INTC’s historical performance suggests this may be as good as it gets for a while. Q3 revenues were...
- External links 2009-10-14
- Intel Continues Post-Earnings Slide
- Dr. Duru submits: The excitement over Intel’s Q3 earnings report see earnings call transcript has already worn off. After peaking as high as $21.60 or so in the immediate aftermath of the release after hours trading, Intel INTC dropped as low as $20 Friday. While this is just a...
- External links 2009-10-18
- Google?s Net Revenue Growth Rate Finally Increases
- Dr. Duru submits: Investors and traders were clearly impressed with Google’s GOOG third quarter earnings see earnings call transcript report on Friday sending the stock up 3.8% on 3 times average volume for the past three months. Google is now up a whopping 79% for the year and is...
- External links 2009-10-18
- Governor King Steps Out of the Way of the Pound
- Dr. Duru submits: Moments like these remind me how swiftly the tides can change in foreign exchange. The minutes from the Bank of England’s meeting in October showed that all members now support leaving quantitative easing at its current level of 175 billion pounds. This unified support...
- External links 2009-10-21
- Watch Trading Reaction to ReneSola?s News
- Dr. Duru submits: I added ReneSola SOL to my solar portfolio for the first time as a speculative play based on heavy call volume at the October 7.5 strike. I do not know what those call buyers expected, but certainly Wednesday’s news is typically not conducive to bullish feelings...
- External links 2009-09-23
- VXX Attempts Another Bottom
- Dr. Duru submits: The VXX is an ETF that offers exposure to a daily rolling long position in the first and second month VIX futures contracts and reflects the implied volatility of the S&P 500 index at various points along the volatility forward curve. (from Yahoo!Finance). by Dr....
- External links 2009-09-23
- FHA Commissioner Stevens Tells Us Not to Worry About FHA?s Cash Reserves
- Dr. Duru submits: The Washington Post issued an alarming article Friday titled “Housing Agency’s Cash Reserves Will Drop Below Requirement.” In what seems like yet another case of “here we go again,” Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Commissioner David H. Stevens tells us not to worry about his agency’s dwindling...
- External links 2009-09-20
- Prepare for a (Weak) Oversold Bounce
- Dr. Duru submits: The S&P 500 has fallen back to the bottom of a two-month trading range, and it remains stuck in a zone extending back to October, 2008. After a swift 3-month rally from the March lows, this kind of action has all the feel of a near-term...
- External links 2009-07-09
- The Dollar May Get Some Relief from Fed's Official Exit Strategy
- Dr. Duru submits: The dollar has been stuck in a trading range for about two months as it hovers above December's lows. click to enlarge by Dr. Dr. Duru
- External links 2009-07-21
- Preparing for First Solar's Earnings
- Dr. Duru submits: Sunpower SPWRA lit a fire under solar stocks Friday with impressive earnings results and even better earnings and revenue guidance. Even First Solar FSLR, whose stock had become a bit of a laggard in the sector, powered higher around 7%. Now, FSLR's earnings report this week...
- External links 2009-07-25
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