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Trade of the Week: ORCL

Trade of the Week: ORCL

Oracle (ORCL) has been in the news quite a bit lately with its potential partnership with Tik Tok, a popular teen video streaming app.  The US wants China’s ByteDance to sell Tik Tok to a US company due to national security concerns.  Several companies have been in the bidding, but ORCL seems to have won […]

Trade of the Week: Workhorse (WKHS)

Trade of the Week: Workhorse (WKHS)

Investors have been very high on electric vehicle companies so far this year. While Tesla (TSLA) gets the most press as the leader in the industry, there are several smaller players who have seen plenty of action. One of these companies is Workhorse (WKHS), which makes electric delivery vans. WKHS has gotten a lot of […]

Trade of the Week: Volatility

Trade of the Week: Volatility

The market finally saw some active selling last week, with volatility climbing quite a bit higher.  The iPath VIX Short-term Futures ETN (VXX) is one of the most popular ways to trade volatility.  It covers the first two VIX futures contracts and tends to go up sharply when the market sells off.  As you may […]

Trade of the Week: Salesforce

Trade of the Week: Salesforce

One of the hottest stocks this past week was Salesforce.com (CRM). The software company recently posted huge earnings and was also added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Being added to the DJIA is a big deal for a stock because index tracking funds have to buy it to add it to their portfolios. This […]

Trade of the Week: Rocket (RKT)

Trade of the Week: Rocket (RKT)

A newly listed company is seeing a lot of unusual options activity. The company is Rocket Companies (RKT), which owns Rocket Mortgages and Quicken Loans. Despite not being around for very long (on the exchange), over 120,000 option contacts traded on one day last week. Most of the activity was on the call side, which […]

Trade of the Week: Macy’s (M)

Trade of the Week: Macy’s (M)

There was quite a bit of unusual options activity last week in Macy’s. The physical department store chain hasn’t been on the radar for most investors in years. In fact, department stores in general were seemingly going the way of the dodo, especially when the pandemic hit. However, M shares got a boost in recent […]

Trade of the Week: AAPL

Trade of the Week: AAPL

This past week was characterized by robust action in the big tech names, with companies like Apple (AAPL) and Facebook (FB) posting very strong earnings. AAPL in particular released better than expected earnings, and also announced a 4 for 1 stock split. Since splits tend to have a short-term bullish impact on the stock price, […]

Trade of the Week: INTC

Trade of the Week: INTC

The big earnings loser last week was Intel (INTC), the semiconductor giant. INTC badly missed earnings with a delay in production of their next-gen chip. The stock price dropped over 16% on the day after earnings were announced. As you’d expect, options volume was very high during the move, with a surprising amount of action […]

Trade of the Week: NIO

Trade of the Week: NIO

Electric vehicles have been all the rage lately in the stock and options market. NIO (NIO) has been no exception to this. The company is sometimes called the “Tesla of China” and actually has $1 billion worth of sales already. However, the huge run up in the stock price gave NIO an extremely high valuation, […]