Facebook, Inc. operates as a social networking company worldwide. It provides a set of development tools and application programming interfaces that enable developers to integrate with Facebook to create mobile and Web applications aka: it owns the Social Media space. Every single day I watch 4 stocks using the Ichimoku Cloud and have been very successful trading...
NextEra Energy, Inc.,with its subsidiaries, generates, transmits, distributes, and sells electric energy in the United States and Canada. The company generates electricity from gas, oil, solar, coal, petroleum coke, and nuclear sources and this sector has been on fire lately. Today we saw a trader bought 4434 NEE June 100 Calls for $.55. This gives the buyer of...
Transocean Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides offshore contract drilling services for oil and gas wells across the world. If we look at the chart, every single matrix using the Ichimoku Cloud tells me that the stock is headed lower. It is trading under the Ichimoku Cloud, it is under the 9 and 26 period moving average, and both the past and future...
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. provides atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment, and services worldwide. The company operates through four segments: Merchant Gases, Tonnage Gases, Electronics and Performance Materials, and Equipment and Energy. Today a trader bought 10,000 APD Jan 2015 Calls for $4.10. Let breakdown...
Stillwater Mining Company engages in developing, extracting, processing, smelting, refining, and marketing palladium, platinum. It also explores for all different types of metals such as: nickel, copper, gold, and silver ores. There are over 8,700 stocks that are publicly traded and 4,200 stock with options. We have seen very bullish Call buyers over the last 2...
Linn Energy, LLC, an independent oil and natural gas company, engages in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties. I have traded this stock before and made money and in general I like to stick with stocks that I have made money before on. Today, we saw an institutional buy 9,000 LINE April 28 Puts for $.70. This trader has the right but...
Allergan, Inc. operates as a multi-specialty health care company primarily in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia Pacific. This stock has been on fire and is breaking through the 52 Week highs. Today we saw a very interesting trade where a trader bought 1000 AGN July 140 Calls for $5.84 and then sold 1000 July 115 Puts to reduce the cost of...
Twitter, Inc. is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time. It provides various products for users. The stock has been very strong this morning and I want to put on a risk vs reward trade as the stock breaks the Ichimoku Cloud on the 5 minute bar. I was trying to buy stock at $54.90, but chased it up to $55.10. I think TWTR has...
Encana Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in exploration for, development, production, and marketing of natural gas, oil, and natural gas liquids in Canada and the United States. This is not the first time a trader has taken a bullish trade in ECA and it seems that this trader has been dead-on and they are stopping anytime soon. Today a...
YPF SOCIEDAD ANONIMA, an energy company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) in Argentina. I have traded this stock before in the past, but I currently do not have a long position. Today we saw a trader buy 2,000 on the Jan 2015 30-40 Bull Call Spread for $2.85 per 1 lot or a cash...
Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the retail of home furnishings. It provides bedroom, dining, upholstery, home office, and media furniture products and has over 2,100 full-time employees in the Services sector. Today, we saw a trader sell their March 55 Calls that they were long and buy the April 65 Calls. This is a...
The banking stocks have been on fire lately and even though the KRE trades almost 3 Million Shares in a day, I think it is headed higher. Today we saw a trader buy 10,000 plus KRE April 44 Calls for $.31 which was a $300,000 investment. The investment seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the total return...
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation provides various financial products and services worldwide and the stock has been under performing the stock market, but I think it is time to rip to the upside. Today we saw a trader buy almost 10,000 BK Sep 35 Calls for $1.08 which was over 6.0 times the normal volume in a day and control over 1 Million Shares of Stock. ...
Lear Corporation manufactures, assembles, and supplies automotive seating, electrical distribution systems, and related components primarily to original equipment manufacturers across the world. I watch for Unusual Options Activity and I saw a HUGE Call buyer of the June 90 Calls for $2.10. Then I looked and the Open Interest of this line was over 51,000. This...
I wrote a set-up in AAPL for a Short at $544.43 with a $556.21 Stop and I got picked apart for wanting to get Short AAPL. Well, the next day the stock rallied, but it could not get above the top of the Ichimoku Cloud. If I have a $12 stop then I have the following Targets: Target #1: 50% of the Stop: $538.43 Target #2: 100% of the Stop: $532.43 If I want I can...
I drew a "M" pattern using the Ichimoku Cloud on the 4 hour Bar and I think that the $EUR/USD could break to the upside and test old Resistance which is now the new support at 1.35582. The EUR/USD was in a clear Bull channel, but then the channel broke. It has now moved sideways, but I think that it could be about to break to the downside. If the EUR/USD break...
The difference of what anyone in this world is worth is how much a buyer is willing to pay versus how much a seller is willing to sell it for. I think it is funny we often hear the word's "Vale Stock," "Growth Stock," and "Valuation. Simple and easy, there are more buyers than sellers and the stock is headed one way, HIGHER. So, drawing a simple Fib Extention,...
All I know about trading forex is that that the Ichimoku Cloud works very well. I am a trader, not an economist so I do not care about policies, global issues, all I care about is a supply vs demand curve. With that being said, the AUD/CAD looks like a Short Set-up using the 4 Hour Bar. The Trade: Short the AUD/CAD at .995 STOP: .999 Target #1: .993 Target #2:...