Archive for: May 2007

Jim Cramer is ranting about Dow stocks this week.  I think he’s on to something with Alcoa Inc (NYSE: AA).  While trading at 39.41, I sold 3 OTM puts on AA at the July 37.50 strike …

NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) is fun to watch.  I read a good article today on thestreet.com and thought I’d pass it along - http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/stockpickr/10357593.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

I own 100 shares of NYX and have a covered call with a June 90 strike.  …

As expected my shares of SLB were “called away” with my covered call for a nice profit over 4 months that started with me selling ITM puts that were assigned to me and then OTM calls that were called away. …

Comcast Corp (CMCSA) is up nearly $1.50 in the past six trading days.  Today ends the third options contract I’ve sold on CMCSA and it finished $.03 ITM, only crossing the $27.50 mark again in the final minute of the …

I’ve tried to go against Cramer’s picks in the past, but the man moves stocks too much to fight him.  I looked back on my notes on why I sold the FSLR puts a couple of weeks ago and one …

I wrote about Western Digital a few days ago and my order hit today while WDC was trading at 17.83.  Two days after I wrote my first WDC post it fell below its 10 day moving average.  Today its below its …

I’ve written two other posts over the month about Grupo Telvisa (ticker: TV) seemed like a solid pick, but the chart didn’t match what I like to see.  Now it does.  It found support on its trend line of higher …

Hain Celestial Group (ticker: HAIN) has had a rough May.  After strong 3Q gains, they said they would miss street estimates for 4Q.  That news came out on May 3rd and yet HAIN’s stock price continued to rise for the …