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. The way James Altucher tells it I should buy my call back and hang on…
Month: May 2007
Account Holdings Update
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. My CMCSA shares were called away too, although it could have gone either way with CMCSA. …
CMCSA Extends Recent Run
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 day after making a run as high as $27.64 mid-day. This was fun to watch…
Cramer Hates Solar
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 of my factors was Cramer being bullish on them. With that factor reversed now I…
Sold Western Digital (WDC) Naked Puts
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 20 day moving average while I write this. The 20 day was acting as good…
Chart for Grupo Televisa SA (TV) Turns Bullish
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 lows and in a surge (although on a little weaker volume) it moved back over…
Charting Hain Celestial Group Inc.
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 next few days hitting a high on May 7th before starting its downward spiral. It…
Nucor (NUE) Covered Call
In my IRA, my May 70 call for PCU was assigned to me today, 4.5 trading days before expiration. I sold it (covered) on 3/20 at the money and it was assigned today, 5/14, when it was $17.50 ITM. This happens to me sometimes in the week of expiration for those options I have that are…
My Returns According to Quicken
Here’s an update on my returns as of this morning, 5/14/07 – pre-market according to Quicken: 12 months: 22.33% YTD Annualized: 40.17% 40.17% annualized YTD – that’s crazy! I don’t expect to keep that track record running. This bull market has made it easy since I rarely get caught on a loss these days. I know it will turn…