by Alpha | Jan 18, 2017 | Market Update
From January 6th
The last standard targets on our books for NFLX are 135.78-140.41, but we should use a tight stop if want to participate on that upside, initial concern should be a break under 1341.43 with continuation under 129.10. Chart here (link) and here (link).
NFLX won its place as a core, so again if trading the last squiggles higher first one has to set stops and respect them.
January 18th
With a high at 135.45 we must assume that $NFLX has topped in some degree, so we must focus on support levels during and after earnings. Initial support should be set at 108.45 or .50 retrace for this blue count, chart here (link) alternative support is 116.84, chart here (link).
NFLX has always been a conundrum, so inability to break under 123.06 should be something worrisome for traders selling calls or over trading puts. Chart here (link).
Weekly count for 153, here (link) and monthly count for 156 here (link).
On the upside, with no bigger retrace, at a minimum we want $NFLX at 146. We are watching support levels to average down while we are long.
Some of the Trades that we placed in the room into earning, note majority of our bias is long going into earning…
Sold Put Credit spreads on June 100/90
Sold Put Credit Spreads on Jan Week 4 110/100
Bought calendar 111 for 40 cents (hedge)
Long 130 Calls Jan Monthly (Earning trade)
Sold Call credit Spread 150/160
Sold Strangle 146/115
by Alpha | Jan 13, 2017 | Pre-Market
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Thiel arrives at Trump Tower for the meeting of tech executives attended by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos among Kevin Hagen for The New York Times His critics demanded to know how someone who immigrated from Frankfurt to Cleveland as a child could support a campaign so bristling with intolerance.
Over a dinner of duck and chocolate dessert a surprisingly sybaritic meal for a man who admits he is prone to weird diets Thiel shows again and again how he likes to issues to see if conventional wisdom is wrong a technique he calls Pyrrhonian skepticism.
Savoring his victory dismissing those who think the way to deal with vile and invasive stories is to grow a thicker skin Thiel dressed as Hulk Hogan for the and annual costume party last month hosted on Long Island by the Mercer family who were big Trump donors.
We have written at great length about his claims and our opinion backed up by detailed and thorough evidence that email existed long before Ayyadurai created any software.
Defamation claims like this can force independent media companies to capitulate and shut down due to mounting legal costs.
If freedom of expression and the press is to actually mean something it needs to be protected not stomped on with baseless lawsuits that silence independent voices and opinions.
Part of the project would focus on its storytelling formats such as Live and Instant Articles Facebook stated Wednesday.
In light of Buzzfeed and recent epic failure publishing a hoax report from about Trump being compromised by Russia credibility is also on the line because it widely disseminated that fake story in its news feed prompting the Poytner to save face by condemning the publication.
As reported mainstream media and Facebook are scrambling to remain relevant after losing all credibility attacking Trump leading up to the election and are doubling down in their attempts to invert reality to serve their fake narrative.
Not included in this payment total are or businesses such as FaceBook Twitter Linkedin Tencent YouTube Yahoo NetEase Pandora Radio Google Search Baidu Google Maps Gmail Instagram Amazon eBay Alibaba Priceline Expedia Salesforce and Other Enterprise Software Ride Sharing Apps AirBnB and many other services which monetize independently of the App Store.
As the install base of iOS increases and as users hire the devices to do more and spend more time with them the virtuous cycle of value creation will continue and accelerate.
The Apple Watch the AirPods Pencil and possible new wearables point toward a future where the iPhone is a hub to a mesh of personal devices.
Thiel arrives at Trump Tower for the meeting of tech executives attended by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos among Kevin Hagen for The New York Times His critics demanded to know how someone who immigrated from Frankfurt to Cleveland as a child could support a campaign so bristling with intolerance.
Over a dinner of duck and chocolate dessert a surprisingly sybaritic meal for a man who admits he is prone to weird diets Thiel shows again and again how he likes to issues to see if conventional wisdom is wrong a technique he calls Pyrrhonian skepticism.
Savoring his victory dismissing those who think the way to deal with vile and invasive stories is to grow a thicker skin Thiel dressed as Hulk Hogan for the and annual costume party last month hosted on Long Island by the Mercer family who were big Trump donors.
We will be collaborating with news organizations to develop products learning from journalists about ways we can be a better partner and working with publishers and educators on how we can equip people with the knowledge they need to be informed readers in the digital age.
