The Super Terrific Happy Hour

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Max E., May 19, 2017.

  1. In to a $360 put for $19.00 (Friday expiry)
     
    #741     Jul 25, 2017
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  2. I was in the middle of this bar:
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    #742     Jul 25, 2017
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  3. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    I need to be in the middle of a bar today too.
     
    #743     Jul 25, 2017
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  4. Ugh...sooo many shares on the bid side!

    I expect this one to grind down like yesterday towards 3:45. Dunno which way it goes towards the bell.
     
    #744     Jul 25, 2017
  5. Max E.

    Max E.


    Its just me, but id bail on the CMG sort, it could easily snap back to 375 with a decent green bar, basically your just betting on earnings, it wont go down much further than this until then.
     
    #745     Jul 25, 2017
  6. It keeps testing my stop. This is definitely one that will lighten up on risk before the earnings release. Anyone who held short overnight got stopped out, so we should have less short interest than yesterday, and presumably bulls saw the same patterns I did yesterday for definitely not holding overnight, and they got in. So there should be more long shares to dump towards the end of the day...at least until institutional starts in at 3:45.
     
    #746     Jul 25, 2017
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  7. vanzandt

    vanzandt

    I dunno. I think it might be a good trade for him. Lets put the norovirus and mice aside for a minute.

    They guided down their same store sales last month... but I still think they are gonna come in lighter than forecast. Couple that with the Street's fears, that lofty PE, an activist investor thats going to demand righting the ship over continued growth near term.... its probably got a decent chance of paying off. It is a tough call though. Had the norovirus not hit and it was still at $400, $370 would be a no-brainer earnings trade imo.
    Tough one.....
     
    #747     Jul 25, 2017
  8. *sigh* stopped out at 18.80. No real harm done. The bid (what I base my stop on) probably came within .02 of my stop on 8 separate occasions. Finally pushed through 347.37.
     
    #748     Jul 25, 2017
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  9. Max E.

    Max E.

    I dont think its a bad short from 400 but i wouldnt be chasing it down here, next move is most likely to 375, unless you have padding its hard to hold through that.

     
    #749     Jul 25, 2017
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  10. I definitely wouldn't play the CMG earnings. The market is too pessimistic. Even an earnings miss could send this higher. The bulls are definitely ready to jump in and run with this one.
     
    #750     Jul 25, 2017
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