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Just to update on my positions:
Sold my FAS puts for a 74% gain.
Yesterday I bought:
Apple Apr 21 $655 Calls @ $6.45
LVS Apr 21 $60 Calls @ $1.54
CRM Apr 21 $160 Calls @ $2.35
FAS Apr 21 $105 Calls @ $2.63
Good luck everyone. I think the bulls step up their play today, at least that's what I'm betting on.
Don't forget, Bernake speaks tonight at 7:15 pm. Not sure what he's going to say but he's had quite a few days to have his speech prepared and written.
Nice! When did you pick those up?
It's interesting to think how it would have worked out if the market was open on Friday as opposed to being closed. I'm still holding my FAS puts. I was banking on it going lower over the weekend but we will see, I've seen some pretty crazy things happen in the market, unexplainable. So I won't think about much until 9:30AM tomorrow
Dow is Down -131 premarket currently (this in addition to the 120 point drop on Friday).
It is a concern but I don't see the FED stepping up at this point to announce anything about the QE3. If the market has a steep correction then I would think they would entertain the idea. But the options that I'm holding expire Apr 21st, I'm expecting any kind of news about it to come after the 24th-25th meetings. But Bernake is speaking at 7:15pm on Monday, so I'm not sure what he is going to say...
I think that's smart. The market made a triple top which is made me purchase the puts that I did on FAS. The jobs report could fuel this as we saw in the 45 minutes of trading on Friday.
Bernake is going to speak at 7:15 PM on Monday night, any ideas what you think he will say and what spin he will try to put on things?
I'm holding quite a few FAS puts currently over the weekend.
April 21st expiration
$102 puts @ 2.90
$99 puts @ 2.84 (paid a little too high for this one but it didn't move exactly as I had predicted on Thursday)
L-back a great link to keep a watch on futures is on CNBC. Here ya go:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/17689937/site/14081545/
They changed premarket back to Unchanged. It won't update again until Sunday night when the Asian markets open.
Keep in mind the auto reports that came out.
Keep the charts coming! What parameters are you using on your current searches?
US Adds 120,000 Jobs (Estimates were 203,000)
The pace of job creation rose far less than expected in March, with the U.S. economy generating 120,000 new positions, a sharp drop from the prior three months' average of 245,000.
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The unemployment rate slid to 8.2 percent, according to government data released Friday.
That compares to 227,000 workers added in February, when the unemployment rate was reported at 8.3 percent.
The consensus forecast for March had been for 203,000 total jobs, with the unemployment rate unchanged, according to Thomson Reuters.
The jobs report was released as U.S. stock markets closed for the Good Friday holiday. The U.S. bond market and futures markets were open for part of the day. The last time the jobs report was released on Good Friday was in 2010.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46975031
Still holding my FAS puts which was risky over this weekend, let's see how the futures do with the news. They open for 45 minutes of trading today and close at 9:15 A.M.
It's because of the jobless report. The data is being manipulated again. For the XXXteenth time in a row the analysts magically revised their estimates and said that jobless claims would increase when they haven't increased in months. They're doing anything that they can to make this market go up, it's just sad that it will fall even harder as they continue to manipulate data like this.
Still holding FAS puts as I believe this thing will be going down pretty hard. Can't do smoke and mirrors forever.
Bought FAS puts this morning. April 21 $102 puts and $99 puts.
I don't think the market will hold it's support levels this time around. I expect a test of the 50MA before the week is over.
Keep your head up CP, it's all about making profit on your trades. Look at it this way, what if you didn't sell at 2.18 and it dropped hard? Be happy with the profits you make. Don't ever get married to a stock. And there is always another play out there, just have to find it!
Lock profits = success.
INDU future +53
SPX future +6.2
Nasdaq future +11
http://www.cnbc.com/id/17689937/site/14081545/
I'm sure betting on it. I have April FAS calls :)
It was halted dropped big time then basically rebounded so far. Sometimes I just don't understand earnings. Miss EPS, Miss earnings and your CEO steps down.. and the stock rebounds to go up... lol :P
RIMM CEO Stepping down after missing earnings & eps
Glad I bought puts today ;)
http://www.businessinsider.com/live-rim-earnings-2012-3
Research in Motion just released earnings, and on a first read it's ugly.