We regularly visit newsrooms to learn and share and host journalists from around the world to discuss best practices so that able to discover information on our platform distribute work on Facebook and engage and build audiences around their reporting.
We recently announced improvements on our platform to further reduce the spread of news hoaxes including ways for people to report them more easily and new efforts to disrupt the financial incentives for spammers.
The chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has previously said he considers Facebook a technology entity but the social network has faced more questions over the past months about how what it shows on its site affects its roughly billion members.
In an interview about the Facebook Journalism Project Fidji Simo a director of product at the company said heard loud and clear over the last year that there are questions about our role in this ecosystem.
Publishers have long considered Facebook a kind of frenemy increasingly relying on the social network to spread their stories but often wary of depending too much on one medium to reach an audience.
Through an unusual financial arrangement they represented a group that had recently come to own a controlling stake in the company and they had a plan to turn BitTorrent into as Delamar was fond of saying publicly next.
Even as ad revenue was apparently declining Delamar spent much of his time trying to convince Hollywood producers that BitTorrent could deliver massive audiences and profits for their creative work.
David Chao the remaining venture investor reportedly stepped in to pay the note assuming control of their shares and affording three board seats to DCM.
by Alpha | Jan 12, 2017 | Pre-Market
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Thiel arrives at Trump Tower for the meeting of tech executives attended by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos among Kevin Hagen for The New York Times His critics demanded to know how someone who immigrated from Frankfurt to Cleveland as a child could support a campaign so bristling with intolerance.
Over a dinner of duck and chocolate dessert a surprisingly sybaritic meal for a man who admits he is prone to weird diets Thiel shows again and again how he likes to issues to see if conventional wisdom is wrong a technique he calls Pyrrhonian skepticism.
Savoring his victory dismissing those who think the way to deal with vile and invasive stories is to grow a thicker skin Thiel dressed as Hulk Hogan for the and annual costume party last month hosted on Long Island by the Mercer family who were big Trump donors.
We have written at great length about his claims and our opinion backed up by detailed and thorough evidence that email existed long before Ayyadurai created any software.
Defamation claims like this can force independent media companies to capitulate and shut down due to mounting legal costs.
If freedom of expression and the press is to actually mean something it needs to be protected not stomped on with baseless lawsuits that silence independent voices and opinions.
Part of the project would focus on its storytelling formats such as Live and Instant Articles Facebook stated Wednesday.
In light of Buzzfeed and recent epic failure publishing a hoax report from about Trump being compromised by Russia credibility is also on the line because it widely disseminated that fake story in its news feed prompting the Poytner to save face by condemning the publication.
As reported mainstream media and Facebook are scrambling to remain relevant after losing all credibility attacking Trump leading up to the election and are doubling down in their attempts to invert reality to serve their fake narrative.
Not included in this payment total are or businesses such as FaceBook Twitter Linkedin Tencent YouTube Yahoo NetEase Pandora Radio Google Search Baidu Google Maps Gmail Instagram Amazon eBay Alibaba Priceline Expedia Salesforce and Other Enterprise Software Ride Sharing Apps AirBnB and many other services which monetize independently of the App Store.
As the install base of iOS increases and as users hire the devices to do more and spend more time with them the virtuous cycle of value creation will continue and accelerate.
The Apple Watch the AirPods Pencil and possible new wearables point toward a future where the iPhone is a hub to a mesh of personal devices.
Thiel arrives at Trump Tower for the meeting of tech executives attended by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos among Kevin Hagen for The New York Times His critics demanded to know how someone who immigrated from Frankfurt to Cleveland as a child could support a campaign so bristling with intolerance.
Over a dinner of duck and chocolate dessert a surprisingly sybaritic meal for a man who admits he is prone to weird diets Thiel shows again and again how he likes to issues to see if conventional wisdom is wrong a technique he calls Pyrrhonian skepticism.
Savoring his victory dismissing those who think the way to deal with vile and invasive stories is to grow a thicker skin Thiel dressed as Hulk Hogan for the and annual costume party last month hosted on Long Island by the Mercer family who were big Trump donors.
We will be collaborating with news organizations to develop products learning from journalists about ways we can be a better partner and working with publishers and educators on how we can equip people with the knowledge they need to be informed readers in the digital age.
