Every year the calendar flips and the financial news cycle continues. The articles showing top picks and strategies for the year can provide insight and some great performers. Spoiler: This isn’t that. It appears as if the trends established in 2020 will carry over into 2021. There may be some pressure on technology due to elevated valuations, however as a long term investor, technology can’t be…
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Spotlight Pick: Schrödinger It’s become clear that technology is the the main contributor towards solving inefficiencies in todays world. When there is a problem that needs solving, software is often where we turn. Innovative companies may be expensive when looking at traditional metrics, however; we believe the potential of some should not be ignored. Schrödinger is a name in particular which we…
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When scanning the market for opportunities, we ideally like to stay with names we know. Splunk checks a box there. This is simply just a name we watch and will trade. We like how quickly this stock flattened out and believe its strength in Thursday and Friday’s session vs the Nasdaq will translate to a move into the 170’s in the upcoming weeks. Splunk’s quarterly earnings disappointed and that is…
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In response to last week's muted response to tech earning in markets, the current narrative that Tech earnings were incredibly underwhelming rings quite hollow. From a fundamental point of view, there are no issues with large-cap tech companies. All of them showed strong sales, strong profitability, and strong expense management. Going into Thursday, it just wasn’t helpful that tech shares surged…
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Earnings Long Strangles Or Straddles Perhaps the most popular way to trade company earnings announcements using options is to purchase Long Strangle or Long Straddle contract(s) and close them out at the optimal time: Right before the actual earnings event. Earnings calendars are crucial to planning out options contract expiration dates! Using a trusted earnings calendar, pick a stock whose…
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SPY Yearly performance No promises or anything (and remember, this isn't financial advice), but if you think about things that would influence a pop in the SP500 (of which there are a good amount), and the odds of those things happening (which are pretty good), it seems likely that bulls are going to have their way. Most investors right now are focused on the stimulus bill and forgetting about the…
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Hey everyone, We've got a bunch of new features in the pipeline, and we recently released one that unblocks some other features: Resetting your account. If you don't have any open positions, the reset button on your profile page becomes active and you can reset your account back to $100,000 and without any positions. When you reset it we're not just deleting everything, it just gets archived so…
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Value Machine Hey everyone, This is our kick-off post of the blog. We're hoping to have a steady feed of opinions, news, and other materials worthy of reading. If you're interested in contributing, send an email over to james@valuemachine.io. Stay tuned : )
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