$McDonald's(MCD.US)$ $Microsoft(MSFT.US)$ $Alphabet-C(GOOG.US)$ For years, it was thought that stock buybacks were an entirely positive thing for shareholders. However, there are some downsides to buybacks as well. One of the most important metrics for judging a company's financial position is its EPS. EPS divides a company's total earnings by the number of outstanding shares; a higher number indicates a stronger financial position.
By repurchasing its stock, a company decreases the number of outstanding shares. A stock buyback thus enables a company to increase this metric without actually increasing its earnings or doing anything to support the idea that it is becoming financially stronger.
As an illustration, consider a company with yearly earnings of $10 million and 500,000 outstanding shares. This company's EPS, then, is $20. If it repurchases 100,000 of its outstanding shares, its EPS immediately increases to $25, even though its earnings have not budged. Investors who use EPS to gauge financial position may view this company as stronger than a similar firm with an EPS of $20 when in reality the use of the buyback tactic accounts for the $5 difference.
The key reasons buybacks are controversial:
1. The impact on earnings per share can give an artificial lift to the stock and mask financial problems that would be revealed by a closer look at the company’s ratios.
2. Companies will use buybacks as a way to allow executives to take advantage of stock option programs while not diluting EPS.
3. Buybacks can create a short-term bump in the stock price that some say allows insiders to profit while suckering other investors. This price increase may look good at first, but the positive effect is usually ephemeral, with equilibrium regaining when the market realizes that the company has done nothing to increase its actual value. Those who buy in after the bump can then lose money.

$Nike(NKE.US)$ I like the idea of the 145/140P credit spread here. $1.45 credit for the 11/19 opex
30-45 days or more until expiration would capture the most premium vs. theta decay (sweet spot per Tasty Trades).
You could go long naked : ) higher risk idea . I don't have conviction on how high and quickly Nike will rebound so I like the spread trade idea here

$Blink Charging(BLNK.US)$ i have a position on this stock from $29.19 and have stops below 24 just to give it some wiggle room since it has tagged the 61.8 before. i have targets at 79 but since it has never been that high before i will probably look to lock some profit in at previous highs and ride the rest to target if it happens. Set up is a traditional hwb all time low to all time high. 50% touched, broke above 38.2 and retest of 50% was our entry. Just discovered this set up last week and got a good price for the trade. Also forming a wedge down here so hopefully we can get a break out. With my position at 29.19 and stops $5 below, price target $35 higher (previous highs) it gives us a good risk to reward of about a 1:7. I like to keep things simple, with stocks i prefer larger time frames.

$Aterian(ATER.US)$ YOU GUYS CAN SEE HOW HARD THEY WERE FIGHTING AND SPREADING FUD. SO STOP WITH THESE LITTLE ASS FUCKING PRICE TARGETS THIS IS ACTUALLY A HUGE ONCE IN A LIFETIME RIDE PROBABLY A BIGGER SQUEEZE THAN GME DUE TO HOW LOW THE FLOAT IS.
Anyone that sells at anything below $100 deserves to miss out on what coming! SO PLEASE LET'S NOT RUIN IT. WE CONTROL THE FLOAT! This Rocket is about to fly to the moon the company has assets worth more than its market cap alone. Also, its earnings are out of this world so with no squeeze this is a $100 stock with a gamma squeeze this should be where GME is at or even more because of how low the float is. Look for $300 to $500! In addition, over $1 billion dollars of options expire in the money that will trigger them to buy shares to hedge for what's coming. This is a solid company with solid fundamentals.

$SPDR S&P Retail ETF(XRT.US)$ Sold 80 PUTS @ 0.47 Strike 85
% to Strike is 10.4% from entry
ATR percentile is low
Max Gain: est $3760
Total BP Block: 75K

$Evergrande Auto(Outdated)(LIST0719.SH)$ 's profit ratio is higher than that of $BABA-SW(09988.HK)$
Basically, more than 90% of stocks are now better than 9988.

$TENCENT(00700.HK)$ After the performance, where did the rise fall back to where? Today is Friday, and Hong Kong stocks crash every Monday!

On September 11, I said that it would be difficult for $TENCENT(00700.HK)$ to return to 420. Even if the market fell sharply later, the lowest was 443. This Tencent's support is strong enough. What do you think about the future trend of Tencent?

$E-mini NASDAQ 100 Futures(SEP4)(NQmain.US)$ NAZ looking to pass 15350 as upper test. The trendline is longer term downtrend and will need to be broken. While the bounce is greater than 50% off low, it has come in off peak volume times. For example: we are only 110 point higher than the Monday EOD bounce that happened in final 30 minutes of close and continued in Overnight before selling off for Tuesday and most of Wednesday. The NAZ will open today and retest 15150, prior to trying to take out the trendline. Failure above will see some 2 way movement.

$Amazon(AMZN.US)$ bearish
PT: 2,565 - 2,939.52
H&S On weekly with a C wave down expected. We can see that it lost purple channel, back tested and then rejected the re-entry. Blue channel is the main channel where we will most likely visit my green box and middle channel (light blue dotted line for a test there).
Major flip point to bullish: Above 3,558.60