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- Rhapsody’s Deal is Music to UK ETF’s Ears
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The United Kingdom exchange traded fund (ETF) was humming along to news that another subscription music site is going to begin selling digital songs.
Rhapsody wants to challenge iTunes and is therefore offering unprotected digital songs that can be played on any device. The company had previously offered consumers access to its library where they could "rent" music for a monthly fee, but the catch was that the songs didn’t work on Apple’s iPod, r…
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- June ETF Performance Report
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Today, the markets wrap up a month, a quarter and the first half of the year and it was a rocky June for exchange traded fund (ETF) investors. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 10.2% this month, while the Nasdaq finished 9.1% lower and the S&P 500 lost 8.6%.Commodities, oil and metals continued to be strong performers, as they have been for much of this year. Oil settled the month at $140 a barrel, and gasoline reached a new record national average of $4.086 a gallon.
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Don’t Buy This Rally - Window Dressing and EOM Buying Won’t Last.
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Last week, the market sustained serious technical damage. Major support levels have been breached and the momentum clearly favors the downside. Currently, the SPY is only $3 away from the double bottom formed in March. A retest of that level is likely. This morning, the Chicago PMI came in a largely as expected. Business activity has contracted for the fifth straight month. Production fell to 45.1 from 51.5 and new orders fell from 56.1 to 52.0. This holiday-shortened trading week will include many economic releases. Construction spending, ISM manufacturing, ADP employment and factory orders will all be released before Thursday. Without …
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Stop the Presses: Newspaper Industry Woes Might Drag Media ETF
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The media exchange traded fund (ETF) contains companies that represent nearly every corner of the media universe, from television, the internet and newspapers.The newspaper industry had one of its roughest weeks yet last week, as six newspapers said they were going to slash payrolls, other papers announced layoffs and one said it would outsource its printing, r…
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Closing Bell: Simple Man
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Note: I offer my apologies for the abrupt departure today. However, there is monster news coming your way. Be prepared….
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Looking for the ETF Silver Lining Amid the Clouds?
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With the markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs) getting socked by near-daily bad news, you might be wondering how Pollyanna did it. Wasn’t she exhausted? How can you stay optimistic when:
Oil keeps hitting new records, past $143 a barrel this morning.
U.S. automakers report their June sales figures, and if recent news is any indication, it’s not going to be pretty.
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Inflation in Euro Countries Hits a 16-Year High; Could It Dent ETFs?
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Euro nations are finding themselves in the same pickle we’re in: combating problems that might be helping exchange traded funds (ETFs) and other investments, but causing the economy to feel a pinch as consumer spending slows.The yearly inflation in euro nations hit a record 4% in June, r…
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Viva Espana
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Congrats to Spain for winning the Euro Cup….and providing us an excuse to Google up some Penelope Cruz. When will I learn though: Never Bet the Over!And hey, how ’bout them Inverses? I believe they mess with volatility and put/call readings in that they provide an alternative to puts. Not so much in a frenzy, but in the 99% of the time where nothing much is going on….
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- France Telecom Drops Bid for Swedish Company, Dialing Up ETFs
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France Telecom dropped its takeover bid that, had it gone through, would have created Europe’s largest telecommunications company and perhaps boosted France’s exchange traded fund (ETF) as well.The bid for Swedish company TeliaSonera was proposed for $42 billion, r…
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Don Fishback on Complacency in the VIX/VXO During Selloffs
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When someone follows the VXO more closely than the VIX, it is usually because they have been doing it for a decade or more and found no reason to switch when the CBOE changed how the VIX was calculated back in 2003. For all practical purposes, the differences between the VIX and the VXO are not meaningful enough for most investors to warrant monitoring both volatility indices. …
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- What I Own Right Now
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I updated my current stock and option portfolio page with my current positions and will update my month end results at the end of business today. If all of my July naked puts are assigned I’d be on margin by a few thousand dollars, but don’t expect that to happen. Add in my few August naked puts and I’m taking a bigger risk. VIP remains my only long position. Not shown here is the $90k I’m keeping in a money market to cover most of these puts. I’m riding light right now for my August options and will ease into them as I find stocks I like, with a better risk/reward ratio.
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Volatility Chart Du Jour, GDX
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Now that Congress has conclusively proven that speculators have doubled the price of oil, can gold be far behind? I mean think about it, all the oil they had to buy and take off the market they have to store in their backyard refineries. Silver and Gold they barely would fill their media rooms….
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- H&R Block
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Instead of celebrating greatness this morning over a pile of victories, I am watching the e-mails stack up in regards to the debacle over H&R Block. Stop it. In case you missed the trade, here is a recap below…I bought H&R Block (HRB) puts. A lot of them. July 20’s @ $0.65. This stock will break hard, and I am anticipating that break right here. Watch the news.Target price:…
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- There Is Plenty Of Market Space for Both ETFs and Mutual Funds In the Investment Universe
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Do you think exchange traded funds (ETFs) will ever replace the mutual funds’ place in the industry? There are plenty of people who aren’t so sure, and believe it or not, we’re among them.
There have indeed been a number of mutual funds that have been consolidating and closing in recent years, but mutual funds have been around for decades and they’re a household name. There are trillions of assets in them, and they outnumber ETFs by a long shot.
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Don’t Buy This Rally - Window Dressing and EOM Buying Won’t Last.
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Last week, the market sustained serious technical damage. Major support levels have been breached and the momentum clearly favors the downside. Currently, the SPY is only $3 away from the double bottom formed in March. A retest of that level is likely. This morning, the Chicago PMI came in a largely as expected. Business activity has contracted for the fifth straight month. Production fell to 45.1 from 51.5 and new orders fell from 56.1 to 52.0. This holiday-shortened trading week will include many economic releases. Construction spending, ISM manufacturing, ADP employment and factory orders will all be released before Thursday. Without …
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Thinking Caps Are Calling For Large-Cap Stocks And ETFs To Step Up
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As far as exchange traded funds (ETFs) divvied up by cap size and growth vs. value, it’s been all about the mid-caps so far this year. For the last three months, mid-caps have returned 4.5% in the value category, 8% in the blend and 10.5% in growth.But now ETF provider SPA says there are a number of factors that are priming the large-caps for strong performance.
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- ……Or Maybe We Do Need Some Option Interest
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So as Quantifiable Edges shows, we can rally in the face of mediocre pu/call readings. Sluggish volatility though? Could be a tougher nut, as this from D…
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Weekend Reading: Oil, Iran, and Greener Capitalism
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Here are some articles of interest we found this weekend. Subscribers, our weekend portfolio update will be posted later tonight, or very early tomorrow morning at the latest. …
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30 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Options Trading June Monthly Review
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This is my options trading trades review for the month of June 2008.
3 winner out of 5 trades with just 2% profit for the month. I still stick to about $2500 of investment per trade. There are still…
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29 June, 2008| Derivatives |
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- In Case You Needed Convincing, Morgan Stanley’s ETF Report Presents More Pluses
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Morgan Stanley’s research group, headed by Paul Mazzilli, released a report on an age-old debate: exchange traded funds (ETFs) vs. mutual funds. The title of the document - "Exchange-Traded Funds: ETFs Provide Attractive Alternatives to Open-End Mutual Fund" - leaves no mystery as to its findings.
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