Universal Display Corp. Options Look For Near-Term Rebound
by Option Review - November 8th, 2012 2:18 pm
Today’s tickers: PANL, C & DDS
PANL - Universal Display Corp. – A surprise third-quarter loss reported yesterday by the provider of technology and components in flat panel displays, lighting and electronics, sent shares in Universal Display Corp. down nearly 25% on Thursday morning to an intraday low of $21.55. A number of analysts cut their ratings on the stock following the earnings miss and after the company lowered its full-year revenue forecast. The stock is off its lows of the session, trading down 18% on the day at $23.03 as of 11:40 a.m. ET. Much of the trading traffic in front month calls and puts indicates some options market participants expect shares in PANL to potentially rebound in the near term, or at least stem further declines ahead of November expiration. Traders betting that PANL shares are at their lowest point for the time being sold in- and out-of-the-money put options that expire at the end of next week. It looks like the single largest put play was the sale of 500 contracts at the Nov. $23 strike for a premium of $0.65 apiece early in the trading session. The seller walks away with the full amount of premium in hand as long as shares in the name settle above $23.00 at expiration. At present, PANL shares have rebounded off an earlier low of $21.55, and the Nov. $23 strike put options are out-of-the-money. Similar positioning was observed at the lower Nov. $20, $21 and $22 strikes, with strategists selling at least a few hundred put contracts at each strike in the early going. Meanwhile, traders prepared to profit from a quick turnaround in the price of the underlying picked up around 300 calls at the Nov. $24 strike for an average premium of $0.74 per contract. Call buyers make money at expiration next week if PANL shares rally at least 7% over the current price of $23.03 to trade above the average breakeven price of $24.74.…
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Thrilling Thursday – Can We Make Another Billion Today?
by phil - June 2nd, 2011 7:42 am
Wheeeee!
$1,129,860,000! That’s how much money was made shorting 376,620 NYMEX contracts at $103 yesterday, as we planned! Congratulations to those of you who got your share playing along with us and, to the manipulators who got stuck with the bill – screw you bastards, we have your number and we’re going to ring it now! I called a cash-out at the $100 line in Member Chat as 2.9% was more of a drop than we expected in one day and we will re-load on the bounce as we cross back below the $100.50 line – as discussed in this morning’s Member Chat - assuming the Dollar has bottomed out at 74.35.
This isn’t complicated people – what’s the 2.5% line off of $103? $100.425. That’s where we’ll look for oil to consolidate but below that line we’ll be comfortable with our shorts again, looking for those next legs down to $98.88 (down 4%) and then $97.85, where we will once again look for a 20% retrace to $98.88 and then a nice short there when it fails. So come on – you can play along at home – don’t miss out on making the next $1.129Bn!
Meanwhile, what’s a 20% bounce off a $3 drop? 60 cents, right? Where did oil bounce to in the futures? $100.60? This is not rocket science folks… We teach these little tips to our Members every day at Philstockworld. Sure you may find it disturbing that the chart we drew up (above) in early April is hit almost to the penny on the NYSE yesterday (2 months later) as it halted right on our red line – but that just shows us that Bots are running this market (as we keep telling you) and it also means that we can rely on our ranges and that makes it EASY to make good trading decisions.
Also in Member Chat last night, I reviewed 8 short put ideas (bullish) that can net us over $3,000 in 15 days if we get a bounce and hold our "Must Hold" levels. This is the nice thing about hedging – we make money on the way up OR on the way down and, when we are trading in a range – like we hopefully will this summer – then we make money both ways on a regular basis! Let the market manipulators play their…
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Thrill-Ride Thursday – Retail Sales and Maybe Some Jobs?
by phil - January 7th, 2010 7:50 am
Beware the data!
The first thing you will hear this morning is that COST had a 9% rise in sales, with International sales up a whopping 25%. What you are less likely to hear is that COST sells a lot of gasoline, which has doubled in price since last December and, excluding inflation in gas prices, same-store sales are up just 2%, a tremendous miss of the 7.9% expected. Out of the 25% increase in International sales, 15% is attributable to currency exchange so up 10% is the real number.
This is nothing against Costco, I like that company, but it's a caution sign to look carefully at the retail numbers we're going to be seeing today as there are several outside factors that are skewing the results drastically – to the point where the numbers, whether good or bad, are almost meaningless. It's also good to keep in mind that we are comping sales to the WORST CHRISTMAS EVER so anything less than double digit gains over last year is still pretty sad.
Mish did a good job yesterday of pointing out the statistical nonsense known as the Non-Farm Payroll Report, where "Birth/Death" model revisions that were as much as 356,000 a month last year (January) make the data beyond useless for any kind of serious analysis. Nonetheless, analyze it they will and if we manage to avoid posting our 24th CONSECUTIVE month of losses, surely they will be pouring champagne on CNBC and acting like Capitalism has once again triumphed over evil (evil being people without money who still want to live with dignity).
Speaking of dignity – if you know 100 people in Nevada then, statistically, 3 of them went bankrupt this year, up 61% from last year as our economy "recovers". In Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama, just 2 of your 100 friends filed while California, surprisingly "only" had one in 66 households file for bankruptcy so you can go almost a whole day and not run into someone who lost everything in California – too bad the same can't be said for the State overall! California needs $21Bn over the next 18 months to keep the lights on. This doesn't seem so bad, GMAC is losing $13Bn this quarter and we're bailing…
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