Gamma hedging has been in the headlines a lot lately, but what is it exactly? Intro The rise of Robinhooders and growth of retail options trading after COVID sparked a cottage industry of traders and analysts who analyze options market order flow to decipher how options market makers are positioned and take advantage of their […]
We’re coming off a shortened week with markets taking Friday, April 15 off in observance of Good Friday. There’s a lot to talk about this week with Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter (TWTR) and a record CPI print. Before we get to that, let’s assess the price action in markets this past week. US […]
Elon Musk has made an offer to buy social media giant Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) for about $43 billion. Musk made the announcement in a regulatory filing early Thursday, just a few weeks after amassing a 9.2% passive stake in Twitter to become its largest shareholder. Musk, the world’s wealthiest person with a fortune estimated at $259 billion, […]
A hostile takeover attempt provides incentives for CEOs and the board to manage companies while aligning with the interests of shareholders. If a company is run poorly or inefficiently, the value of its shares will fall relative to other stocks in the industry. At that point it can be rewarding for another company, an individual, […]
The US and NATO’s response to the Russia/Ukraine war has upended the post-WWII global order we’ve all gotten used to. And nobody really knows if that’s permanent or temporary. Many strategists and analysts are talking about how this reaction is accelerating deglobalization, where countries get more isolated and trade less in favor of onshoring […]
Continued weakness in broad market price action this week. While the price setup in the S&P 500 still leans bullish with the bull flag setting up on the daily chart, some air is definitely being taken out of the vicious “wall of worry” rally. Perhaps it’s par for the course at this point, but we’re […]
Like many other professionals, the world of finance and investing has a wide list of industry-specific lingo that can be difficult to decipher for everyday investors and traders. One of the most common terms you will come across on Wall Street is “basis points,” which is an important unit of measurement used to describe and […]
Technical trading is such a diverse method of trading that you really can’t pigeonhole it. There’s trend traders, mean reversion traders, breakout traders, and pullback traders. You can trade support and resistance levels, forecast volume and volatility, or even do technical analysis on the VIX or the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet (maybe that’s not a […]
So news out, Elon Musk has accumulated a 9.2% stake in Twitter. And when I first saw it I thought, okay, I had seen the headlines, I guess, it was last week where he was making posts about is a new platform needed, and interpreted that as a new social media platform. He […]
As one of the biggest brands in the world, you might think that owning shares in energy drinks company Red Bull is a great investment. It might shock you to know, then, that it is not possible to own Red Bull stock. Red Bull is a multinational company with a hand in several industries including […]
