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Damn....nice
Just sold my IBM 162.50s for ~1.78 from .49
Nice trade. Going to let GMCR 123s ride....need explosion or they will expire worthless.
GMCR finally catching a bid
Nice....going to play weeklies after open
DUDE.....This is Almoravid enough to make me add this bad boy to my core portfolio.....
Little Caesars tries bacon-wrapped crust pizza
Bruce Horovitz
17 Hours Ago
USA Today
Bacon Wrapped Little Caesar's Pizza
Source: Little Caesar's
Bacon Wrapped Little Caesar's Pizza
Little Caesars has devised a brand new place to feed the public's obsession with bacon: wrapped around the pizza crust.
More specifically, 3 1/2 feet of bacon wrapped around the pizza crust.
Today, the innovative budget pizza chain will unveil plans to nationally roll out on Feb. 23 the Bacon Wrapped Crust Deep! Deep! Dish Pizza. At $12, the limited-time offer will be one of Little Caesars' priciest pizzas.
"Every time you take a bite out of the crust, you'll get bacon," says David Scrivano, CEO at Little Caesars. The pizza also comes with pepperoni and has bacon sprinkled on top. The promotion replaces the chain's Soft Pretzel Crust Pizza.
The 19 Policy 'eases' so far... (or 24 if Romania's 2 and Denmark's 4 are counted)
Jan. 1 UZBEKISTAN
Uzbekistan's central bank cuts its refinancing rate to 9 percent from 10 percent.
Jan. 7/Feb. 4 ROMANIA
Romania's central bank cuts its key interest rate by a total of 50 basis points, taking it to a new record low of 2.25 percent. Most analysts polled by Reuters had expected the latest cut.
Jan. 15 SWITZERLAND
The Swiss National Bank stuns markets by scrapping the franc's three-year-old exchange rate cap to the euro, leading to an unprecedented surge in the currency. This de facto tightening, however, is in part offset by a cut in the interest rate on certain sight deposit account balances by 0.5 percentage points to -0.75 percent.
Jan. 15 INDIA
The Reserve Bank of India surprises markets with a 25 basis point cut in rates to 7.75 percent and signals it could lower them further, amid signs of cooling inflation and growth struggling to recover from its weakest levels since the 1980s.
Jan. 15 EGYPT
Egypt's central bank makes a surprise 50 basis point cut in its main interest rates, reducing the overnight deposit and lending rates to 8.75 and 9.75 percent, respectively.
Jan. 16 PERU
Peru's central bank surprises the market with a cut in its benchmark interest rate to 3.25 percent from 3.5 percent after the country posts its worst monthly economic expansion since 2009.
Jan. 20 TURKEY
Turkey's central bank lowers its main interest rate, but draws heavy criticism from government ministers who say the 50 basis point cut, five months before a parliamentary election, is not enough to support growth.
Jan. 21 CANADA
The Bank of Canada shocks markets by cutting interest rates to 0.75 percent from 1 percent, where it had been since September 2010, ending the longest period of unchanged rates in Canada since 1950.
Jan. 22 EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK
The ECB launches a government bond-buying programme which will pump over a trillion euros into a sagging economy starting in March and running through to September next year, and perhaps beyond.
Jan. 24 PAKISTAN
Pakistan's central bank cuts its key discount rate to 8.5 percent from 9.5 percent, citing lower inflationary pressure due to falling global oil prices. Central Bank Governor Ashraf Wathra says the new rate will be in place for two months, until the next central bank meeting to discuss further policy.
Jan. 28 SINGAPORE
The Monetary Authority of Singapore unexpectedly eases policy, saying in an unscheduled policy statement that it will reduce the slope of its policy band for the Singapore dollar because the inflation outlook has "shifted significantly" since its last review in October 2014.
Jan. 28 ALBANIA
Albania's central bank cuts its benchmark interest rate to a record low 2 percent. This follows three rate cuts last year, the most recent in November.
Jan. 30 RUSSIA
Russia's central bank unexpectedly cuts its one-week minimum auction repo rate by two percentage points to 15 percent, a little over a month after raising it by 6.5 points to 17 percent, as fears of recession mount following the fall in global oil prices and Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
Feb. 3 AUSTRALIA
The Reserve Bank of Australia cuts its cash rate to an all-time low of 2.25 percent, seeking to spur a sluggish economy while keeping downward pressure on the local dollar.
