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I followed a trader earlier when they bought over 25,000 KO May 44 calls for $0.50 each ($1.25 million) today.
KO trades 26,000 total calls per day on average. The break-even price at expiration is $44.50 (5.6% move from here....pretty big for a consumer staple stock).
I'm wondering if this has anything at all to do with GMCR...a name I trade weekly. Interesting either way
Lol....still stuck on that huh?
MOMO should carry it to the new record, but I think it will be short lived. RSI at 85 (last couple times that happened it signaled a trend change) and there are gaps galore below. Tough to think this way right now though, this juggernaut is in beast mode
PCLN
The Priceline Group Announces Proposed Public Offering of Senior Notes
NORWALK, Conn., Feb. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Priceline Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PCLN) announced today its intention to offer, subject to market and other conditions, a benchmark issue of Senior Notes in an underwritten public offering.
The Priceline Group plans to use the net proceeds from the offering of the notes for general corporate purposes, which may include share repurchases, repayment of debt and acquisitions, among other uses.
Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, will act as joint book-running managers for the offering.
The offering is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3 that has previously been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). A preliminary prospectus supplement, together with the accompanying prospectus, related to the offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC's website, http://www.sec.gov. Copies of the preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus related to this offering may be obtained by contacting: Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, at +1 (800) 503-4611 or prospectus.cpdg@db.com.
Just can't shake the feeling something is brewing in TSLA. Next to impossible to borrow, low float, relatively small market cap, moves 9% on a whim, negative sentiment, AAPL rumors, sexy product, charismatic/eccentric CEO, Amazonesque something from nothing valuation, government backing, infra-structurally holding golden ticket to growing sector. Seems like the perfect pig with lipstick that investors/activists/larger corporations love to dig their teeth into. I've been wrong before, but this thing feels antsy to run big....
Not that I could see.....doesn't mean it's not a long term holders hedge to a portfolio through. The interesting part of this trade is that that it is very ITM. It closed today at $14.85, this means that $1.15 is intrinsic, and $0.97 is option premium. This is an important distinction to make because if these options were to expire tomorrow, this trader would lose $0.97 per contract for a total of $1.94 million. It's not expiring tomorrow, but this is (in effect) shorting the stock.
Or everything...
Ex-Plunge Protection Team Whistleblower: "Governments Control Markets; There Is No Price Discovery Anymore" | Zero Hedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-23/ex-plunge-protection-team-whistleblower-governments-control-markets-there-no-price-d
Someone bought 20,000 TCK May 16 puts for $2.12 each ($4.2Mil)
TCK trades 4,700 puts/day on average, so a 20,000 lot is enormous. (break-even of $13.88.....6.5% move)
Looking rough, was looking at 204s as a hedge, but I think the best strategy right now is SOH.
It's noon on Monday and the Algos haven't even had their coffee yet....lot of days left in the week and Greece/Germany love their headlines. Wait and see
I'm keeping it light today...not all about catching knives, but I do think this will be short lived.
At the end of the day, they still make most of their money (for now at least) by government carbon tax credits. Don't fight the fed....or the government. We shall see where this goes
John Lovallo of BoA Meryl Lynch has called SELL at the bottom of nearly every major upswing in TSLA for YEARS.
http://bit.ly/1BdVHXe
He is by far the worst performing analyst on TSLA. Following his calls in 2013 would lose an investor 427% and vastly more on margin and options.
On Tipranks the guy is in the bottom 5 percentile of all analysts. Basically a complete embarrassment to BoA Meryl Lynch.
Ranked #3477 out of 3498 Analysts ngIf: BankSite (Ranked #7699 out of 7724 total experts)
For comparison here is how Lovallo stacks up on TSLA amongst a list of grown ups.
http://bit.ly/1FjV3Vp
These include 1 x hold (Goldman), 4 x buy Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Barclays, Pacific Crest. One other sell Ryan Brinkman JP Morgan (ranked 41 on Tipranks - so pretty credible).
AAPL is unreal....beast
~FCX 19 WPs @.09
In FCX WPs @ .09
In at .56.
Adding here....thinking this will bounce off the 50DMA here at 209.77ish
Saw that on the Twitter feed....looking to add more cheeper
Aaaaaand TSLA green lmao
Lot of TSLA hate this morning
The German parliament is unlikely to approve extending Greece's bailout before it expires at the end of the month, a senior lawmaker of Germany's ruling coalition said Sunday, according to Bloomberg...
Hans Michelbach, a finance expert of the Christian Social Union, told the Handelsblatt newspaper it is "inconceivable that the German parliament can make a final decision on the bridge program for Greece before the end of February."
