Archive for: June 2007

I read a good bullish article on Foster Wheeler (FWLT) in the June 18th issue of Barron’s.  It was actually a follow-up on a previous story they ran a while back.  I forgot to bring it in to work …

In my IRA my Boeing (BA) shares were called away a couple of days ago due to my covered call being ITM.  BA closed on Friday at 98.15.  From Friday’s close to now BA has dropped a little over a …

I wrote about ATI a couple of times last week and basically lucked out with Friday’s closing price finishing 4 cents in my favor OTM.  Yesterday ATI dropped back below my previous strike of 110 and today it has bounced …

I read a good article on Yahoo! today that reinforced my Alcoa (AA) naked put selling and my post that went with it on 5/22.  So far, it seems I made the right move, …

I own 100 shares of NYX in both my IRA and my taxable brokerage account.  I sold an August 80 (NYXHP) covered call in each account on NYX this morning as the price of the stock continues to slide.  80 has …

This week’s chart of the one year weekly Dow falls into the same lines from last week, so this post will be short. (Also it’s Father’s Day and I should be warming up the grill now.)

The past 2 weeks shown …

ROFL – Just a couple of days I wrote about my consideration of dumping everything and starting over.  I’m up $1500.00+ since then.  Yes, the decimal is in the right place.  By writing down my thoughts (another example of why …

Among the many reasons for stock declines that pundits threw out there while bond yields went up was that investors might be dumping stocks because the risk premium isn’t worth being in stocks compared to being in bonds.  I understand …

I thought about taking a break from the market while this whole bond yield issue works itself out.  I was thinking that I have had a good run and should just sit back and let the dust settle for a …