Archive for: September 2007

I haven’t charted the NASDAQ Composite Index ($COMPX) here before now.  I think I might have taken a good time to give it a look.  The chart I’ve drawn shows the past year of the …

The rumors have been floating around for a while that AT&T (T) planned to extend their reach into people’s houses with a better TV offering.  Now it appears Echostar (DISH) is the target.  T wants to pay around $55 per share …

A friend of mine educated me on the basics of options at a very small New Year’s eve party at the end of 1998.  I’ve been hooked since then.  He was a certified financial planner and was able to explain …

These are the opportunities I’ll miss when I’m in a job that actually keeps me busy.  When GM was off its early morning highs and trading at 35.80, I sold three November 32.50 naked puts (GMWZ) and received $317.75 after …

Adobe (ADBE) bounced off its rising trend line of higher lows yesterday and had a great finish to the day.  I have 200 shares in my IRA and had a limit in to sell two new covered calls on it for November …

I wrote about Anixter International (AXE) a few weeks ago and exchanged some comments about AXE after it broke the 78 level I was asking for.  Yesterday morning while entering the pile of …

I certainly didn’t mean to make five trades today, but that’s how it worked out.  The first three were planned as I originally wrote, BNI was supposed to hit in a few days and the fifth, AMDOCS (DOX) was just …

After writing about Burlington Northern Sante Fe (BNI) a few weeks ago I might have misjudged this one today.  I put a limit in for BNI this morning based on the idea that the chart looked …

I started off the week with a few trades this morning.  I went right back to the stocks I just had options expire on to start with before moving to the other list I wrote …