Feb. 4 CHINA
China's central bank makes a system-wide cut to bank reserve requirements -- its first in more than two years -- to unleash a flood of liquidity to fight off economic slowdown and looming deflation.
Jan. 19/22/29/Feb. 5 DENMARK
The Danish central bank cuts interest rates a remarkable four times in less than three weeks, and intervenes regularly in the currency market to keep the crown within the narrow range of its peg to the euro.
Feb. 13 SWEDEN
Sweden's central bank cut its key repo rate to -0.1 percent from zero where it had been since October, and said it would buy 10 billion Swedish crowns worth of bonds
February 17, INDONESIA
Indonesia’s central bank unexpectedly cut its main interest rate for the first time in three years
February 18, BOTSWANA
The Bank of Botswana reduced its benchmark interest rate for the first time in more than a year to help support the economy as inflation pressures ease.
The rate was cut by 1 percentage point to 6.5 percent, the first adjustment since Oct. 2013, the central bank said in an e-mailed statement on Wednesday.
Gotta get dat Honda on dubs.....
De-Dollarization Accelerates: Russia Launches SWIFT-Alternative Linking 91 Entities
"The new service, will allow Russian banks to communicate seamlessly through the Central Bank of Russia."
India Lifts Ban On Bank Gold Imports: Gold Can Again Be Used As Loan Collateral
Was going to take some lotto calls for this week on GPRO....woulda shoulda
S&P Hits Goldman Sachs 2015 Year-End Target (10-Months Early) at 2100
VXX looking to test that 30.95 area again. If that breaks I think we see a run to new highs in the markets. Again. Again.
I would short any bounce
Nice, only one thing left to do. Go ALL IN on PCLN!!!
Glad to hear it was nothing. That kind of thing would make me a little nervous too.
Silver just got monkey hammered....Gold lower too, but not nearly as bad
FUTS back to bar, NAS leading the charge in the green. Going to look to lock in some call profit early in the week and see where this thing goes. Still biased for puts, but I had to save all my bear plays last week and ride the wave up. I love bear markets....never made more money than I did during the last "crash." Tends to be faster, larger, tougher to front run moves, but very profitable.
Agreed....just a feeling of a company floating on a hope and a prayer with credit from yesteryear in the glory days. They are in probably 95% of offices at every desk, but I have to wonder where the next spark comes from. They definitely lost their sex appeal. I thought for a hot minute the AAPL deal would lead to something but so far that's a dud. Wondering if 10 years down the road they go the way of Kodak and divest certain divisions. That's extreme, but I don't see the future for them....and I don't think they do either. Then again....AOL is still chugging along with dial up clients.
Or Rob Lowe does a hostile takeover
What's funny is they haven't confirmed its a luxury vehicle....all I've heard is something resembling a minivan. That's sexy
Wait...is that.....did they just.....what happened? Is this a....Capex? What is "Capex?"
Strange place to be in....good luck
Agreed on all accounts. But the hardest pill to swallow, and one which reluctantly and cautiously keeps me in calls, is that the plunge protection team is fighting for its life and the life of the FEDs interests. Whether through USDJPY, VXX suppression, also front running to induce sentiment group think direction, the bottom line is I want to make money. I will do what works until the very second it doesn't anymore. In times like these, I tend to trade a very select few investment engines....and I'll occasionally follow irregular volume activity to ride the heals of apparent sharp/in-the-know investors. Aside from that, I always reflect on one of my favorite quotes:
October: This is one of the particularly dangerous months to invest in stocks. Other dangerous months are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.” - Mark Twain
My first call would be your broker....questions would be tax and margin requirement implications.
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Lengthy piece....but very interesting. Especially the "bubbles bursting in March"
Welcome To Eccles Island: Where Tulips Bloom In A Polar Vortex
"This is amplifying the evidence that at the very least the U.S. capital markets are experiencing a bubble dwarfing the dot-com mania of the late 90’s. Quite possibly having more in common with the peak of the tulip mania of the 1600’s than the former. The reason? It’s not just one area of a market any longer. It’s now the entirety of the markets as a whole.
