alan knuckman of one stop option joins us. hello alan! > > hi there. > > in a soft consumer electronics market like we've got, what is best buy doing right? > > well it's hard to figure out this stock. they were one of the best performers in 2013 but they made a high in november of 44 and got knocked all the way down to 22. so best buy got a black eye. i don't know what's the future for electronics but i do understand risk to reward, and at these levels and the low at 22 and we're trading right now at 27 or so, i think it's a good risk-reward value at these levels. > > but alan why would you invest in a corner of the economy that is not doing very well even among its competitors like h.h. greg? > > well these guys can figure it out-- they did last year. i think there's still some value there, they are the leader so they have that ability there, but looking at it technically is where my attraction is. it's been trading between 28 and 22 essentially, 28 and 24 so that $4 range targets a break out to 32, trading on the sideways range, and ag

chart talk is next alan knuckman of one stop options joins us now for chart talk. ng alan. > > good morning angie. > > so you're taking a look today at a stock that has been hammered... for the year it's a housing stock: pultegroup. what do you see in the charts here? > > well i'm from the school of distressed assets-- always trying to find that diamond in the rough and somebody that hasn't participated in the rally, if you look at the home builder's, the home builders had a 150% rally from the fall of 2012 to the recent highs but they're really stalled out for the last year. we've been going sideways. the stock i'm looking at is pulte homes. pulte has been trading between $14 and $22 for a good deal of time and i'm looking forward to making a break out of 22 and head into 30. > > so what is your play here exactly? what will you do with the options? > > well what i'm exactly looking at is leaning on this $18 level of support. right now we're at about 1880-1890 in the stock. 18 is a significant support level as the midpoint of that 22 to 14 range that i talked about.

the gloves are off and joining us from the floor of c m e group alan knuckman and scott shellady here to go a few rounds of traders unplugged. let's take a jab at these fellas... topic number one: global yield sign, global debt yields are on the race to the bottom what does that mean for investors? alan: there's only one question i ask is, where's the money? where is money going to go? obviously it's not a great investment if you're getting onepercent. scott: what it means for investors as long as we've got the center banks that have something to do with the true value there is no real value, and you have to trade relative value because the central banks and their global compression... alan: answer the question! scott: the central banks and their global compression have compressed volatility and volumes so it's a very dangerous world out there and because we don't know what true value is, i would stay away from the equity market and i would be in bonds. alan: wow. angie: on to no. 2... widget wars... google and apple make peace over longstanding patent battles who won the war and whic

joining us now from the floor alan knuckman and andrew keene. good to have you guys back together. topic 1-- social anxiety is it time for investors to unlike social media stocks? alan: i liked facebook a lot better when it came down below that $55 level. it's already up 13% in just a couple of days. so i don't think necessarily today but i think long term it's going to be fine but understand there's volatility there. andrew: i think it's stock specific. i do like facebook as a stock and as a company. i think they're doing everything right on the mobile space. earnings are really good and the stock actually sold off. i don not like twitter or pandora. and i like yelp, linkedin and facebook. alan: the lesson is to be selective. andrew: i like facebook the most. angie: topic 2 - flipping out- home flippers are making money againis there a way for traders to make money? andrew: if i had to pick a homebuilder stockwhich i'm not long any of them. i was actually long home depot and i took off that position and made money on it. another one is hov. we saw institutional order flow. the stoc

alan knuckman and scott shellady.. ready to jump into the ring to take on hot topics. good morning, round number 1 russel russel the small cap index remains nearly 10 percent off its highs. what is that telling traders and investors? alan: well i'm always a fan of distressed sectors and this is 10% off holding its pivot that we've seen the last six months. i'm looking for a comeback believe it or not we just made all time highs in the s&p and the dow. scott: well you know i'd like to say to everybody out there that stocks are allowed to go down. they don't always have to go up. it was up 33% last year or something like that so a little bit of a pullback and even if it's 10 percent... alan: so you're a buyer? scott: i still think it's ok and for this year i am. i'm not saying for the rest of the years but for this year we're going to see eight to 10% on the stock market regardless of what happens this week, but i think it ultimately-- free money globally keep the stock market big. alan: russell doubled the value from 60 to 120 since 2011-- very very strong trend you hav

joining us from the floor of cme group, alan knuckman and shellady ready to throw down their trader thoughtsolitics... only one stock in the dow has not contributed to the clinton family in some way including projects that help haitian earthquake victims. which blue chip do you like? alan: a little spin of politics, i like all the blue chips as you are probably going to know, but only 12 of them right now are negative on the year so i think there's a lot of opportunity. i especially like goldman sachs here in these levels. obviously they're in the financial business so i think there's money to be made, but i do want to state that politics is money. money is politics. scott: talking about politics, in a failed effort not to release my persuasion, i'm going to go with the only one that did not give money to the clintons, unh, it looks like it's in an uptrend... alan: trade with your head not your heart! scott: it looks like it's in that trend to channel right now. if it goes below 73 i don't like it, but right now it's still in a technical upswing and i'd stick with that one. unh, the only one

alan knuckman of one stop option joins us now. he's checking the charts on jet blue. is it up up and away alan?. it looks like it's flying high. it's up 25% since the first of the year so it's in a strong trend, but technically speaking its trading between $8 and $9 since november, so a break out above 9 since it's in 10 which doesn't seem like a lot but that is 20% above where we are right now. > > it is and the reason is we've seen money come out of these high-flying tech stocks and actually go in to some of the airline stocks. so what would be your play? > > airlines have always been a poor investment historically but they figured out a way to monetize what they have-- they're a la carte pricing and they're making money. they have pricing power now for the first time in a long time so if you look at this chart jet blue is trading between $4 and 8 dollars for the last five years so break above $8 targets 12 which is 40 percent higher than where we are right now so i'm looking at an in the money call-- a $7 call for january-- it has a good deal time, its break-even is

from the floor of cme group-- alan knuckman and scott shellady up close and personal and ready to gow rounds... good morning and round number one: ceo pay raise. median ceo pay reaches $10 million per year. what company would you invest in that pays its ceo just $1? alan: well there's only a handful and they do that obviously for symbolism here. they still get stock bonuses. the one i like is whole foods. whole foods is-- nothing is on sale at whole foods. it's gone from $60 down to $38. i like that. that guy doesn't even take stock options just $1. scott: i think allen would like to invest in the government so they could regulate all the ceos pay because that would make him happy but i would rather stick with innovators like carl icahn, sergio brena and larry page... alan: 257 times the average wage of their employers. scott: it's the most democratic thing you could do. don't buy their stock if you don't like it. how about that? it's the democracy which you fight for so much just don't buy the stock! alan: that's up from 190 times the increase is bigger 10% last year alone... scott:

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