The Traderszone Network

In this segment of the Motley Fool Money radio show, host Chris Hill, Million Dollar Portfolio’s Jason Moser and Matt Argersinger, and Total Income’s Ron Gross review the state of troubled former market darling Under Armour (NYSE: UA) (NYSE: UAA).

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Futures for the S&P 500 index were little changed late Monday. Apple-supplier Skyworks Solutions (SWKS), Microchip Technology (MCHP) and Supernus Pharmaceuticals (SUPN) fell late despite beating earnings views.

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Barclaycard measure of consumer spending
+2.4% y/y for October
– prior was +3% in September
“In light of the Bank of England’s announcement last week, it’ll be interesting to see how shoppers, who have so far demonstrated their resilience, continue to juggle the many demands on their budget,” said Paul Lockstone, managing director at Barclaycard

I’m looking for a tool / resource that would let me model what various hypothetical movements in an underlying SP would do to my account’s margin requirements. I have an Excel formula that calculates option margin requirements, BUT only for straightforward naked long/short puts and calls…my account has several more complicated option spread positions that have hairier margin calc’s including offsets, etc. (e.g. if I’m long both a put and a call in same underlying, I requires lower…

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Ackman is so Arrogant and rigid in his thinking; I think, sooner or later he will run his fund to the ground.

October’s figure is the second monthly decline in a row, totaling nearly -14.0 percent from a peak earlier in August.

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