No pops today, but Denbury was active all day, as were a bunch of other oil & gas stocks ... OAS, RIG, SDRL, WFT, ESV, WLL, NE, NBR, PTEN, etc. The energy sector stocks have all crashed following crude, so they're active every day and have been for many months now. You can see the cycles in the market by what's active: tech, financials, energy, healthcare (specifically biotech). You have to pay attention.
Motorola Solutions Drop, 1 Minute View
This was the fast boys' play on Thursday ... Motorola Is Unable to Find Buyers After Months-Long Effort ... "market value of about $13.2 billion" ... news reader bots picked up on keyword "failed" ... you'd have to drop down to the tick chart to find your spot ... probably would have made a good play for those who weren't in a muzzer Russian borscht-induced stupor at the time.
StockTwits stream at the time ... there's OpenOutcrier again.
Lumber Liquidators Pop, 1 Minute View
Unusually active, probably wouldn't have made any money on it ... no time stamp on this from the EPA but supposedly what drove things...
Tesla's April Fool's Joke
Tesla shares get late boost on April Fool's press release
It's possible that some fast boys (and news reader bots) were a little burned by this ... I can see paying $188.50 and cutting it for a loss after figuring out why it was moving ... that could have happened to me if I hadn't been fast asleep on a hard Scandinavian bed at the time.
Teck Resources Pop, 1 Minute View
I do have the scanner results for Monday and it was screaming on old TCK ... would have to drop down to your tick charts to control risk on entry ... hard to say if risk reward would have been worth it in the end ... still, another good one to study if you're a fast boy.
Screenshot from StockTwits stream ... user "OpenOutcrier" often on the ball when things move, it seems.
Intel and Altera, 1 Minute View
Unusual activity late in the day ... news that Intel in talks to buy Altera ... again starting with the 15:32 bar you'd have to shift to your tick charts (not possible with a $9.99 datafeed) ... both good plays for fast boys. Intel on top, Altera on bottom.
Update: I looked at the scanner results from Friday and XLNX was actually as active as Intel ... if you had bought XLNX instead of INTC or ALTR (perfectly reasonable idea) you wouldn't have made any money. I'd love to see a tick chart for the last half hour of trading, but don't have the data.
HOT Heats Up, 1 Minute View
Unusual activity in Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (HOT) ... scanner beeped at 12:20 PM ... that 13:45 high should read $86.76 on chart (typo) ... fairly weak into the close so about half the gains taken back, but still should have been a good play for those on the ball. There's no news ... someone called SunTrust apparently said HOT worth $100+ as takeover, but I haven't seen the report, not sure if that's what drove this.
Banshee -- Season One
Thanks to my Twitter buddy, JackInFlorida, and others for recommending Banshee ... I enjoyed the first season. The story is a little dumb (ex-con becomes small-town sheriff), and they try to make it more believable by basing it in Amish country (ya know, no cellphones, computers, etc.), but it's still silly.
And the violence, oh my god, it's just over the top. It's like X-rated violence, pornographic violence. Every episode has at least one extended fight scene or gun battle which ends with everyone covered with vast amounts of blood, dripping from heads and mouths. It's gory, not for the squeamish or sensitive.
But it's also funny. Lots of clever lines and amusing situations that are well done. It's campy, which balances out the ultra-violence. The lead male isn't going to win any acting awards, but the lead actress isn't bad, a La Femme Nikita type, ya know, eastern European bones. The villains are all good, older guys who are still ripped (they're not Americans, that's why), which is nice to see. Remember my big objection to House of Cards is seeing pudgy, effeminate Kevin Spacey playing a tough guy. Anyway, give it a try if you haven't seen it ... here are my selected screenshots.
Kraft Buyout, 2 Minute View
Thinly traded after hours but the fast boys able to get in well under $80. Risk a buck to make six?
Biotech HOLDRs, the Long View
I'm old enough to remember when the Biotech HOLDRs came out in late 1999 ... I guess they're a Van Eck product now. The most liquid biotech ETF is IBB, followed by XBI.
Merrill Lynch Introduces Single Security Representing 20 Biotech Stocks
Monday, November 22, 1999 05:59 PM
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated today announced the launch of Biotech HOLDRs(SM), a new security representing undivided beneficial ownership interest in the common stock of 20 specified companies involved in various segments of the biotechnology industry.
Today, 4.5 million Biotech HOLDRs were priced for initial sale to the public at an aggregate offering price in excess of $490 million. Trading of Biotech HOLDRs begins on Tuesday, November 23, 1999, on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol "BBH." Newly issued Biotech HOLDRs will be available on a continuous basis.