Preposterous you say? Fair enough. So let’s think this through since it’s a long weekend for pondering such hypotheticals via the proverbial 50,000 ft. view from above."
"Just to give some more color unto this whole idea of having plenty of time, or one being patient. All the above manias have another historical coincidence. They all culminated their bursting in the month of March."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-15/welcome-eccles-island-where-tulips-bloom-polar-vortex
Hard to see this as positive with the GAAP earnings numbers, buybacks VS Capex, and persistent downgrading of forward earnings....not to mention National GDP and Credit to market. Very strange place we find ourselves in.
Google co-founders to sell $4.4B of stock
Larry Page and Sergey Brin plan to sell shares currently worth about $4.4B over the next two years, leaving the Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) founders with barely half the shares they held when they took the company public in 2004.
Their remaining combined stake would still be worth nearly $45B.
SEC Form 8-K
I was in the same boat, didn't let them expire though. Closed SPY, IWM Puts and VXX calls for ~40% loss across the board and road the trend with AAPL, SPY and IWM calls for a nice profit. FSLR calls barely closed at break even, just can't shake the feeling this is overextended.
This was brought to my attention earlier. Not a huge bet by any stretch, but the time frame is interesting. Someone bought 3,000 CRM February 64 calls for $0.40 ($120,000). These options expire next Friday. 4 day week to pass break even at $64.40
Odd....contango plays a part no matter what due to the underlying instrument. The triple leveraged DUST and NUGT are pretty heavily traded as is....I'm a regular trader of the options on both. 2X lev etfs? Not quite sure what the angle is here, nor how popular they become. In a fundamentally risky investment engine, it tends to attract certain risk aversion profiles...not sure luke warm is among them
ProShares launches 4 ETFs for 2x and -2x exposure to gold miners
The Ultra Gold Miners (NYSEARCA:GDXX) and the UltraShort Gold Miners (NYSEARCA:GDXS), which seeks to provide 2x and -2x the daily performance of the NYSE Arca Gold Miners IndexSM respectively.
The Ultra Junior Miners (NYSEARCA:GDJJ) and the UltraShort Junior Miners (NYSEARCA:GDJS), which seeks to provide 2x and -2x the daily performance of the Market VectorsTM Global Junior Gold Miners Index respectively.
“The mining sector is popular with tactical investors, we are pleased to offer the only ETFs providing 2x and -2x exposure to the leading gold mining indexes.” said Michael L. Sapir, co-founder and CEO of ProShare Advisors LLC in a statement.
Other gold miners and junior gold miner ETFs: GDX, NUGT, GDXJ, DUST, JNUG, GLDX, JDST, RING, SGDM, PSAU
I followed you on this trade and GMCR
Beast mode
I remember in April of 1991 my father began taking all (money) gifts I received for birthdays and holidays and forced me to buy stock....Apple and Comcast were his favorites. My first 58 AAPL shares were purchased in April for $1.70/share...I was allowed the remaining $0.82 to enjoy. This continued through college. At the time I felt pissed off and looked at my father as this evil, fun sucking, destroyer of dreams. Fast forward to today and I get it....AAPL is still the largest part of my portfolio and I've never sold one share, bought on every significant dip, and have been taking my daughters money and investing for her as well. This doesn't help anyone on the board, but as I sit here drinking my coffee, my daughter walks by and looks at the AAPL chart I have pulled up and shoots off a snide "oh great....Apple" comment. Something to the effect of I own stock but I'm stuck with the 5S LOL. Just made me laugh. Crazy were this company has come from and is going. Fun to own, fun to trade.
I believe Tesla is in the same boat......go ahead and include IBM, INTL, CSCO, and countless others who choose opulence over capex for the previous 4+ years. I give up on contrarian.......just kidding. I am back in puts for the new week again effective tomorrow. Frustrating market
Apparently it isn't working as well as they would like....
Feds Hold Hearing On Whether They Should ‘Regulate’ Sites Like Zero Hedge
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-12/feds-hold-hearing-whether-they-should-%E2%80%98regulate%E2%80%99-sites-zero-hedge
Correction ~1.97
In at ~1.87
People have been saying the same about AMZN for years....momo does what momo wants in these markets