Take Profits of up to 230% on Apple Puts
The iPhone maker entered 2025 as a wildly popular stock, but became very expensive on traditional valuation metrics, despite clear threats to its business model from U.S.-China trade conflict.
The iPhone maker entered 2025 as a wildly popular stock, but became very expensive on traditional valuation metrics, despite clear threats to its business model from U.S.-China trade conflict.
Dominion is a regulated utility holding company with assets concentrated in the state of Virginia. It owns interests in gas and electric utilities, a nuclear facility, renewable natural gas plants, and renewable energy sources.
The smart money, which is often early, has been dumping this stock. So have the top traders in Congress.
Monday was a shock for the artificial intelligence (AI) theme that has dominated investors’ attention for the past two years.
Our bearish trade on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) got off to a great start. Investors finally woke up to this risk, driving a huge decline in AAPL in yesterday’s session – long after Congressional traders recognized this risk, and sold in late 2024!
One of our option positions is in the money and is approaching expiration this afternoon, so it’s time to sell.
Today, we recommend a bearish trade on a household name. It’s surged higher despite tough competition, low switching costs, and slowing growth. Plus, we found a catalyst for a potential earnings miss when it reports financial results on January 21.
Back in November, we viewed Trump’s pick of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run HHS as strong evidence that PepsiCo (PEP) could fall substantially into late 2024 and early 2025.
Today, we recommend our second bearish trade on the most popular, widely held stock in the world.
Microsoft is a close partner and financial supporter of OpenAI’s Chat GPT. Microsoft uses Chat GPT in applications like the Bing search engine and Copilot for Office. So far, the adoption of these AI-assisted applications has been underwhelming.