It missed on revenue and EPS, and it says it will stop giving guidance.
The stock is halted for trading right now.
Jim Balsillie, the company's former CEO, and current director, is stepping down from the board. RIM's CTO is stepping down.
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Results versus street expectations for RIM (via Bernstein):
$4.2 billion versus $4.6 billion revenue
$0.80 EPS versus $0.81 EPS
Smartphone shipments 11.8 million
Net subscriber additions 4.4 million
Just an update.
Sold my bearish positions and picked up FAS calls $110 & $116 April. The market went back into upward channel.
Sold AMZN $215 Apr Calls
In @ Average of 2.01
Sold @ 2.40
I think I told you on FB chat last night that it would test. The big issue is if the market can rally this power hour to keep the upward trend in tack as it would have bounced off the bottom trend line (the chart I sent you last night).
Here's to a huge close.
Closed my BHI positions:
BHI $41 puts, April
Bought @ .75, .85
Sold @ 1.32, 1.35
Closed NFLX for small gain bought @ 2.41 sold @ 2.51
Market testing trend line, picked up FAZ calls $21 April just in case.
Also in AMZN April $215 calls
If market bounces off trend line she's a runner imo
Thanks bud good luck to ya! : )
Nice call bud. I jumped in BHI puts today around 42.75. Keep posting the great charts.
Here are my trades from the last 3 days:
03/27/12 Bought BHI APR 21 '12 $41 PUT(BHI) @ $.85
03/27/12 Bought BHI APR 21 '12 $41 PUT(BHI) @ $.75
03/26/12 Bought To Open NFLX APR 21 '12 $110PUT (NFLX) @ $2.41
03/27/12 Sold AMZN MAR 30 '12 $205 CALL (AMZN) @$3.80
03/26/12 Bought To Open AMZN MAR 30 '12 $205 CALL (AMZN) @$1.77
03/26/12 Sold To Close FAS APR 21 '12 $110 CALL(FAS) @ $6.90
03/23/12 Bought To Open FAS APR 21 '12 $110 CALL(FAS) @ $4.30
03/26/12 Sold To Close LVS MAY 19 '12 $60 CALL(LVS) @ $2.50
03/22/12 Bought To Open LVS MAY 19 '12 $60 CALL(LVS) @ $2.44
03/26/12 Sold To Close BIDU APR 21 '12 $150 CALL(BIDU) @ $4.55
03/22/12 Bought To Open BIDU APR 21 '12 $150 CALL(BIDU) @ $2.76
Currently I am holding BHI Puts and NFLX puts.
Rhythm nice call on BIDU (I was already in when you posted) but jumped in BHI on your recommendation. Keep up the great work.
Guys,
I'm going to say my goodbyes again. I took a small amount of money and tried to make something of it. When I saw the S&P break 1355 this morning, I hopped onto $530 AAPL calls for this Friday. Obviously it was a risky trade, the stock was around $524. It spiked up to over $526 but now with the selloff, it looks like I won't really be able to recoup.
Lesson learned - don't pull all of your eggs into one basket.
Good luck guys.
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Unveils New Keurig Brewing Platform
Keurig® Vue™ offers greater customization to brew what you like stronger, bigger, and hotter
WATERBURY, Vt.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc., (GMCR) (NASDAQ: GMCR - News), a leader in specialty coffee and coffee makers, today announced the expansion of its line of Keurig® Single Cup Brewers with the addition of the Keurig® Vue™ brewer, a premium new platform designed with the ability to brew stronger, bigger, and hotter. The new Vue™ brewer, paired with new Vue™ packs, maintains the simplicity and convenience of the existing Keurig® K-Cup® system with added customizable features so consumers have control over the strength, size, and temperature of their beverages.
Vue™ Platform Benefits
•Brew Stronger: With Custom Brew Technology™, the Vue™ brewer adjusts water pressure, timing, and airflow so consumers can brew to better suit their taste preference.
•Brew Bigger: Consumers can brew a larger travel mug with new Vue™ packs specially formulated to brew a bigger cup up to 18 oz.
