Tickers & Tactics
By Tickers & Tactics
Categories: Business, Investing
Stock ticker symbols and options strategies, explained daily by Maya and Theo. Educational only, not financial advice.
140 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Tickers & Tactics: The Bank With No Branches — Decoding NU and the Efficiency Ratio
Maya and Theo decode Nu Holdings after its twelve percent Friday jump on record profit, and teach the efficiency ratio: why spending nineteen cents to earn a dollar changes everything for a bank.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Ad Platform That Took Off — Decoding LFTO and Operating Leverage
Maya and Theo decode Liftoff Mobile after its thirty percent Friday jump, and teach operating leverage: why profit grew far faster than its thirty-two percent revenue growth.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Loaf That Hit a New Low — Decoding FLO and the Payout Ratio
Maya and Theo decode Flowers Foods after its earnings miss, guidance cut and new fifty-two week low, and teach the payout ratio: why a nine percent yield can be a warning, not a gift.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Shoe That Climbed to a High — Decoding CROX and Delta Hedging
Maya and Theo decode Crocs after its new fifty-two week high on a red Friday, and teach delta hedging: counting your deltas to turn market exposure up or down on purpose.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Headline That Hid a One-Time Fee — Decoding NMAX and Quality of Earnings
Maya and Theo decode Newsmax after its thirty-one percent jump, and teach quality of earnings: stripping out a fourteen million dollar one-time fee to find the growth that can actually repeat.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Space Stock That Fell to Earth — Decoding SPCE and the Borrow Fee
Maya and Theo explain why Virgin Galactic beat earnings and still fell thirty-one percent on a two hundred fifty million dollar stock sale plan, and teach hard to borrow stocks and the borrow fee: the daily rent on every short sale.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Rumor That Heated Up — Decoding MOD and Stock Replacement
Maya and Theo decode MOD after Modine surged on reported Samsung takeover talks in a red tech tape, contrast VirTra's earnings pop, and teach stock replacement with deep in-the-money calls.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Machine Maker Beat — Decoding AMAT and Tax-Loss Harvesting
Maya and Theo break down October PPI, decode Applied Materials after its record quarter, and teach tax-loss harvesting and the wash sale rule options traders must respect.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Wafer That Popped After Hours — Decoding CBRS and Stock-Based Compensation
Maya and Theo decode Cerebras after its record quarter and after-hours pop, and teach stock-based compensation: the invisible paycheck that cost CBRS one hundred fifty-five million dollars in one quarter and is paid by shareholders in slices.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Beat That Raised — Decoding CSCO and the Beat-and-Raise
Maya and Theo decode Cisco after its record quarter and raised outlook, contrast Applied Materials slipping on its own beat, and teach the beat-and-raise: why guidance and the whisper number grade earnings, not just the headline.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Moon Lander That Quintupled — Decoding LUNR and American Versus European Options
Maya and Theo decode Intuitive Machines after its record quarter sent revenue up over four hundred percent, and teach American versus European style options: when you can exercise, and whether shares or cash change hands.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Record Quarter in the Backlog — Decoding MRCY and the Volatility Skew
Maya and Theo decode Mercury Systems after its record bookings quarter and mirror-image profit flip, and teach the volatility skew: why crash insurance costs more than a moonshot ticket.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Company That Split in Two — Decoding CTVA and Pro Forma Earnings
Maya and Theo decode Corteva after its first earnings as a standalone crop-protection company, and teach pro forma earnings: how to read a spinoff print without falling for the chart trap.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Fuel That Cashed Its Carbon — Decoding GEVO and Unusual Options Activity
Maya and Theo recap the Veterans Day rally, decode GEVO after its record carbon-credit quarter sent the stock up thirty-one percent, and teach unusual options activity: volume versus open interest, sweeps, blocks, and why flow is a clue, never a conclusion.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Watch That Ticked Back — Decoding FOSL and Short Interest
Maya and Theo decode Fossil Group after its first profit in four years sent the stock up 28 percent, and teach short interest and days to cover: how a crowded exit turns good news into a bonfire.
- Tickers & Tactics: Santa in a Warehouse — Decoding COST and the Dividend Trap for Short Calls
Maya and Theo decode COST after Costco declares a record thirty dollar special dividend, and teach early assignment risk: why a huge dividend can call your shares away before you collect it.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Quantum Air Pocket — Decoding RGTI and the Put-Call Ratio
Maya and Theo break down Rigetti Computing's lumpy Q3 miss after the close, contrast Sea Limited's beat-and-miss whipsaw, and teach the put-call ratio: the options market's mood ring.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Cooler That Heated Up — Decoding AAON and IV Rank
Maya and Theo decode AAON after its 27% earnings jump on data-center cooling demand, score CoreWeave's after-close results, and teach IV rank: how to tell if options are cheap or expensive versus their own history.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Trial That Doubled It — Decoding PEPG and the Vertical Spread
Maya and Theo decode PepGen after its Phase 2 splicing data more than doubled the stock on a red CPI day, and teach the vertical spread: defined risk for binary events.
- Tickers & Tactics: Hot CPI, Cool Tech — Decoding SANM and Volatility Term Structure
Maya and Theo break down the hot October CPI print, decode Sanmina (SANM) after its AI-driven earnings beat, and teach volatility term structure: contango, backwardation, and why fear has a due date.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Plumber Beat the Rally — Decoding FERG and Gamma Exposure Before CPI
Maya and Theo grade Ferguson's beat-and-raise, the after-close results from Plug Power, Lucid and Take-Two, and teach gamma exposure ahead of Tuesday's CPI print.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Buyback and the Buy-Write — Decoding TTD and the Buy-Write
Maya and Theo decode The Trade Desk after its after-close beat and one billion dollar buyback, and teach the buy-write: buying the stock and selling the call in a single package.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Drift After the Beat — Decoding NRG and Post-Earnings Announcement Drift
Maya and Theo decode NRG after its fifty-four percent earnings beat, contrast Nvidia's headline shock and Ferguson's small beat, and teach post-earnings announcement drift: why prices keep leaking in the direction of a big surprise for weeks.
- Tickers & Tactics: Plug Tonight, Proof This Morning — Decoding PLUG and Lambda
Maya and Theo cover Constellation's big Monday beat, preview Plug Power's after-close report, decode PLUG from its 1997 fuel-cell roots, and teach lambda — delta translated into percent leverage.
- Tickers & Tactics: The Delivery Beat the Build — Decoding LCID and the Frontspread
Maya and Theo preview Lucid's Monday report, decode LCID from its Atieva battery roots, and teach the frontspread — the ratio spread that wins only when the move stays moderate.
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