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- OPNewsletter : Oct’08 (+9%)
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What a tubulent week! For the week ending Oct 17, here is the market tally. Dow closed at +4.7%, S&P500 almost similar +4.7%, NDX: +3.3%, Nasdaq (COMPQ) +3.6% and Russell 2000 almost flat at +0.75%.
For OPNewsletter, it was rather an unusual week. We opened one mini-portfolio consisting of options in Russell 2000, that was officially closed for +9% gains including commissions. Thereafter sensing market collapse I stayed away from investing for OPNewsletter we were in cash throughout the past 4weeks. C…
Original Source: www.optionpundit.net
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- GARTMAN’S RULES OF TRADING – Part 2: Trading System & Money Management
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Go back to Part 1: Trading PsychologyTRADING SYSTEM & MONEY MANAGEMENT7. Never, under any circumstance add to a losing position…. ever!Nothing more need be said; to do otherwise will eventually and absolutely lead to ruin!8. Trade like a mercenary guerrilla….
Original Source: optionstradingbeginner.blogspot.com
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- ETF Spotlight: CurrencyShares Japanese Yen (FXY)
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ETF Spotlight on CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (FXY), part of a recurring series.
Assets
$843 million
Holdings
This fund seeks to track the price of the Japanese yen.Brief summary of the sector or area the fund covers: This fund began on Feb. 12, 2007, and tracks the national currency of……
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/etftrends-feed
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- VIX Closes Over 70 for First Time (70.33)
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The VIX managed to tick above the 70 mark in the last minute of trading today to surpass last Friday’s record close of 69.95. The volatility index had spend all of the last three hours of trading below the previous record, but jumped higher after the equity market closed and just as index options trading was winding down at 4:15 p.m. ET.The VIX’s intra-day high of 74.48 never challenged yesterday’s record of 81.17, but the spike at the close suggests that investors continue to remain skittish about weekend headline risk. Warren Buffet may be saying “b…
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/VixAndMore
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Credit Market Improves - Buy In Small Size - Add On Follow Through!
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Yesterday, the market staged a nice rally after a weak opening. The SPY 85 level held and we never quite reached it before buyers stepped in. Thursday’s reversal was needed and the market is showing its first signs of stabilization in weeks. We are not out of the woods yet and one bad day can push us below that support level. The market has already factored in weak economic news. Today, consumer confidence dropped to its lowest level ever, home construction fell to a new 17-year low and housing permits fell to a 27-year low. Earnings this week have been decent …
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Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/oneOptionBlog
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Keeping It Cool With ETFs In These Markets
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The best way to keep the emotional-investing habit in check when it comes to exchange traded funds (ETFs) is to have a strategy.
Our strategy hinges on the long-term trend line (200-day moving average), which represents the average closing price over a set time period. In less dire market……
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/etftrends-feed
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Closed QCOM and USO Calls for a Profit and Added to DIA Position
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I literally waited until the last minute today to finish my trades for this options’ expiration. My USO and QCOM call options were my only two that were near their options’ strike giving me a profit to work with. I’m accepting all other option assignments as the come. I blew off work for the final 30 minutes of trading today and watched these two and the respective options’ prices shift minute to minute with great fear and fun. The difference I could make or lose was only a few dollars, so really it was more fun and interesting than anything else.
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Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MyTradersJournal
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Cool New Site
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Hard to explain twitter without actually using it. But if you’re on, check out Stocktwits.com. It basically picks up conversations on Twitter that use a ticker symbol prefixed by a $ sign. It’s a bit of chat room meets digg meets charting site….
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Effort to Avoid a Repeat Could Bolster Asia’s ETFs
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The ongoing market turmoil is leaving many Asian markets and exchange traded funds (ETFs) with unpleasant flashbacks to their own crisis more than 10 years ago.
Few rejoiced more than Asia when the massive intervention by both American and European governments was announced. But they haven’t……
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/etftrends-feed
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Bond ETFs Trade At Discount to NAV
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The credit crisis has suddenly made certain areas a lot more interesting than they normally would be: just look at commercial paper and bond exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Record volatility in the markets has wound up creating a gap between the value of bond ETF holdings and what the ETFs are……
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/etftrends-feed
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Consequences of Crisis Touch Far-Flung ETFs
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A world away from Wall Street, the most fundamental elements that run our economy such as ore and steel will be feeling the consequences of the financial crisis, a situation that could reflect across exchange traded funds (ETFs) in most industries.
A slump in basic materials prices will be met with……
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/etftrends-feed
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Do It Yourself Stock Repair
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“Sorry Jessica, really have to take this call”.Any time a stock gets baked, I see articles on the “stock repair” play. Like this one from the S…
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Consumers’ Mood, Homebuilder ETFs Continue to Suffer
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Home construction exchange traded funds (ETFs) are down this morning after a report showed the production is at its slowest pace in 17 years.
The 6.3% plunge was much larger than expected, reports Martin Crutsinger for the Associated Press. Economists had predicted at 1.6% decline.
A barometer of……
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/etftrends-feed
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Video about Gold
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If you’re trading gold through GLD or maybe the spot market, or through mining stocks — you need to see this video:
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Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewOptionTrader
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- VIX Futures Market Outlook
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It’s been interesting to watch the VIX futures over the past few weeks. While the action in SPX options has pushed the cash VIX up to fascinating extremes, the longer-dated VIX futures have been somewhat less responsive, as you’d expect. Which is not to say that VIX futures have been u…
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/condoroptions
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Correction
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So when I critiqued some Power Lunch misinfo on the VIX yesterday, made an error myself. I said this……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. …
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- TED Spread and VIX Both Coming Back to Earth?
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It remains to be seen whether yesterday’s new high of 81.17 in the VIX turns out to be the top in that index. Personally, I think there is a good possibility that 81.17 holds up for many years, but I also believe that it is even more likely that the TED spread (which measures the difference between L…
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/VixAndMore
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- ETFs Are Changing the Investment Landscape
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Exchange traded funds (ETFs) first came to the public in 1993 in an effort to transform the typical, everyday monotony of the mutual fund.
And the ETF came to us in a perfectly bundled basket of stocks, ready to trade throughout the day as a single stock, while offering the diversification that……
Original Source: http://feeds.feedburner.com/etftrends-feed
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Sunpower (NASDAQ:SPWRA): Downgraded at Citi and Merrill Lynch
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Sunpower (NASDAQ:SPWRA) has some nasty comments from several tier-1 firms:- Citigroup notes that following through on their call into what they thought would be the last good Q before big risk develops, they are downgrading SPWRA from Hold to Sell taking advantage of ~25% move post-earnings. The Street is already negative on this sector (firm highlighted ’09 supply shock back in May ’08), but this is a 100% stock-specific call. Th…
Original Source: notablecalls.blogspot.com
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Even More Volatility
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OK, more visual evidence stocks are absurdly volatile?The graph above shows 10 Day HV over the past 6 month’s for SPY. That’s the volatility of the stock itself based on the move from the day before and the day’s range, calculated as an MA over the past 10 trading days. And it’s about 100 now. Meaning that 80 VIX STILL doesn’t quite get to what’s going on each and every day….
Original Source: adamsoptions.blogspot.com
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17 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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