•Brew Hotter: Vue™ offers a brewing temperature range between 187 and 197 degrees Fahrenheit so consumers have more ways to customize the perfect cup.
Executive Comments
•“Developed jointly by GMCR’s brewer, coffee, packaging and manufacturing experts, the introduction of the Keurig® Vue™ brewer is a significant milestone in the evolution of our Company and required exemplary coordination and synergy across the organization. That teamwork, coupled with our continued focus on scale and technology innovation, gives me the confidence we can continue to build a great company and maintain a competitive advantage over the longer term.” – Larry Blanford, President & CEO of GMCR
•“The new Keurig® Vue™ brewer represents the next advance in single-serve beverage delivery and is a great example of GMCR’s commitment to delivering sustained innovation. By adding new features that allow consumers to brew what they love the way they love it -- stronger, bigger and hotter -- we’ve further enhanced consumer choice and we believe broadened the appeal of the Keurig® Single Cup Brewing system. ” – Michelle Stacy, President of GMCR’s Keurig business unit
•“The Vue™ platform was engineered first and foremost to deliver an exceptional cup of coffee. Moreover, in designing this addition to the Keurig® family, we also looked to a pack design and brewing technology that would allow us to continue to expand the variety of beverage categories we’re able to offer to consumers, and we’re excited about the existing choice and future possibilities that innovation supports.” – Scott McCreary, President of GMCR’s Specialty Coffee business unit
New Vue™ Pack
•Innovation: The design of the new, patented, single-serve Vue™ pack accommodates varying grind volume and packing requirements so that consumers can enjoy a variety of beverage options including coffee, tea, hot cocoa, iced, fruit-based, and frothy café beverages.
•Choice: Vue™ packs will debut with more than 30 varieties representing a mix of brands and taste profiles including Green Mountain Coffee®, Barista Prima®, Tully’s®, Coffee People®, Gloria Jean’s®, Green Mountain Naturals®, Café Escapes®, Caribou Coffee®, Celestial Seasonings®, Emeril’s®, Newman’s Own® Organics, Timothy’s® and Van Houtte®. Also exclusive to Vue™ is GMCR’s newest beverage innovation, two-step Barista Prima® Café beverages, which includes separate dairy frother packs designed to deliver a high quality blending of premium gourmet coffee and creamy froth while maintaining the convenience of Keurig® brewing. In addition, GMCR and The J.M. Smucker Company have reached an agreement to include the Folger’s® Gourmet Selections™ and Millstone® brands as part of the Vue™ system. GMCR expects to offer up to 50 Vue™ pack varieties by the end of June.
•Recyclability: The Vue™ system represents an incremental step on GMCR’s journey to reduce its environmental impact. The Vue™ pack’s cup is made from polypropylene #5 plastic and can be recycled wherever polypropylene/#5 plastics are accepted, currently in approximately half of the communities in the United States.
Vue™ Brewer Features
•Fully programmable color touchscreen featuring auto on/off, temperature and strength control, energy saver mode and size selection
•Eight brew sizes – from 4 oz. to 18 oz. travel mug
•Removable 74 oz. water reservoir
•Removable drip tray with adjustable plate
•Cord storage
•Brews in under one minute
Vue™ System Availability
•Under the Keurig® brand name, GMCR offers a variety of single-cup brewers differentiated by features and size for both commercial and at-home use.
•The Keurig® Vue™ V700 brewer is the first of a planned Vue™ Series for home use. The product will be available for purchase in Bed Bath and Beyond stores nationwide as well as GMCR’s two consumer-direct websites (http://www.greenmountaincoffee.com and http://www.keurig.com) in the coming weeks. The Vue™ V700 brewer and associated Vue™ packs will become more widely available in a variety of retail stores over the coming months.
•A commercial Vue™ brewer for away-from-home workplace use will be available through Keurig Authorized Distributors in the fall of 2012. This platform will incorporate Vue™ packs embedded with RFID technology. This technology is designed to simplify the brewing experience and ensure beverages are of the highest quality and consistency for those users who may not be familiar with the brewer.
•GMCR’s new Vue™ brewer and Vue™ packs will complement the current Keurig® K-Cup® brewer platform and its K-Cup® packs.
