Oliver Renick
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- Sep 30, 2026
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Two trades that just happened in 'Magnificent Seven' stocks point to big gains ahead (opens the original)
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With the Nasdaq trading less than 1% off all-time highs from last week, options traders are placing some big bets on two big-tech that haven't made new highs since at least May: Alphabet and Microsoft. Options volume was more than 50% above the 30-day average in both names Wednesday as equities firmed following economic data in the morning that came in better than expected, including a softer inflation print. Even as bond prices rolled over in the afternoon, Alphabet held onto a 2.7% advance, an
Micron earnings hit Wall Street after the bell. Here's how options traders are positioned into the report (opens the original)
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In a free-wheeling press conference on the White House lawn on Tuesday, President Trump shared the microphone with at least $15 trillion worth of AI leaders including Jensen Huang, Sundar Pichai, Greg Brockman, Dario Amodei and Elon Musk, riffing on the future of what the President calls "super intelligence," promising an economic boom surpassing any in history.In the near term, the market needs to get through Micron earnings. The good news is options traders think it could be a slam dunk.Market
Higher rates are wreaking havoc on these two ETFs. Traders see one bouncing back (opens the original)
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The relentless surge in rates is breaking the back of two key macro trades that had been holding firm. Options traders are betting one will recover. Gold dropped 4% to the lowest since the first week of August, as the 10-year yield climbed to 5.3% and the 30-year yield touched 5.4%. High-yield corporate bonds extended a five-day rout to the lowest since April 2025, according to the iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG).Judging by options flows on Monday, traders think gold has the p
Bond liquidation wrecks small caps. Here's how bad some traders see it getting (opens the original)
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While the S&P 500 powers through rising bond yields and higher crude oil prices, one section of the U.S. stock market is falling behind: small caps. At the start of the month, the Russel 2000 was up 20% year to date, beating both the S&P 500's 13% gain and the Nasdaq-100's 17% advance. But September has meant big pain for small caps, with the Russell 2000 now only up 14% year to date, versus respective returns of 20% and 12% for the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100. The culprits seems clear: higher intere
As bond rout worsens, a trade Wall Street uses to replace them booms in popularity (opens the original)
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If the U.S. Treasury bond market has 99 problems, the surge in popularity of a particular type of options trade may be the one that gets talked about the least.The options strategy, commonly referred to as a "box spread," combines four options at two strike prices: one bullish call spread and one bearish put spread â mostly on the S&P 500 Index â to create a market-neutral position whose price at execution becomes cash received by the seller, or borrower, and whose fixed value at expiration
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