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- International Investing
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The Covered Calls Advisor Portfolio(CCAP) uses an asset allocation guideline of:U.S. Large Cap — 50%U.S. Small Cap — 20%International — 25%Bonds — 0%Cash(Money Market) — 5%Previous posts have described the approach used for identifying potential U.S. stock selections for purchase consideration in CCAP. The table below is the simple value-oriented model used to rank various international countries by overall investment worthiness. At present for international investments, using a country-specific ETF will normally be the preferred investment method. This approach is preferable at the present time in comparison with investing in individual companies because of the relatively modest amount of detailed and reliable financial data and analysis presently available on individual international company ADRs. As time goes on, it is expected that the availability of more and higher quality financial analysis information will be available for a wider range of ADRs. Also, from a practical viewpoint, the number of liquid call options on ADRs is somewhat limited now but is likely to increase substantially during the next couple of years….
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Will Back-to-School ETFs Be As Great As Gatsby This Season?
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The ads are already infiltrating the newspapers and television commercials, and like Rodney Dangerfield, many U.S. families are gearing up to go back to school. Are retail exchange traded funds (ETFs) ready?
Retailers are awaiting a spree of spending from parents of school-age children to college-age students and the odd person who just gets a thrill from a new set of pens and a nice, clean notebook.
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Van Eck Dives Into The Gulf With New ETF
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Van Eck is trekking out into frontier markets with the launch of their exchange traded fund (ETF).
Market Vector Gulf States (MES) gives easy access to the gulf states of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Katar and United Arab Emirates.
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Closing Bell: Show Me What You Got
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Coal Company Earnings Leave ETF Stoked
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Arch Coal (ACI) reported that its profits tripled in the second quarter, stoking the coal exchange traded fund (ETF).
The company attributed the profits to soaring global coal prices and tighter supplies, r…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Foreclosures Triple, But Real Estate ETFs Don’t Seem Wounded
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Foreclosures shot up a whopping 121% in one year, a percentage that could hold back exchange traded funds (ETFs) that focus on the real estate market.
About 220,000 homes were repossessed in the second quarter, triple the number from the same quarter last year, r…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Another Week
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So if you’re going to Fenway tonight, don’t forget your Madonna mask.Not to diss A-Rod of anything, but C…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Call to Action
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As we have seen demonstrated over the last 2 weeks, the market volatility is making it increasingly difficult to swing trade. I know many have reduced position sizes, outstanding trades, or have even converted fully to cash. Not a bad idea, considering that many trends have changed and we are trading in the heart of earnings season.
The problem is that this volatility is too good, to not be taking advantage of. The moves in oil, gold, interest rates, and a few brand name stocks, are ripe for day trading. In fact, I think I am going to further reduce my time frames on some of my trades to weather the volatility in my portfolio. In short, I will be trying to implement some day trading ideas like I did last month. Basically, find the intra-day moves, catch them early, and take profits at the close. I think the market will be much easier from a psychological and emotional stand point if you settle most of your trades in cash at the end of the day. Besides, with earnings season going on, this has been a trend killer.
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Will Russia’s ETF Suffer Collateral Damage In Wake of Allegations?
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Russia’s exchange traded fund (ETF) is trading down early today after the country’s RTS index plunged headlong into a bear market.
The index went into turmoil after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said OAO Mechel, a metals and mining company, would be investigated for overcharging for raw materials. The 50-stock index fell 21% off its May 19 high, r…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Chesapeake Energy Corp (CHK) Chart
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Chesapeake Energy (CHK) has seen better days, including back up at $60 where I sold two naked puts. I charted it today to see where I should price some naked calls to try to cut my losses some, but was surprised with the action I decided to take. The way I chart CHK’s stock, the downside is relatively limited compared to the upside. The key word here is “relatively”.
CHK is hitting a possible trend line….
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Transportation ETF Flies The Friendly Skies On Your Extra Dollar
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Flying the friendly skies may be a theme of the past, as many airlines have cut back on extras, sending profits and exchange traded funds (ETFs) on a ride that could have many choosing to stay grounded.
New travel fees are the latest effort to help stem the bleeding of higher fuel costs which are, of course, linked to higher oil prices. As of Tuesday, United Airlines (…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Option Strategies for Directionless Markets (Review)
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Option Strategies for Directionless Markets: Trading with Butterflies, Iron Butterflies, and Condors
Anthony J. Saliba, with Joseph C. Corona and Karen E. Johnson (Bloomberg Press: 2008)
When traders are first exposed to spreading strategies like butterflies and iron condors, one of the first questions they always ask us is, “Can you recommend a book that goes into these strategies in more detail? Where can I learn more?” We’ve had to reply that there aren’t really any books that discuss iron butterflies and iron condors in much detail - until now. O…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Option Strategies for Directionless Markets (Review)
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Option Strategies for Directionless Markets: Trading with Butterflies, Iron Butterflies, and Condors
Anthony J. Saliba, with Joseph C. Corona and Karen E. Johnson (Bloomberg Press: 2008)
When traders are first exposed to spreading strategies like butterflies and iron condors, one of the first questions they always ask us is, “Can you recommend a book that goes into these strategies in more detail? Where can I learn more?” We’ve had to reply that there aren’t really any books that discuss iron butterflies and iron condors in much detail - until now. O…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Sector Performance in the Last Two Bull Moves
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I have been fielding a bunch of questions about sectors, particularly oil and energy, over the past few days. Included in most of my responses has been a comparison of the March to May bull move and the most recent move that came off of the July 15th bottom. Since I rarely repost content from my subscriber newsletter, I thought it might be a good excuse to cut and a paste a section from Wednesday’s newsletter on sectors: …
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- 8-Call
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Crude lower, market higher.
I talked about buying some more calls, and going delta positive on Wednesday, which I did. The result is a shot of 8 calls chased with a line of 7 puts. My 55/45 split held up reasonably well through a -280 day yesterday, in which I am well pleased. Here is where I stand…
Long: CELG, DKS, WBD, NUVA, RGLD, FCN, UA, IBKR
Short: TSL, DECK, ENER, TRMB, GIFI, SPWR, ICE…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Equities Can’t Get a CLUe
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Ok, stupid pun. But the August crude futures contract (CLU8) is down another $2 today (about 1.6%), and the market indexes don’t seem to care that much. While the NDX(QQQQ) and RUT(IWM) are up about 1%, SPX(SPY) and DJIA(DIA) are only modestly higher. A small rally this morning faded pretty quickly, and we wouldn’t be surprised to make a new low for the week into the close.
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Equities Can’t Get a CLUe
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Ok, stupid pun. But the August crude futures contract (CLU8) is down another $2 today (about 1.6%), and the market indexes don’t seem to care that much. While the NDX(QQQQ) and RUT(IWM) are up about 1%, SPX(SPY) and DJIA(DIA) are only modestly higher. A small rally this morning faded pretty quickly, and we wouldn’t be surprised to make a new low for the week into the close.
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- The Return of Shorty?
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Guess what. All those Evil Shorts that single handedly toppled those perfectly healthy financial giants? You know, the one’s that got “pantsed” by Monday’s rule change that wasn’t actually a rule change?…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- The Return of Shorty?
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Guess what. All those Evil Shorts that single handedly toppled those perfectly healthy financial giants? You know, the one’s that got “pantsed” by Monday’s rule change that wasn’t actually a rule change?…
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Are ETFs Poaching the Money Markets?
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With short duration funds being a recent trend in fixed-income exchange traded funds (ETFs), few of these ETFs actually invest like a real money market.
However, Murray Coleman for IndexUniverse reports …
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25 July, 2008| Derivatives |
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