Additional Resources
•Vue™ Information: http://www.keurig.com/VueSystem or www.greenmountaincoffee.com/vue-learn-more
•Main Keurig® Store: http://www.keurig.com/Keurig-Store
•For more information on GMCR’s environmental journey, visit www.brewingabetterworld.com.
About Keurig, Incorporated and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc.
Keurig, Incorporated, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (also called the Keurig business unit), is a pioneer and leading manufacturer of single-cup brewing systems. Keurig's proprietary brewing system combines a pressurized hot water brewer with multiple varieties of portion packs, which feature patented designs that preserves the freshness of gourmet coffee and tea. Through licensing agreements, Keurig offers more than 200 varieties of premium branded coffees and teas in K-Cup® packs. More than 3 billion cups of Keurig Brewed® coffee and tea have been enjoyed since 1998. For more information, please visit www.keurig.com or call 888-CUP-BREW.
As a leader in specialty coffee and coffee makers, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR - News), is recognized for its award-winning coffees, innovative Keurig® Single Cup brewing technology, and socially responsible business practices. GMCR supports local and global communities by offsetting 100% of its direct greenhouse gas emissions, investing in sustainably-grown coffee, and donating at least five percent of its pre-tax profits to social and environmental projects.
GMCR routinely posts information that may be of importance to investors in the Investor Relations section of its website, including news releases and its complete financial statements, as filed with the SEC. The Company encourages investors to consult this section of its website regularly for important information and news. Additionally, by subscribing to the Company’s automatic email news release delivery, individuals can receive news directly from GMCR as it is released.
This should hopefully be good for the pop the stock needs to break the 69/70$ resistance. If the S&P can break the 1355 resistance, it could definitely move.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Green-Mountain-Coffee-bw-2076687719.html?x=0
Ah regretting trades that's the ability of hindsight. Wish I held my 470$ apple calls I'd be up over 1200% in a week! Still plugging along though. Still looking for a much better paying job using all my contacts in my network but nothing yet. Sigh... Haha. How are you?
Dow +60 afterhours
Thanks bud.
You ever have those trades where you wish you could turn back time? For me I would go back to last week and not sell my $470 calls on Apple. I'd be up over 1200% on my investment... sigh...
lol it's getting pretty crazy...
Well I held onto my $67.50 calls on GMCR after that. Pretty red right now, but I think tomorrow will pop out of that if this continues.
TVIX down after hours
FAZ down
ZNGA made back the drop right after it closed (Dropped 6% on earnings and erased every bit of that drop already)
Market rebounded like crazy providing a possible green day tomorrow.
My calls on GMCR expire Friday so as long as it continues it's bullish run I'll be able to at least make my initial investment back more than likely.
Reports of a Greece deal now...
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46381496
Stocks closed narrowly mixed Tuesday, cutting earlier losses in the final minutes of trading following reports that Greek conservative leaders will deliver commitment to lenders on Wednesday.
“[Greece] was the same reason why we were selling off today in the first place,” said Todd Schoenberger, managing director at LandColt Trading. “This goes to show you the power that the Greece news still holds on this market and how it continues to hold us hostage.”
Stocks were whipsawed by several rumors regarding Greece all day. Earlier, stocks were near lows on worries that euro zone finance ministers appeared unlikely to release the Greek bailout funds by Wednesday as hoped.
A weaker-than-expected retail sales report also weighed on market sentiment.
Major U.S. Indexes.DJIA12878.284.24+0.03%.NCOMP2931.830.44+0.01%0.SPX1350.50-1.27-0.09%0
The Dow Jones Industrial Average eked out a gain in the final seconds of trading. H-P [HPQ 29.08 0.33 (+1.15%) ] led the blue-chip gainers, while BofA [BAC 7.98 -0.27 (-3.27%) ] and DuPont [DD 49.66 -0.94 (-1.86%) ] sagged.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also ended mixed. The CBOE Volatility Index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, closed above 19.
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“We’ve had great gains since the beginning of the year, but things are overdone and we’re having a hard time breaking above the 1,350 level on the S&P,” said Kevin Craney of RJO Futures Brokers. “There are a lot of macro-economic headwinds coming from Europe and the U.S. as well that could give us a bit of a pullback.”
