Nvidia $NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$ just reported earnings on Wednesday after close. At a glance, FY25 Q2 non-GAAP EPS $0.68 beats by $0.04, revenue $30.04B (+122.4%) beats by $1.31B. Data Center revenue $26.3B, up 154% from year ago & 16% from Q1. Q3 guidance revenue $32.5B vs expect $31.75B. Initiates $50B buyback.  Stock falls more than 6.8%, which shows that marlets are always behaving irrationally. Hence I would like to highlight an important metric that is overlooked. Price to Earnings Growth Ratio Oftentimes, investors look at the Price to Earnings ratio of a stock and think that the stock is expensive. NVDA metrics from Finviz One good source I use for researchIng stocks is looking at Finviz, and search the stock ticker symbol. I

Today let me share with you a options strategy on how to own 100 shares for very little cost. Suppose if you think interest rates will be coming down soon, then bond prices will rise. One way to go bullish on bonds is to trade the iShares 20yr+ ETF ($iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF(TLT)$ ).  As of Thursday August 22, TLT last closing price was $97.75. To buy 100 shares, it will cost $97.75 x 100 = $9,775. For some traders, that is a huge cost of investment.  Let me show you a more cost effective way instead, using a bullish synthetic option strategy. A bullish synthetic option spread involves buying a call option and selling a put option at the same strike price and expiration date. This option trade is equivalent to owning a 100 share

Geovax soars on Mpox news recently. This is often one of the tricks of the market maker, to make use of the news to lure retail buyers in. Let’s play a game and see if you understand how price action works. If you see a stock price going parabolic and almost vertical, do you think after that it will go: A. Higher  B. Lower

Let's explore an Options Strategy known as a Bullish Synthetic spread, which allows an options trader to control 100 shares for less capital compared to buying 100 shares of a stock. Options chain for AAPL expiring on Apr 19 Suppose one is bullish on Apple, and Apple is currently trading at $181 (as of the time of this writing). If you want to buy 100 shares, the capital required (not including commissions) is $181 x 100 = $18,100. For every $1 rise in the stock of Apple, the gain on the position is $100, and vice versa. Let's explore a strategy that allows you to control 100 shares of Apple for less capital, and that is done by a Bullish Synthetic spread, by entering a Call option on a buy leg, and a Put option on a sell leg. First select an options expiration, in which I have selected Ap

A recent article on SCMP revealed that pessimism in Chinese stocks has been the highest amongst foreign investors.  The recent fund managers survey by Bank of America Global Research found that fund managers are now more net short on Chinese equities compared to the previous three months, and also are more bullish on the Japanese market.  BofA Global Research FMS survey Indeed the Chinese CSI 300 index, which comprises of 300 top companies listed on Shanghai & Shenzhen Exchanges is now down 4.5% in 2024. Over the past 6 months, it is down 14.3%, and past one year down 20.7% Stocks like Alibaba, perhaps a hot favourite among investors here have suffered greatly. Year-to-date Baba is down 12.2%, after paring back some losses on Friday afternoon due to monthly options expiration

A hypothetical portfolio Suppose if I had only US$10,000 to invest, what stocks would I pick? Well we could just easily say that we choose only the Magnificent Seven (M7), made up of Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon & Tesla. However that would mean that our stocks are heavily concentrated in technology, communication services and consumer discretionary and would result in a highly unbalanced portfolio that might leave us to quite some downside risk should the market crash, as most of these stocks have similar correlations in price movements. Let’s say we are only allowed to pick 2 of the M7, so I would choose Alphabet & Amazon. Alphabet is the parent company of Google, YouTube and are used by millions, if not billions worldwide. Alphabet’s EPS is expected to grow at

2023 was better than expected, as we headed into the year fearing that a recession would happen.However as ChatGPT played out at the beginning of the year, technology stocks like Meta & Microsoft started gaining traction. Recall that in 2022, Meta was one of the most hated stocks, that advertisers were not spending their dollars, and people were calling that it was the end of Meta. In terms of realised loss, the worse was Disney as I decided to cut losses and exit my position in the house of mouse. Rate of return as of December stands at 56%. @TigerStars $Amazon.com(AMZN)$  $Walt Disney(DIS)$ 

The S&P 500 closed at 4,594.64 points on Friday December 2nd, 2023 to advance 0.77% for the week and notches its best close of 2023. A few reasons for the strong move in the broad market index this week, as Cyber Monday that followed last week’s Black Friday had set new records for consumer spending. On Wednesday, the second estimate of U.S. Q3 GDP growth was revised to 5.2%, surpassing the previous estimate of 4.9% and stronger than the rise of 2.1% in Q2. On Thursday, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation guage, core PCE advanced 3.5% Y/Y in October and cooling from September’s 3.7%, while PCE gained 3.0% in line with estimates and retreating from 3.4% in September. On Friday, Fed chair Jerome Powell was speaking at a fireside chat at Spelman College, and in his opening remarks h

Price action on Yum China (which is the China business of KFC, Pizza Hut in China) has created a bear trap to lure in retail traders who are thinking of shorting YUMC. Price action has taken out stop losses of retail who have placed stop losses below previous swing low, and has formed with a bullish green hammer on Thursday's trading session.  If follow up price action on Friday (Dec 1st) can push above previous close, enter a buy stop limit at around $43.25. Attach a stop loss of $40.25 if the price breaks below.  Morningstar carries a fair value of $80 for Yum China. @TigerStars  @CaptainTiger  $Yum China Holdings, Inc.(Y