What are you buying today?

[backtothebeach]

ADBE after hours for $207. Glutton for punishment.

[zippy1]

4 hours ago, sleepydragon said:

but isn’t klac also has ebeam inspection product now… probably not as good/dominant  as ASML’s one? Thanks’

KLA does have e-beam inspection.  It just that it missed the opportunity to be the leader about 10-15 years ago when it did have technology but chose not to offer it.  That gave the Taiwanese upstart a chance to get into the market.  Once the Taiwanese upstart got bought by ASML. Suddenly, the upstart had access to the huge resources of ASML.

However, the optical inspection business will continue be there even as the "scaling" continues.  If you look at a cross section like below.  The smallest parts at the bottom will be scaled and will need e-beam inspection.
The top parts will large features will stay with optical inspection.
KLA will do fine.  This is not an "e-beam inspection replace optical inspection" story.  

[Cod Liver Oil]

Bought some PDD at 80. It’s loathed but the b/s looks like a loaded gun. And more Nintendo. The park in Orlando is doing well and expanding soon. $15bn cash plus Pokemon plus Mario is a thing of beauty even though management is on the spectrum. 

Edited yesterday at 02:49 AM by Cod Liver Oil

[Gregmal]

36 minutes ago, Cod Liver Oil said:

even though management is on the spectrum. 

I don’t know about this statement, because the folks I know who are on the spectrum are actually intelligent 

[Cod Liver Oil]

Management seems savantish when it comes to IP development but retarded regarding basic capitalist behavior. 

[ourkid8]

More BABA, I couldn’t help myself!!!

[brobro777]

Bought EWY covered short, like a true value investor

[treasurehunt]

Bought more ADYEY and now have a fullish position. Started a position in FOUR. The payments space has been decimated, but I'm not really sure these two are the best choices in the space. I may go with a basket approach.

[Cor]

22 hours ago, frommi said:

bought some Adobe Leap Calls 2028, 220 strike.

As a newbie to options, can you please share why this strike? I’m seeing open options interest for the 200s much higher on IB. Does that affect liquidity or not really? Just trying to understand. Also is Adobe very liquid for options trading vs some other SaaS companies? 

[frommi]

5 minutes ago, Cor said:

As a newbie to options, can you please share why this strike? I’m seeing open options interest for the 200s much higher on IB. Does that affect liquidity or not really? Just trying to understand. Also is Adobe very liquid for options trading vs some other SaaS companies? 

Yes its liquid. Option strikes closer to the current price have a higher delta so they move less on volatity and more on the real price of the underlying. If you chose an option strike far out of the money, say 300$ in this example when vola is high like today for Adobe they are more expensive, so its quite possible that the stock moves up, but the option price doesnt move at all because volatility moves down. Thats why i typically chose ATM options. But when vola is very low it can make sense to go further out on the strike.

[Cor]

38 minutes ago, frommi said:

Yes it’s liquid. Option strikes closer to the current price have a higher delta so they move less on volatity and more on the real price of the underlying. If you chose an option strike far out of the money, say 300$ in this example when vola is high like today for Adobe they are more expensive, so its quite possible that the stock moves up, but the option price doesnt move at all because volatility moves down. Thats why i typically chose ATM options. But when vola is very low it can make sense to go further out on the strike.

Thanks makes sense. By volatility do you mean daily/weekly moves of several percentage points or higher? So a far OTM call at say 300 could be good if Adobe all of a sudden just continually starts to grind up - slow or fast doesn’t matter right if it’s without many pullbacks? 

[bizaro86]

14 minutes ago, Cor said:

Thanks makes sense. By volatility do you mean daily/weekly moves of several percentage points or higher? So a far OTM call at say 300 could be good if Adobe all of a sudden just continually starts to grind up - slow or fast doesn’t matter right if it’s without many pullbacks? 

 

By volatility he means implied volatility. That's basically the market's forecast of future volatility expressed through option prices.

 

So if implied volatility goes down option prices will go down (and if IV goes up option prices go up). That has the potential to overwhelm changes in the price of the underlying.

[LC]

Sold some 1 month adobe puts , 181 breakeven. Meh?

[TwoCitiesCapital]

10 minutes ago, LC said:

Sold some 1 month adobe puts , 181 breakeven. Meh?

 

+1 

 

After seeing the results, I sold some put spreads at the open for beer money. $200/$195. 

 

35% if it remains above $200 on any bounce 

 

 

Edited 17 hours ago by TwoCitiesCapital

[EgonKuhn]

New starter position in ADSK