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- UltraShort Oil ETF Offers Opportunity As Price Falls
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Oil keeps heading lower most days, but that doesn’t mean investors don’t have a change to profit with exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Oil is heading toward $50 per barrel and there’s sentiment that any OPEC production cuts will not be able to stop this slip downward, reports Andrew……
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Sell OTM Put Options - Distance Yourself From The Action!
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Yesterday, the market started off on a weak note and it never recovered. The gains from Friday afternoon and Monday have been erased and the market is struggling to hold a bid today. Given the big decline right on the open and the fact that we have not seen a decent bounce in the first two hours tells me that more trouble lies ahead this afternoon. Good news is overpowered by bad news. After the close Tuesday, Yahoo and Apple both announced earnings. Yahoo beat lowered estimates and they plan to lay off 10% of their workforce. Apple beat estimates handily …
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Worries Send Dow Down, Investors Clinging to Treasuries
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Stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs) were battered today, starting off the morning on a down note and remaining there.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) came out with a downbeat report that didn’t help matters, saying that the U.S. economy’s growth would be close to zero or……
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Three Theses on Volatility
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Following up on our recent post about VIX futures, a reader asked:
If you want to get short volatility, why not just sell some of those VIX futures here, or maybe a vertical spread of VIX options? Why mess around with equity indexes at all?
Good question. The difference depends on what you mean by “volatility.” VIX futures are a pure vega play, which is to say that they give you exposure to changes in implied volatility, but that’s i…
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Mutual Funds Can Have Tax Shocker; ETFs Don’t
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Both mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) have taken their licks in the downturn, but mutual funds are about to start adding insult to investor injury.
Even though the average U.S. diversified stock fund is down 33% through Monday, investors might find themselves having to pay big tax……
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Capitalism, Baby!
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So way back on September 24th, Nate Silver flagged a rather odd disparity in the Prediction Markets.T…
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Alternative Energy And ETFs Vulnerable To Market Winds
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Proponents of alternative energy and the sector’s exchange traded funds (ETFs) were among the few rejoicing at the higher cost of oil. But now that prices are less than half of what they were at their all-time peak, suddenly the industry
Evidently the alternative energy sources such as wind……
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Sold New DIA Puts
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With the markets taking another dive today I bought my original naked puts back for a profit this morning since I expected the fall to continue through the day and now that it’s down deeper I decided to get back in at a lower strike. I do not claim this is a bottom, but do think I am making a fairly safe trade since I own two December 84 puts which will stop my losses if DIA falls deeper than $75.00 before November options expiration.
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Pharmaceutical ETFs Ailing as Consumers Trim Costs
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Exchange traded funds (ETFs) targeting the pharmaceutical sector can’t seem to win: some companies are getting dinged by a consumer rush to generics, while others are getting hit because some people don’t want to shell out the money for any drugs, period.
For the first time in a decade,……
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- SPX Options Carpet Bomb Pushes VIX SOQ to 63.04 (!)
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Kudos to Adam at Daily Options Report for getting all over the VIX expiration story a little earlier. In Time for an In-VIX-Tigation? Adam wonders about the large number of SPX options trades at the open today.In the table below, I have reconstructed the details of this attack, which appeared to involve the purchase of close to 300,000 puts (all of which were opening transactions for that strike) and a grand investment of about $150 million….
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Earnings Reports Fire Up ETF Investors’ Nerves
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Wall Street and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are feeling woozy this morning after a slew of less-than-stellar earnings reports. Now that credit markets are improving, the focus is turning to the corporate earnings that have been issued in recent days, many of them heightening fears of a deep……
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Time For an In-VIX-tigation?
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So VIX options expired today. They are cash settled.What does that mean?Well, let’s say it’s a stock or ETF and you own an ITM call. When the call expires, you exercise and receive shares of the stock/ETF. But if it’s cash settled, you get delivery of …..nothing. You just get cashed out. So in other words, let’s say you own 1 VIX Oct 40 call. And the VIX “opens” at 60 on expiration. You effectively sell the option for $20, or $2000 (the difference between your strike price and the expiration price). And that’s it, you have no more position….
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- CBOE Offers New VIX Term Structure Data
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I noticed today that the CBOE has decided to devote a portion of the VIX section of their web site to VIX term structure information. The CBOE’s VIX term structure page, which I believe is new as of yesterday of today, uses yesterday’s data and has a graph of the term structure of the VIX and a table of VIX term structure data going out through December 2010. In addition, there is a downloadable spreadsheet with historical term structure data going back to 1992. …
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Closed DIA Short, Added to USO Calls and Sold SSO Naked Puts
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I started the morning by taking a profit. On October 17th I sold two November 83 puts (DAVWE) at $4.30 and received $848.50, today while trading DIA was trading at $88.02 I bought to close DAVWE at $3.50 and paid $711.49 with commissions. That gave me a realized profit of $137.01 for this trade. I’m still long (aka own) two December 84 puts which I’m holding as a small hedge. If the Dow falls much more I’ll probably sell new November puts and try to make another short term profit although that will eliminate my hedge.
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Apple Redux
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How we looking the day after in this Brave New World? Not a whole lot different than in the Old World.AAPL beat by a lot, pretended the future will suck, yada yada. The world knew all that going in. Problem is sometimes they pound AAPL on that. But didn’t happen as AAPL went out last night near $104, up 13% or so off the close….
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Biotech ETFs Stay Healthy Despite Market Ills
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Biotechnology, while hurting along with the rest of the market, is one of the few that can boast market outperformance during these tough market times, evidenced in the performance of the related exchange traded funds (ETFs).
Billy Fisher for TheStreet points out that while the S&P 500 has lost……
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Mosaic (NYSE:MOS): Mosaic Company Extreme Oversold Condition Changing Rating from Sell to Strong Buy with $60 Price Target - SISR
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Strategic International Securities Research (SISR) is upgrading Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) to Strong Buy from Sell with a $60 price tgt (from $33). Firm is reversing their Sell rating on the stock to adding it to their recommended list.Firm notes they are looking for current quarterly earnings to come in at $2.18, and full year estimate of $10.63 on revenues of $16.2 Billion. They believe that there will be a period of readjustment for Mosaic with both price declines and output reduced. Mosaic and the industry however are very effective at holding prices up by reducing output. SISR expects this to be the pattern for the coming months and even year or so as the price of these commodities adjusts to the international condition of a worldwide slowdown. Their projections are that output will be reduced by about 10% with prices declining by 20% to 30% over the next year. Given that price have increased by more than 400% this decline is relative by comparison….
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Big VIXin’
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Interesting trade yesterday in VIX products, as noted by Options Monster about 3 minutes into the video.Customer sells 45,000 November 26 calls to buy 45,000 December 32.50 calls for $10.95.What’s his bet? Currently the Nov. futures trade at an 8 pt. premium to Dec. futures (45 vs. 37). So if that spread evaporates, he figures to win big.One way for that to happen of course is for the VIX to get slammed. If the VIX drifts back to the mid 20’s around November expiration, he’s pocket the $10.95, plus whatever residual value is left in the Decs….
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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- Regional Bank ETF Index Gets Component Change
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We might be seeing a rash of financial index component changes down the line that will affect their exchange traded funds (ETFs) as the uncertainty of our banking system continues.
For now, the underlying index of the KBW Regional Banks (KRE) fund will have some changes. This ETF has managed to……
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22 October, 2008| Derivatives |
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