We regularly visit newsrooms to learn and share and host journalists from around the world to discuss best practices so that able to discover information on our platform distribute work on Facebook and engage and build audiences around their reporting.
We recently announced improvements on our platform to further reduce the spread of news hoaxes including ways for people to report them more easily and new efforts to disrupt the financial incentives for spammers.
The chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has previously said he considers Facebook a technology entity but the social network has faced more questions over the past months about how what it shows on its site affects its roughly billion members.
In an interview about the Facebook Journalism Project Fidji Simo a director of product at the company said heard loud and clear over the last year that there are questions about our role in this ecosystem.
Publishers have long considered Facebook a kind of frenemy increasingly relying on the social network to spread their stories but often wary of depending too much on one medium to reach an audience.
Through an unusual financial arrangement they represented a group that had recently come to own a controlling stake in the company and they had a plan to turn BitTorrent into as Delamar was fond of saying publicly next.
Even as ad revenue was apparently declining Delamar spent much of his time trying to convince Hollywood producers that BitTorrent could deliver massive audiences and profits for their creative work.
David Chao the remaining venture investor reportedly stepped in to pay the note assuming control of their shares and affording three board seats to DCM.
by Alpha | Jan 11, 2017 | Pre-Market
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A new report from Greenpeace has found that Apple Facebook and Google as well as relative newcomer Switch are leading the way when it comes to building a renewably powered internet.
Thanks to the leadership and advocacy of companies like Apple Google Facebook and Switch we are seeing the tech industry make major strides toward powering the internet with clean energy Gary Cook Greenpeace senior IT analyst said in a statement.
Apple Google and Facebook have all joined the a group made up of some of the world largest businesses committed to percent renewable energy.
We learned that when testing battery life on Mac notebooks Consumer Reports uses a hidden Safari setting for developing web sites which turns off the browser cache.
After we asked Consumer Reports to run the same test using normal user settings they told us their MacBook Pro systems consistently delivered the expected battery life.
These days if I interested in battery life tests I go to AnandTech or Ars Technica where they show their work explain their methods and often take whatever time is required to get real answers before hitting publish.
due to safety concerns from drivers and technology data collection and pressure from existing taxi companies.
At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Plouffe will help lead a bipartisan policy board alongside Ken Mehlman who formerly ran Republican National Committee.
Together Plouffe and Mehlman will announce members of the policy board and find opportunities to work with governments Zuckerberg said.
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They will ensure that the privacy of electronic communications is protected by up to date and effective rules and that European institutions will apply the same high standards that we expect from our Member States.
Věra Jourová Commissioner for Justice Consumers and Gender Equality said The European data protection legislation adopted last year sets high standards for the benefit of both EU citizens and companies.
With the presentation of the proposals today the Commission is calling on the European Parliament and the Council to work swiftly and to ensure their smooth adoption by May when the General Data Protection Regulation will enter into application.
are deeply proud of our unique contributions to discovery science and technology that are driving progress across business and society and opening the new era of cognitive.
This substantial commitment to unlocking new technologies is what has long propelled IBM into new markets allowing it to create value for clients and opportunity for its employees including the Americans the company has pledged to hire over the next four years.
In the area of cognitive computing and artificial intelligence IBM inventors patented more than inventions that help machines learn reason and efficiently process diverse data types while interacting with people in natural and familiar ways.
All Bitcoin transactions take place on a global financial ledger known as a blockchain which is maintained and updated by a network of thousands of computers around the world similar to the way that Wikipedia is kept up by diffuse volunteers rather than by a single company.
Until now the most discussed announcement came from the Australian stock exchange which said in early that it had hired an American software company Digital Asset Holdings to build a distributed ledger for its systems.
has been talking publicly about its interest in the blockchain for a while and last year it announced that it had successfully completed a test of a distributed ledger database in its credit default swaps trading business.
Last year Kickstarter acquired Drip to move into support for the music community and we have heard that Tilt the funding platform formerly known as Crowdtilt has also been approached for an acquisition.
deal today is directly aimed at growing the funnel of transactions focused on good causes that are collected and processed by GoFundMe which pulled in million per month and grew at a rate of percent in.
CrowdRise was by the actor Edward Norton producer Shauna Robertson and Robert and Jeffrey Wolfe in while trying to raise money for the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust.
