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In the last few months, we’ve risked some capital on some quick trades, especially around earnings reports. Indeed, we traded the following stocks to the long side using call options before their respective reports: Apple Google Sandisk Marvell Ciena And we got pretty lucky on all of them, having
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Quite a power move higher in the markets and most individual stocks this afternoon. Indeed, that’s the kind of stealth rally that can make the bears quiver in their boots. Someone’s quivering in their boots anyway: The calls in the portfolio continued to kick in again today, as
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Here’s a list of my positions, both longs and shorts in approximate size from biggest to smallest: Longs – * Sandisk * Google * Apple * Riverbed * Cisco * Nuance * Microsoft * Cypress * Marvell * Autodesk * Ciena * DBA * Corning * Visteon * Adtran Shorts – * LPS * Wells Fargo * Cablevision * Live Nation * SLV As for the markets, well, so much for
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The markets were down and down big to open the day. But the selling pressure lifted almost immediately and the Nasdaq even got itself green for a bit here. Sandisk tried to get back through $40, but got slapped down at $39.99. I’ve got a lot of that
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Greece and the banks and Germany’s will to bail out other Euro countries. Have you heard?! These are the headlines that matter today…at least according to the mainstream media. I haven’t done a “Must-reads” posts with links in a while. Here’s some of what I’m
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Guys, I am having a real-hard time with my emotional state as we head into the tenth anniversary of 9/11. I’m going to step away from the markets and the economy and deal with some of my own issues here this weekend. Here’s something I wrote about
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“Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.” — Buddha The markets have taken a nasty turn down intra-morning here. That said, it’s Friday….and I’ve heard more than one trader ponder outloud to me today
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There was a speech by some leader of the supposed “Free World” last night? Ah, yes. The Republican/Democrat Regime’s current puppet leader came out with a $500 billion corporate welfare program to further boost the biggest companies’ earnings last night. Corporate profits as a percentage of GDP were
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It’s a flattish opening, but we’ve got some more fireworks going off already this morning. Sandisk is up another 4% to start the day…what a ride we’ve had in that one in the last week: That is a five day chart that looks more like a
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Mmm, Wide awake and he shakes in a panic. Never woke up alone ever before. Had his woman long as he can remember. Tries to forget but he can’t, he can’t. Out of bed and he dreams in the shower. She’s standing naked and apologizing. Reaches for
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Markets are rallying big time today, and they’re now back above where they were even before the big trashed open we returned from Labor Day weekend: Aren’t you glad you didn’t panic at that open like so many others did? I’ve not pulled any trading triggers
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There is going to be an veritable barrage of new tablets hitting the markets this winter and into next year. The incredible shrinking price of the recently released-dropped-then-brought-back-at-least-temporarily TouchPad from the geniuses running Hewlett-Packard HPQ +0.97% has opened a lot of eyes in the industry this summer. See, Blackberry
