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Michael Bigger is an investor and a trader who has been involved with trading technologies for more than twenty years. In 1992, Michael joined Citibank as head trader of U.S. single-stock derivatives, where he managed a $5 billion portfolio of equity derivatives. In 1998, he joined D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. to trade the U.S. equity derivatives portfolio. (More)

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    Jun282012

    Trading Your Google Glasses

    DateThursday, June 28, 2012 at 7:37AM | by AuthorMichael Bigger | CommentPost a Comment
    With the introduction of its Nexus tablets and its glasses, Google (GOOG) will have an abundance of fresh news in the next few months which will create trading opportunities.
     
    This situation is appealing to us because the stock is statistically cheap against the Technology Select SPDR (XLK) as you can see on the Spread Analyzer image displayed below. GOOG is also cheap againstIntel (INTC) and the triple Qs (QQQ), but we like the $spread better against the XLK given the volatility of the spread. This vehicle will move quite a bit on fresh news and traders can take advantage of this by leaning on GOOG's cheapness. You can look at the $spread within the analyzer right here for more clarity. You can play around with the timeframe or run GOOG against any others stocks of your choosing. We are long GOOG against INTC, QQQ, and XLK.
      
    Go ahead play with it, rate your $spreads, and if you tweeted about it, one of our traders will be happy to make an assessment of it.
     
    Written by Michael Bigger. Follow me on Twitter and StockTwits.  
     

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