Close loopholes that can leave me huge surprise medical bills.
We fighting to ensure you and your family can get a fair deal in the marketplace especially on the choices that matter most health care privacy automobiles food finances and more.
Join our campaigns and together we hold corporations and lawmakers accountable.
Prior to Apple Chris was lead author of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure an open source umbrella project that is widely used in commercial products and academic research today.
As Chris joins Tesla we would like to give a special thanks to Jinnah Hosein Vice President of Software who has been serving a dual role as the interim Vice President of Tesla Autopilot Software and will now be heading back to SpaceX.
We are very excited that Chris is joining Tesla to lead our Autopilot engineering team and accelerate the future of autonomous driving.
by Alpha | Jan 9, 2017 | Pre-Market
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And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
known for years that Apple considered a number of different approaches when creating the original iPhone and iOS but before today not had a really good look at any of these early discarded prototypes.
Pictures and video published by Sonny Dickson change that showing what the site claims is an iOS precursor named that uses a click wheel to navigate the interface.
To see which design would work better he pitted the iPod and Macintosh teams against one another with the efforts led by executives Tony Fadell and Scott Forstall respectively.
And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
And precisely because the tweets are so far afield of current president Barack workshopped ones someone with improper access to account could accomplish their goals while staying in character as Trump.
A hack of the Associated Press Twitter account in that falsely asserted breaking news about an explosion at the White House caused the Dow to drop points.
According to Alex Wall who served as director of online engagement in the Obama White House special security protocols do exist for the official POTUS account they just all come from the user side.
One of the flagship appliances that will make good on this promise is the Smart Instaview Refrigerator a fridge that among other things supports integration with Amazon Alexa service.
Alexa is an inherently bad fit for a refrigerator which like the Amazon Echo itself can just sit in the corner of your kitchen awaiting your command.
Privacy is a concern without being compromised companies can use their smart devices to serve up ads or give audio or video recordings to law enforcement.
The company on Sunday unveiled Movement a website it hopes will persuade city planners to consider Uber as part of urban development and transit systems in the future.
totality of Uber and Lyft drivers in Boston represent what is effectively the addition of another transit line Jascha chief information officer at Department of Innovation Technology said in an interview.
But the company said it would balance that demand for information with concerns about user privacy and the need to protect competitive data that could prove valuable to rivals like Lyft Hailo and Grab which are vying for riders across many of the same markets.
Previous talks between Google and automakers including Ford have broken down over who will control the flow of data from autonomous cars that marketers covet to learn the habits of consumers people familiar with the discussion have said.
of us in the automobile or IT industries are close to achieving true Level autonomy said Gill Pratt CEO of the Toyota Research Institute referring to the ability of a car to drive itself without any human intervention.
You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter find it hard to believe that the world will be this utopia of people sitting in the passenger seat getting aromatherapy and listening to Enya while cars figure out which one should proceed through the intersection first Tynan said in an interview.
European nations have also drawn up their own privacy laws and in a court declared its citizens could demand internet companies like Google unlink information about users upon request.
free speech and internet freedom are increasingly under attack all over the globe and not just from authoritarian regimes said Robert McDowell a former member of the Federal Communications Commission and partner at Cooley law firm.
Most American internet companies in Russia operate in violation of the law but without explanation Russian regulators at a body known as Roskomnadzor took the rare step of enforcing its rules.
One afternoon Chris Cox a Republican from California and Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon put their plates together and strategized how they might cut through the frosty partisanship that divided the Hill.
For a young internet facing a potential avalanche of lawsuits Cox and provision was a creative workaround a hack that allowed this new form of communication to grow into the thriving network of commercial enterprises we know today.
One person who has been asking these questions is Mary Anne Franks the legislative and tech policy director for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative a group that fights online harassment and offers support for victims whose lives have been wrecked by it.
One afternoon Chris Cox a Republican from California and Ron Wyden a Democrat from Oregon put their plates together and strategized how they might cut through the frosty partisanship that divided the Hill.
For a young internet facing a potential avalanche of lawsuits Cox and provision was a creative workaround a hack that allowed this new form of communication to grow into the thriving network of commercial enterprises we know today.
One person who has been asking these questions is Mary Anne Franks the legislative and tech policy director for the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative a group that fights online harassment and offers support for victims whose lives have been wrecked by it.