Craney said he expects a 3-5 percent pullback on the S&P in the next month.
“There’s a lot of cash sitting on the sidelines and you haven’t seen that money come back into equities or commodities from a risk standpoint so you’re looking for a little bit of a pullback to commit a little more capital in those and then you’ll see more volume,” he added.
On the economic front, retail sales rose less than expected in January, according to the Commerce Department.
The government also revised its reading for retail sales in November lower, suggesting that consumers didn't spend as much as previously expected during the holiday season.
Sales of cars and auto parts dropped in addition to shopping at nonstore retailers.
In Europe, Rating agency Moody's warned it may cut the triple-A ratings of France, the United Kingdom and Austria, while it downgraded the ratings of Italy, Portugal, Spain, Slovakia, Slovenia and Malta.
The ratings agency's move came a day after Greece's lawmakers approved a new round of austerity measures aimed at securing a bailout package. Euro zone finance ministers are likely to talk by phone rather than meet to discuss financial aid for Greece because the paperwork required is incomplete, according to sources.
Meanwhile, Germany's investor and analyst sentiment jumped to its highest since April 2011.
Bank of America [BAC 7.98 -0.27 (-3.27%) ] slipped after Citi cut its rating on the financial giant to "neutral" from "buy," citing ongoing earnings headwinds for the firm. Still, Citi raised its price target on BofA to $8.5 from $8.
Meanwhile, Boeing [BA 75.56 0.71 (+0.95%) ] gained after the Dow component said it signed a deal worth $22.4 billion, its largest commercial airplane order ever, with Indonesia's Lion Air.
On the tech front, Yahoo [YHOO 15.365 -0.755 (-4.68%) ] plunged after reports Alibaba and Softbank have called off talks over sales of the search-engine company's Asian assets.
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple's [AAPL 509.46 6.86 (+1.36%) ] upcoming iPad 3 will use the 4G networks of both Verizon [VZ 38.04 -0.09 (-0.24%) ] and AT&T [T 30.07 0.03 (+0.1%) ]. The news comes after the iPad maker hit a major milestone, closing above $500 a share for the first time in the previous session.
Meanwhile, U.S. and European regulators approved Google's [GOOG 609.76 -2.44 (-0.4%) ] $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility [MMI 39.68 0.05 (+0.13%) ], but warned they would closely monitor the Internet giant to ensure patents critical to the telecommunications industry would be licensed at fair prices.
Michael Kors [KORS 42.76 9.15 (+27.22%) ] surged after the luxury retailer posted strong earnings, thanks to rising demand.
Metlife [MET 37.32 -0.36 (-0.96%) ] and Zynga [ZNGA 14.352 0.933 (+6.95%) ] scheduled to post earnings after-the-bell tonight.
Also on the economic front, import prices rose 0.3 percent in January, according to the Labor Department as petroleum and food rebounded strongly. And business inventories rose 0.4 percent to $1.56 trillion in December, according to the Commerce Department.
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Coming Up This Week:
WEDNESDAY: MBA mortgage applications, Empire state mfg survey, treasury international capital, industrial production, Fed's Fisher speaks, housing market index, oil inventories, FOMC minutes, credit card default rates reported; Earnings from Comcast, Abercrombie & Fitch, Deere, CBS, Netapp, Nvidia
THURSDAY: Housing starts, jobless claims, PPI, Bernanke speaks at FDIC hearing, Philadelphia Fed survey; earnings from GM, Applied Materials, Baidu, Nordstrom
FRIDAY: CPI, leading indicators; Earnings from Campbell Soup, Heinz
Thanks break. Not yet, still playing short term, I want to see what kind of volume will come in before I take a longer term approach to this one.
Looks like a lot of things are dipping due to the market dipping in the last hour.
Bought GMCR $67.50 Calls @ avg 1.422, sold @ 1.61. Looking to rebuy as 67.70 looks to be some resistance and I expect an intraday pullback.
Thanks for the heads up bud. I definitely will keep my eye out for it. Please let me know if you see anything as well.