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C: Pre-earnings run pattern ahead of Monday reportCitigroup has a pre earnings run pattern which tends to be caused by Pro Traders setting up to take advantage of the earnings reaction. The company will report its 1st quarter earnings on Monday. C had a reactionary gap up at open caused by the JPM gap today. It formed an indecision day candle rapidly. The early gap could interfere with the technical patterns for the report release day.
Goldman Sachs Earnings Pop? Hey guys, quick disclaimer; I am a novice technician but I'm here to learn!
I'm playing some $210 call options for Goldman Sachs earnings.
Goldman to me, has more upside potential in the financials vs. JPM or BAC. And with the onslaught of IPOs it should be a forgone conclusion their revenue/earnings should be boosted in that environment. The SPY appears to want to make another attempt at all time highs so I've shifted my view to GS for a catchup trade with GS.
Feel free to give me your thoughts on the trade or the chart analysis.
Thanks!
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JPM: Dark Pool rotation against buybacks ahead of earningsJPM kicks off the official earnings season this week with a report due out Friday. All attention will be drawn to these early banking industry reports that will set the tone for the entire 1st quarter earnings season. The stock has had buyback activity recently while some Dark Pools lowered their holdings. The chart shows patterns of Dark Pool rotation.
Warning signal for U.S stocks? Pay close attention to XLF today (FOMC) - Although it is currently testing support there's an option for a false break signal here.
If XLF won't close in green today after Powell's message, this can be a trigger for another short term wave (and potentially even a strong one) in U.S stock markets.
Pair Trading Idea JPM/PRUApplying some of the most popular indicators on the pair JPM/PRU shows an interesting pattern. While PRU NYSE:PRU has been clearly outperforming JPM JPM since several weeks, a trend reversal seems to occur. JPM might catch up in the coming days and weeks. The daily and the weekly RSI (1st indicator at the top "Ultimate RSI Multi Timeframe"), the Wave Trend Oscillator (2nd one) and the ultimate MACD oscillator (3rd one from the top) reversed recently from their lower ranges. The Squeeze Momentum Indicator (at the bottom) shows a nice divergence, which is also observable on the RSI.
The price action confirmed the reversal in the last days. The setup is worth being given a shot: Short PRU, Long JPM. The strategy is market-neutral and is profitable when JPM starts to outperform PRU.
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ETRADE BANKRUPTCY.? ILLEGALLY PLAYING WITH MARGIN ACCOUNTSWe just heard a rumor today that supposedly came from an eTrade Employee / High Ranking Executive that the company has started deceptively and unlawfully manipulating trading accounts due to extreme losses within thousands of eTrade accounts.
What we heard...
AFTER A STOCK IS PURCHASED ON MARGIN, with a 25% Margin Requirement, days, if not weeks later, the account holder will receive an email thats says... "SPECIAL MARGIN MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENT CHANGE"
Within that email, eTrade bumps up the margin requirement on your trade from 25% to 45% and in many cases, we were told much higher.
After the account holder meets the so called fraudulent margin requirement, and then sells the stock...
eTrade then sends the account holder another email that says..."SPECIAL MARGIN MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENT CHANGE" and lowers the Margin Rate back to 25% - AFTER THE STOCK HAS BEEN SOLD BY THE ACCOUNT HOLDER
The SEC and DOJ needs to investigate eTrade, its Deceptive Business Practices, its Fraudulent Accounting Methods and its Books.
If you have an eTrade account, we suggest closing your eTrade account and transferring out to maybe Fidelity, Schwab or InteractiveBrokers.
Also, judging by the eTrade weekly chart, the stock looks ready to crash!
The stock is trading under the cloud and every indicator is negative.
Support might be somewhere around $30 but if it keeps sinking, and breaks down below $25, look out below!
On 2/5/2019, TD Ameritrade stock tanked...eTrade could be next to tank!
JPM: Potential 3-Drive formation for -20% downsideI don't particularly think the CAT, WHR and NVDA results bear well for the market nor the economy in general and JPM is probably one of the biggest proxy out there. Recent price action has stalled at the 50-days moving average and a "support-turned-resistance" level; I personally do like buy/short breakouts/downs which had retested prior support-turned-resistance and if we extrapolate the 3rd leg of this potential 3-Drive formation, it is a -20% downside objective.
JPM - Bearish-neutral Iron CondorStock rally through till early 2018. Choppy price action with range-bound price through remainder of 2018 indicates large volume of shares exchanging hands (in other words, for a better mental picture, larger holders off-loading to more interested but smaller buyers). Expectation is neutral price discovery, with earnings report in January catalyzing subsequent direction move, which is typically bearish/downward with such price action. For now, price is attempting to find a fair value, and as such a bearish-neutral bias is bet on here.
85/90/115/120 JAN19 IRON CONDOR @ 0.67 CREDIT
General plan:
Roll if necessary & if possible mainly to reduce risk, expecially in this case due to earnings report date before expiration
Target maximum profit, unless significant profit appears early.
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