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    Financial “Trade wars are good and easy to win” says Trump

    Financial “Trade wars are good and easy to win” says Trump


    “Trade wars are good and easy to win” says Trump

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:48 AM PST

    Why is machine learning in finance so hard?

    Posted: 01 Mar 2018 10:38 AM PST

    What's the difference between Finance Machine Learning and Quantitative Finance using R / Python?

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 07:30 AM PST

    I'm getting hung up on what the actual differences are between the two. Is it predictive for analytical? Or is there a predictive piece in the quantitative finance piece with the use of R / Python?

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    $ESRX Earnings Beats Estimates on February 27

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:35 AM PST

    Express Scripts (ESRX) just reported earnings on February 27, 2018, after the market closed. Earnings Per Share (EPS) was reported at $2.16, after analysts had expected $2.09 per share. As a result, ESRX opened up +1.7%, but dropped later in the day and closed down -4.1% at 75.45. Since earnings was reported, the stock has traded in a range from 73.42 to 80.50. Price Volatility Against Expectations Ahead of earnings, option traders were expecting a ± 4.2% move for this date, so the earnings move of -4.1% was right in line with expectation. ESRX has only experienced 1 larger-than-expected earnings move in the last 12 quarters. Earnings Price Patterns The MarketChameleon earnings price pattern has detected one notable historical trend for after earnings. 1 Day After Earnings:For 5 of the last 6 quarters (83%), ESRX stock price has gone down on the day following earnings. It has had an average loss of -1.2% during that span. Earnings Option Strategies MarketChameleon's option strategy analysis shows that selling out-of-the-money calls one day after earnings and buying them back one week after earnings had 83% winning occurrences, for an average gain of +47.4%. Additionally, selling at-the-money straddles resulted in 58% winning occurrences, for an average return of +10.0%.

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