CallWriter Sale

Read the full article → August 31, 2011

Although I don’t write much about Covered Calls and Naked Puts in my posts, it doesn’t mean that I don’t use that strategy in my accounts. I’ll make a confession – I like a little more action, which is why I prefer option spreads and that what I prefer to write about. Ok, now that’s [...]

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High Fliers

Read the full article → August 30, 2011

Nothing frightens me more than the extremes the market is putting in right now. Directional bets are a coin toss, especially with options spreads, since they need time in order to give us returns. But I believe there are some companies out there that no matter what (well, sort of), you can count on their [...]

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Why You Need a Trading Plan

Read the full article → August 29, 2011

Carrie Underwood (compliments of tradethemarkets.com) tells it like it is. Listen carefully. This is extremely entertaining and I hope you enjoy it. (You must click on the post title to see this) . . . Happy Trading ◄Jeff►

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One Triggers All the Others

Read the full article → August 27, 2011

I have a reader in Australia, specifically in Orange, I believe, that is usually sleeping when the US market is open. That seems to be the only negative for living there. After all, Crocodile Dundee is one of my favorites. I really enjoy hearing from him since he always has some very thought provoking questions. [...]

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Things Go Better with Coke

Read the full article → August 17, 2011

That was Coke’s slogan back in 1963 when I was 14 years old. You could usually find me at the local soda fountain drinking chocolate Cokes or chocolate phosphates and reading the latest Superman comics. Since that time, other slogans have been introduced like “Coke is it!”, “Life tastes good” and the current “Life Begins [...]

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Some Suggestions for This Market

Read the full article → August 9, 2011

My ears are popping we’re dropping so fast. Is this a good time for bearish directional plays? I offer a cautious yes, but… Get your trusty charts out and take a look at 2008. Although the trend overall was down, there were some very big moves up too. One thing we know for sure lately, [...]

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Priceline – Are you a Bull or Bear

Read the full article → August 3, 2011

Priceline (PCLN) has earnings tomorrow, August 4th, after the market closes. Based on their chart (below) there really is no way to make a prediction based on that, since the price in currently in a consolidation phase – but that may say something too. I’m going to outline two spread plays, both with the same [...]

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Bullish on GOOG?

Read the full article → July 28, 2011

Right now I am. Lately I have been opening more ITM or ATM Credit Spreads betting on the direction of price movement over a short period of time. This works best on Weeklys and even better on Weeklys and earnings – as with AAPL and AMZN recently – provided you get the direction right. Still, [...]

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Dirty Harry and The Residue of Design

Read the full article → July 26, 2011

Guest Post by Bruce Binenfeld – who lives in Columbus, OH and is fighting the good fight daily with Mr. Market. His hedge is owning and operating Cloud 8 Marketing, LLC. Bruce and I have been interacting for over a year. He has a good head on his shoulders, whereas sometimes I lose mine. . [...]

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It’s Been a Long Time

Read the full article → July 24, 2011

I have to apologize for my absence. It wasn’t for lack of interest, I just had two family issues that happened at roughly the same time that took my head totally out of the game since the end of June. Fortunately, everything turned out all right. As a result of that, I had to put [...]

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