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Friday, April 26, 2024

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  1. phil

    Well, so much for shorting.   I guess we're back to bad news is good news on data.

    • EIA Petroleum Inventories:
    • Crude +3.5M barrels vs.consensus of +2.4M and +10M last week.
    • Gasoline -0.3M barrels vs. consensus of -1.4M and -0.2M last week.
    • Distillates +0.6M barrels and -1.3M last week.
    • Futures -0.12% at $101.63.

    Nothing for oil bulls to get excited about on this report.  

    HOV/Pwright – That's one of our featured trades in the Webinar today. 

    GMCR/CDT – Nice move down, too bad they didn't hit $110 first as we could have bought back the short puts in our spread.  Rising coffee prices hitting them.

    Wolf/ZZ – Thanks, good article. 

    KKR/Wombat – I don't see it yet.  

    Break/Yo – It's already broken, this market is completely unrealistic but that's because the Fed keeps telling people there IS a Santa Claus – and he comes any time we have even the slightest of dips.  

    ISRG/DM – With both, you have to wait and give the downgrade police a crack at them as they could go lower, though $380 is our predicted floor over the long run on ISRG.  IRBT is having a ridiculous drop vs the earnings report.  Consumer division is going gangbusters and military contracts were on hold – no surprise there.  

    With either one, step one is selling puts into the excitement of the drop.  You can sell ISRG 2016 $350 puts for $44 and that's net $306, which is another 25% off and 1/2 the highs.  On IRBT, you can sell the Dec $35 puts for $5.50 for net $29.50 and I'd be happy to own either at that price but, after that housing report – I'm even happier to wait a few days to see how low things can go. 

    TZA/Burr – Yep, sorry about those.  Better to stop out quick and reload when things make more sense.  

    CHL/DM – I like CHL as a long-term play.  They are simply having the same problem T used to have with up-front AAPL costs hurting their margins and we bought T back then too because it's the kind of thing that reaps long-term rewards.  Meanwhile, I would not jump in until we see a bar forming that's not red.  Especially when you are initiating 2-year plays – what's the hurry? 



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