How do Options Affect Stock Price?
When you purchase options contracts, you’re making an educated guess on how you expect the underlying stock in question to perform in the future. Maybe you’ve purchased a call option and are hoping the stock in question rises in price so that you can then purchase it at a discount. On the other hand, perhaps you’ve bought a put option [...]
What are the Benefits of Trading Stock Options?
What are the benefits of trading stock options? If you’re considering learning how to buy and sell options, you’re making a great decision. This investment style offers a host of advantages to traders. And in this complete guide, we’re going to cover them all. Leverage, low risk, diversification, flexibility, low capital requirements, and tax advantages are all reasons more and [...]
First Republic Bank Begins Road to Recovery With 50% Gain Tuesday: What Investors Need to Know Now
After a brutal last few trading sessions for First Republic Bank, it appears the road to recovery may be underway - as the stock is up 50% so far Tuesday. This came after the company witnessed share prices tank down to under $20 a share Monday for the first time in more than 5 years. While US regulators attempted [...]
Sterling Infrastructure Performance Outpacing Its Competitors
Sterling Infrastructure, Inc. (STRL:Nasdaq) is based in Woodlands, TX. The company was previously known as Sterling Construction and became public in 2001. Originally a bridge construction and highway company, Sterling has transformed itself as a civil construction company via acquisitions into an infrastructure services provider with a focus on providing U.S. customers with environmentally-responsible construction and services that specializes [...]
Part 5 of 7: Michael Burry’s New Holdings – WWW
Famed investor Michael Burry recently added 7 companies to his hedge fund’s portfolio (Scion Asset Management). He appears to be going all in on discretionary and industrial sectors as we look to a potential economic downturn on the horizon. We’ve already helped investors make sense of whether they should take long positions of their own in the first four [...]
Part 4 of 7: Michael Burry’s New Holdings – JD
Welcome to part 4 of our 7-part series analyzing Michael Burry’s latest additions to Scion Asset Management. We’ve already unpacked BKI, COHR, and BABA - three stocks that make up 41% of the portfolio. But today, we’re going to determine whether you should fade or follow Burry’s decision to take a long position in JD.com. The famed investor recently [...]