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- Latin American ETFs Hit Hard By Lower Growth Forecasts
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Latin America’s exchange traded funds (ETFs) were hit hard today, and its fastest economic expansion in 30 years might be coming to an end.
The global credit crunch has been stunting investment and dampening demand for the region’s commodities, say Joshua Goodman and Sebastian Boyd for Bloomberg. Growth in the region for 2009 could be cut […]…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Mutual Fund Giants Are Taking To ETFs
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While exchange traded funds (ETFs) may not take the place of mutual funds anytime soon, they’ve proven themselves a force to be reckoned with. The mutual fund industry seems to be following the old saying, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.”
This has especially become evident in the wake of the credit market mess that […]…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Political BS Impedes Bailout and Destroys Confidence - I’m Bearish!
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The message to politicians should be loud and clear, “pass the bailout… or else”. The market tanked Monday after the proposal was rejected. We witnessed the worst one-day decline since October 1987. In good faith, the market rallied Tuesday on the notion that legislators would not let us down. What started out as a simple three-page proposal now includes vital elements like removing the excise tax on wooden arrows and lowering import taxes on Puerto Rican rum. I would love to know the names of the politicians who put these items ahead of a national crisis. They should be shot. At …
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Tom Lydon Talks Yen, Consumer Staples ETFs on Fox Business
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Tom Lydon appeared on Fox Business earlier today to discuss the strengthening US Dollar, the Japanese yen and consumer staples exchange traded funds (ETFs) in the credit crunch. Video of Tom’s segment appears below:…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Buy-and-Hold ETF Investors Don’t Have to Sit Back
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Most investors and advisors had an idea that the bear was coming to Wall Street, so this gave most fair warning to shore up and be prepared, taking necessary steps to protect shares and exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Even before the crisis hit, this year had already handed up losses, and most of the advisors were […]…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Lehman In Your ETF’s Name Is Not a Worrisome Thing
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A number of exchange traded fund (ETF) investors are left wondering, “What is in a name, particularly those funds with Lehman in the title?”
At times like these, you can forgive those who see a name synonymous with “bankruptcy” in the title of anything. For example, there is the Lehman 1-3 Year Treasury Bond (SHY) and […]…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Food For Thought
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Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Factory Orders Might Pinch Industrial ETFs
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Exchange traded funds (ETFs) and stocks are down sharply this morning as more downbeat economic news trickled in on two fronts: factory orders and unemployment.
Factory orders are down more than what had been forecast, by 4%. It was the biggest drop in two years, says Timothy R. Homan for Bloomberg. The decline is partially a […]…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Some Relief In ETFs As Bailout Plan Nears Approval
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After a failure that rocked Wall Street and exchange traded funds (ETFs) earlier this week, the $700 billion bailout package seems closer to reality.
The Senate approved the bill, and now it’s off to the House, report Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Charles Babington for the Associated Press. Leaders in the House are working quickly to convert […]…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- S&P 500 Index Sets New Volatility Record for Fourth Consecutive Day
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When measuring volatility, there is a tendency to focus on historical volatility and implied volatility as the appropriate yardsticks. One looks backward and is a statistical calculation; the other looks forward and lets market participants estimate future volatility. The VIX gets the bulk of the press, but as a measure of implied volatility, it tells you nothing about what has just happened. …
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Establish General Electric Covered Calls
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A new covered calls position was established today in the Covered Calls Advisor Portfolio(CCAP) as follows:Established General Electric (GE) Covered Calls for Oct08:10/02/08 Bought 200 GE @ $22.2510/02/08 Sold 2 GE Oct08 $22.00 Calls @ $1.53Given GE’s $12B stock offering announced today at $22.25 and the strong likelihood that GE’s offering is successful (given the fact that the underwriting consortium consists of the strongest banks Bank of America, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley), I now have increased confidence that the stock will be able to stay above the $22 strike price for the next 16 days until expiration. In addition, the implied volatility of the GE option was an extraordinarily high 76% when sold this morning thus making the GE option very attractive to sell and also the associated potential annualized return of 131.0% for the covered calls if exercised is especially attractive. …
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Phish Back
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Don Fishback adds this comment on below.I’ll toss a grenade into the debate. VOLATILITY IS THE WRONG THING TO LOOK AT! Not enough time to go into details here. But the bottom line is that you make money in options by guessing the magnitude of a stock’s move over a fixed period of time. In the current hyper-choppy environment a person could buy a straddle and still lose money, even though volatility is rising. Remember, you get paid in dollars, not volatility points. And dollars are won and lost when the stock moves beyond your strategy’s breakeven point….
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- MON Tanks and I Get Naked
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I’m already short one Monsanto (MON) naked put at the October 100 strike (MONVC). I received $419.25 for selling it on August 19th. MON was downgraded today by Merrill Lynch and dropped around $20 to start the day. Since it was trading near the strike yesterday, this knocked a quick chunk out of my account. I opted not to wait around to see what happened, but ADDED to my position while implied volatility was up over 100 at all nearby option strikes.
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- ETNs Fall Under Scrutiny Amid Credit Crisis
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Exchange traded notes (ETNs) have been under increasing scrutiny with the current market conditions, and the recent sinking of Lehman Brothers had investors scrambling for answers concerning the default debt associated with notes.
John Spence for MarketWatch reports that Lehman had three ETNs in existence at the time of the company defaulting on its debt, meaning […]…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Why Are Options So Cheap?
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My friend Bill brings up some very good points in the comments recently. Option volatility, most readily expressed by the VIX, is actually not high relative to actual market volatility….
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Mosaic (NYSE:MOS): Bounce?
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Several tier-1 firms defending Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) following results announced last night:- Morgan Stanley notes the “miss” relative to expectations came on the COGS line, as Mosaic’s revenue came in above our expectations despite lower than anticipated volume. Not surprisingly given the widely reported $100 decline in DAP prices over the past month (i.e., trade magazines have been reporting prices around $1,00 per tonne for several weeks now), Mosaic is choosing to protect price by reducing DAP production during what it believes will be a limited perio…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- The Other Side of the Coin
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Mark from Options For Rookies …
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- ETF-Tracking Dow Jones Dividend Index Changes Component
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The exchange traded fund (ETF)-tracking index, Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index, has undergone some component changes.
Union BanCal Corp. (UB) is deleted from the index and will be replaced by General Electric Co. (GE). UB is being taken off the index because of the recent acquisition by Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. The change will […]…
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2 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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