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Binary Options Trading Opportunities For March 11, 2016

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

During the day, we don’t get much in the way of economic announcements so we believe that this will be a technically driven trading session. With that in mind, we look at the following 3 scenarios. Volatility in the DAX The DAX initially shot higher, touching the €10,000 level, but turned back around during the […]

Post-Draghi Panic Leads To Bidding Scramble For 30 Year Paper

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

And so things are back to normal: following yesterday’s unexpectedly poor 10 Year auction, which tailed notably while the bid to cover dipped despite it trading at the -3.00% fails rate in repo, moments ago the Treasury sold $12 billion in a 30Y reopening of Cusip RQ3, at a yield of 2.72%, stopping through the […]

SPX, Mind Your Gap

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

I have allowed for the S&P 500 to rise to 2030 (bounce target: 2000-2030) before starting to even think about a revision of the ongoing intermediate bearish analysis. Today’s post-Draghi roll over is not a positive but it does not preclude the market from getting up to the SMA 200. Either way, there is a […]

Outside-The-Box Value

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

I love Value investing, but it’s not always so easy to execute. The ratios are all well known and easy to calculate, so the low hanging fruit tends to get quickly arbitraged out of existence as everybody and anybody pounces, often leaving behind stocks that have modest ratios because the companies are dogs whose stocks […]

Expedia Advances After Analyst Upgrades Shares On HomeAway Potential

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

The shares of online travel agency Expedia (EXPE) are rallying after Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson upgraded his rating on the stock to Overweight from Neutral. The company should benefit from its acquisition of HomeAway ,while its core website is “performing well,” the analyst stated. WHAT’S NEW: HomeAway’s EBITDA contribution to Expedia should exceed Expedia’s guidance […]

Looking For Value Among Dow Jones Stocks

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

If you are looking for value stocks in the Dow Jones, the following chart may help. Management teams don’t usually target dividend yields significantly higher than their peers, and a high dividend yield could be an indication that management expects the stock price to go higher. (Theoretically, management has more [inside] information than you). Boeing, […]

What Buffett And Seth Klarman Say About EBITDA

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Written by Hurricane Capital What Adjustments to Reported Earnings Do You Make? Here’s what Buffett and Munger had to say about EBITDA in the 2003 shareholder meeting. [When goodwill was required to be amortized,] we ignored amortization of goodwill and told our owners to ignore it, even though it was in GAAP [Generally Accepted Accounting Principles]. […]

McDonald’s To Take All-Day Breakfast To The Next Level

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

Suffice it to say McDonald’s all-day breakfast was a hit. The fast food chain, which struggled mightily from the end of 2013 through mid-2015, got a huge boost when it introduced an all-day breakfast menu last September, helping push a 5.7% same-store sales growth in the U.S. during the fourth quarter of 2015. Surprising as it is, customers weren’t […]

Draghi’s “Shock And Awe” Campaign Morphs Into “Shock And Aw Shucks”

Mar 10, 2016 Jeremy Parkinson Finance 0

In a series of stunning market reversals, ECB president Mario Draghi’s “Shock and Awe” campaign quickly morphed into “Shock and Aw Shucks”. Earlier this morning, Draghi pulled out a Bazooka Package that was supposed to sink the Euro and save the eurozone from the alleged evils of deflation. Draghi’s plan worked for all of 15 minutes. The market […]