The CSU is the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats. The finance ministers of Greece and the other eurozone countries agreed on Friday to an extension of the bailout program for the highly indebted country, which has to be approved by the parliaments of some of the supporting countries, including Germany.
The Greek overhaul proposals must be examined thoroughly by the governments and the parliaments, and that process won't be concluded by Feb. 28, Mr. Michelbach said.
I read this last night:
"Prominent French Journalist Calls For France-Germany-Russia Alliance" "will be the only chance for Europe to get rid of the United States protectorate and become, in the words of General de Gaulle, a ‘Free Europe’."
And then CNBC right on cue this morning:
"The European ties Russia is binding closer
Catherine Boyle | @cboylecnbc
5 Hours Ago
CNBC.com
Russia's relationship with the European Union establishment is at its lowest ebb for decades. However, its ties with some sections of European politics are getting stronger.
In March last year, when tensions surrounding Ukraine were at their highest, politicians from a mix of minority left-and right-wing European parties landed in Crimea. In their opinion, the Crimea referendum, in which 95.5 percent of those who voted said Yes to rejoining Russia, was free and fair. The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, which would usually have sent a team of observers, did not attend the Crimea referendum as it deemed it illegal.
As relationships between Russia and the West hit their lowest ebb since the fall of the Iron Curtain, concerns in the West are mounting that Russia may seek to destabilize other countries than Ukraine – and that it is doing this partly through the countries' minority parties.
The U.K. defense secretary Michael Fallon claimed Thursday in remarks to U.K. journalists that there is a "real and present danger" of Russia trying to destabilise the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – and that he is worried about "pressure" from Russia on these countries, all NATO members.
SRPT....my dear dear SRPT. My largest profit from a trade in my life in 2012 came from her...followed an unusually large buyer and knew something was cooking with the FDA. Went big hoping for a double and got much much more. Haven't traded it in over a year, but she'll always be special
Great comparison of AMZN and TSLA. I always mentally compare the two stories....this guy has a pretty good grasp on the idea behind the growth (stock price growth) of the two.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2936466-ripping-the-shorts-faces-off?app=1&auth_param=3un8p:1aehqqa:64c1ed7f634fc2680bc3dd23df7f3252&uprof=44
Green....who knew
VXX LOD
123.50
VXX dropping, SPY rising....1 Greek headline away from closing week green
Sold 1/3 @ .30 GOOGL
123.20 and climbing....this will see 125 today
In GOOGL WC 545 @ .20 extreme lotto
GMCR has been one of my favorite horses for options the last 3 years. This beast can RUN
All indicators are bullish....if GMCR busts through the 20 MA (here) this will run hard
Yeah buddy....still holding 123s
Yep...just giving themselves time for the trade to work
FB - Someone bought 4,000 October 82.5 calls for $5.45.
$2.2 million with break-even price of $87.95, 11% move to break even
My favorite day of the month
Wall Street sees head count drop
Squeezed by new capital and risk rules and tough markets, Wall Street is taking the ax to its workforce, a report by London research firm Coalition shows.
The number of investment bankers, traders, salespeople and research analysts at the world’s largest banks has fallen 20% globally since its recent peak in 2010.
While job cuts on the front end have become standard, firms have been increasing their back-office hiring to beef up controls in areas ranging from compliance to risk
You ever date a girl (or guy), and they are amazing at first, they seem perfect, say all the right things, act right, and then one day you realize they were hiding their crazy the whole time.....that's how I feel about Florida right now.
She was all like "I'm the sunshine state".....this morning she is the ice queen
Bloomberg: Apple's first car could arrive by 2020
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is "pushing its team to begin production of an electric vehicle as early as 2020," Bloomberg reports. The WSJ and Reuters recently reported an EV project is underway, but didn't provide a timetable.
Bloomberg adds Apple's car team now has ~200 people, after "ramping up hiring within the past couple of months as the company sought out experts in technologies for batteries and robotics." EV battery maker A123 Systems just sued Apple for allegedly poaching senior engineers for a battery project, while stating it also believes Apple has tried to hire battery experts from LG Chem, Toshiba, Samsung, and other firms.
Meanwhile, 9to5 Mac has (with the help of sources) compiled a list of auto experts thus far added to Apple's team. In addition to Ford VP Steve Zadesky (previously reported by the WSJ), the list includes three Tesla hardware engineers, former Mercedes-Benz R&D chief Johann Jungwirth, former A123 CTO Mujeeb Ijaz, and several senior designers/engineers previously working on other Apple products.