Archive for: June 2007

June 21, 2007

Barron’s Midyear Roundtable - June 18, 2007

Filed under: Finance, Media, Reading - 21 Jun 2007

For those who don’t subscribe to Barron’s (you should), this week included an update from the roundtable they did at the beginnning of the year.  It started like this:
“DOW 14,000, OR BUST.

Suddenly either alternative seems possible for stocks, as the …

June 20, 2007

Foster Wheeler Ltd (FWLT) Naked Puts

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 20 Jun 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 …

June 19, 2007

Boeing Co (BA) Covered Calls

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 19 Jun 2007

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 …

Allegheny Technologies Inc (ATI) Naked Puts

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 19 Jun 2007

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 …

June 18, 2007

Alcoa (AA) Update

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 18 Jun 2007

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, …

NYSE Euronext (NYX) covered calls vs naked puts

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 18 Jun 2007

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 …

June 16, 2007

Charting the Dow ($INDU)

Filed under: Finance, Indices - 16 Jun 2007

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 …

June 15, 2007

Waiting Pays Off

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 15 Jun 2007

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 …

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