PPI, Buybacks, and a 10 Percent Chance of Doom
Dear Trader, Mark's going live today at 10 AM ET and he's bringing Voz back on. Two things on the agenda: First, the three stories below: a wholesale inflation print that's quietly worse than the headline, a Treasury buyback the bond market shrugged off in about an hour, and an Anthropic researcher putting a number […]
The Bill Came Due for LIV Golf
Dear Trader, Voz is sitting in with Mark on State of the Market this morning at 10 AM ET, and the three stories below give them plenty to argue about. The 10-year is near 4.8%, Brent is over $98, and next week's Fed meeting is starting to look like a hike instead of a pause. […]
Live Today: the Team’s 8 Picks, Then the One That Matters
Dear Trader, Mark's going live today at 10:00 AM ET with 8 stock picks from the Option Pit trading team. Here's the list… The loves: Tim's got a Wall Street bank that keeps printing money no matter what the 10-year Treasury does. Mark's on a trading app that went public last year and is quietly […]
162,000 Jobs and the Hawks Smell Blood
Dear Trader, Diesel set an all-time record yesterday, and harvest season hasn't even started. Two months before the midterms, the fuel that moves freight and heats houses costs more than it did at the 2022 peak, and the refineries are already running flat out. Then the jobs number landed this morning at 162,000 against a […]
Did Godzilla Just Sneak Back Into the Yen Market?
Dear Trader, Mark Sebastian and Tim Colby are going live today at 10 AM ET, and the three stories below are the agenda. Tim's been on the yen carry trade for weeks, so he'll take the Thursday spike and whether Tokyo actually stepped in or the market just front-ran a September hike. Mark gets Broadcom, […]
Hiring Is Slowing and Nobody’s Flinching
Dear Trader, Mark's got the mic this morning and he's roped Voz into joining him. Between the two of them they’ll cover the three stories below plus whatever else lands between now and then. There's plenty to work with. Dell told the world it booked a record pile of AI server orders and the stock […]
Mark’s Live Today With Eight Tickers
Dear Trader, Mark and Tim Mark's live today at 10 AM ET, and he's taking three stories head-on and running eight loves and leaves from the desk. Here’s some of the highlights: Somebody's buying the most polarizing car company on the board, and somebody else is walking away from a monthly dividend name a lot […]
Mark and Tim have 10 names at 10:30
Dear Trader, Mark's got Tim Colby with him at 10 AM ET, and they're working through the three stories below plus the 10 names the team put on the board. Two picks each from Mark, Tim, Andrew, Licia, and Hans. Mark loves a stock the index funds got forced to buy last week and hates […]
The S&P, the charts, and Licia at 10
Good morning, {$esp_first_name|default:Trader}. Mark goes live at 10 a.m. ET today for State of the Market, and he's not flying solo. Licia is riding shotgun with charts pulled up, ready to show you exactly where she's seeing setups in this tape. The agenda is stacked. Mark will break down why the S&P is still holding […]
What if Earnings Day is the Trap
Every quarter, the same thing happens. A retail trader pulls up Nvidia the afternoon of earnings. He loads up on weekly calls. Maybe a lottery ticket put option or two for balance. He's convinced he found an edge because the stock "always moves" after earnings. Then the bell rings. The stock moves exactly like he […]