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- DOW, S&P, Nasdaq All Up
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The Dow increased 4.7% closing at 8979.26, the Nasdaq was up 5.5% to finish at 1717.71, and the S&P was up 4.3% to finish at 946.43. Leading sectors Coal and Consumable Fuels +13.3%, Education Services 13.2%, Steel 13.1%, Oil and Gas Exploration 12.1%, Gas Utilities 11.4%. Gold will surely make it to the lagging sectors.
Though the rally came on more than average volume, the up volume wasn’t impressive at all. The new lows also increased. Net net, poor market internals in the face of a “strong” reversal, far short of saying any strong bounce.
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Original Source: www.optionpundit.net
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Crude Oil - Glide and Slide
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Adam from the Marketclub made a free new video on the “Glide and Slide” of crude oil. Crude oil has been hammered from highs of almost $150 per barrel in July to intra-day dip of below $70 on Thurs due to forecast of lower demand as a result of recession fears. The Energy Select Sector SPDR (XLE) and US Oil Fund ETF (AMEX: USO) mirror the moves of crude oil. So if you are interested in trading the crude oil using options, you can use XLE and USO as alternative vehicle. Below is a comparison chart of USO (in blue) and XLE. Unfortunately, the charting tool is not able to reflect crude oil. You can refer to t…
Original Source: simplyoptionstrading.blogspot.com
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- California Could Get Much-Needed Assist From Bond ETF
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Like just about everyone these days, California is looking for ways to raise cash and pay bills until tax revenue arrives later this year, and exchange traded funds (ETFs) may be the route to access the notes the state is offering.
California sold almost half of the $4 billion of notes it is……
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Tom Lydon Talks ETF Entry Strategies on Fox Business
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Tom Lydon talked about using the 50-day moving average with exchange traded funds (ETFs) as a strategy for getting back into the markets when there’s a recovery….
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Dow, ETFs Recover, But VIX Says This Isn’t Over
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It was an impressive finish for Wall Street and exchange traded funds (ETFs) after the way things were looking this morning.
After falling 380 points at the open, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed more than 400 points higher. This was in defiance of several negative economic reports,……
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Treasury ETFs May Not Shield Investors
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Fear has been dictating many market decisions, and as investors run for the shelter of Treasury bonds and related exchange traded funds (ETFs), they may regret letting emotion into the equation.
The recent financial plan to get credit and lending flowing among the markets may eventually accelerate……
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- We Will Fail Miserably or Capitulate Today - Watch SPY 85!
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Once the selling sets in, there’s no stopping this freight train. The market was already pointing lower before yesterday’s open and dismal economic data fueled the decline. A bigger than expected rise in core PPI and weak retail sales added to existing pessimism. This morning, a better than expected CPI and a small decrease in initial jobless claims helped to boost the market. Continuing jobless claims are still rising and they are above 3.7 million. After the open, industrial production was released and it fell 2.8% in September (the biggest decline in nearly 34 years). The hurricanes and the Boeing strike …
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- How’s This for Volatilty?
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How nutty are the Oct. options prices?The Oct. 93 straddle in SPY is trading for about $5.70. In a “normal” market (remember those) this would be trading for maybe $2. At the most. QQQQ Oct. 32 straddle is trading for $1.70. That one might be a third of that in a different world….
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Regional Bank ETFs Could Get Behind Treasury Plan
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The Treasury’s recent decision to pump $250 billion into the banking sector may wind up helping the regional banks and exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Laurie Kulikowski for TheStreet reports that the federal government on Tuesday said it would allocate the funds from the $700 billion troubled……
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- While Oil Prices Are Grounded, Airline ETF Isn’t Soaring
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First, rising oil burns the airlines and transportation exchange traded funds (ETFs). Now, one airline is getting burned by falling oil prices. How does that work?
For the first time in 17 years, Southwest (LUV) has lost money on the basis of falling oil, which forced them to write down the value……
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Even More To Learn About the VIX
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OK, great discussion here on Power Lunch on the VIX. NOT.First off, the VIX is a normalized 30 day reading of a hypothetical ATM option in SPX. EXPIRATION HAS VERY LITTLE TO DO WITH IT. VIX is weighted, so ergo an option with 1 day to go has relatively small impact on the calculation. It will decline modestly when Octs expire since Octs are thru the roof. That’s the Octs in the SPX I should note, NOT Octs in the VIX products. They have literally nothing to do with the calculation of the actual VIX….
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Surprise Factory Order Drop Hurts Industrial ETFs
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A sharper-than-expected drop in factory activity had markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs) sinking lower this morning.
The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank said business activity unexpectedly fell to -37.5 in October, from 3.8 in September, reports Ellis Mnyandu for Reuters. The numbers are……
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- VIX:VXV to 1.51
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There is no such thing as a guaranteed bottom, but there is a high probability that we just confirmed a bottom…depending, of course, on the volume of hedge fund liquidations still to come…
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/VixAndMore
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Support Broached in NDX
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Other major indices continue to hold above Friday’s lows…
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Welcome to the 80s: VIX at 81.17
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…and the Oct 100 calls now at 1.40 - 1.60…
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/VixAndMore
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- VIX Spikes to Record of 77.72
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…in relatively orderly selling. The VIX just surpassed the previous all-time high of 76.92, which was set last Friday.Also of interest, Oct 100 calls just traded at 1.00…
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/VixAndMore
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Down Goes My Laptop
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Yes, wonderful start to the day here. Went to take a sip of ice coffee and the top came off and the whole gallon or so spilled over among other things, my Macbook. Here’s hoping those geeks at The Genius Bar can save it….
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Sold New USO and AA Calls
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Oil ETF USO has been killing me. This is one I should’ve bought puts on a long time ago when I thought it was coming down. I didn’t close my long position I had because I thought the drop would be brief. If I had the mindset earlier that I’ve developed recently I’d have bought puts and tried to profit on them as I held my long position for the potential upside. I didn’t do that until recently and made a small profit on those puts, but lost more on the shares falling. Not too smart frankly.
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- VIX Oct 100 Calls: Bid 0.55 - Ask 0.95
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The Oct 90 calls are 1.00 -1.40…
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Infrastructure Gets More Play With Two New ETFs
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Investors are getting two new ways to gain exposure to the infrastructure sector with a pair of exchange traded funds (ETFs).
First Trust launched the ISE Global Engineering and Construction Index Fund (FLM) on Wednesday, while PowerShares Emerging Markets Infrastructure Portfolio (PXR).
FLM……
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16 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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