Archive for: October 2007

Not that I focus on my IRA here, but I just made two trades that I hope will perform well for me.  I bought 300 shares of CSCO at 31.40 and 200 shares of EBAY at 36.62.  I have mentioned …

I haven’t made it through this week’s Barron’s yet and don’t see it happening.  I read more than half of it, but couldn’t get into it with most of the stocks they highlighted.  I was surprised to see Michael Santoli moving …

As I mentioned earlier, October was another very good month for me.  I had options on NYX, AAPL, CHTT, JOYG, PCU and CRDN.  All finished out of the money for me, even after the strong pull back last week.  I …

I thought last week was fun, you?  In my DJIA charting post last week I said I thought the Dow was ready for a pull back to the 10 and 20 week moving averages.  Not that this blog is about self …

These are the days that can really help out a portfolio in the longer run.  Just like in previous days where we got a big drop in a single day, fear takes off as stocks tank.  The VIX is up …

I’ll be selling my NYX shares with options expiration upon us this weekend.  I am exiting the position with a profit as I planned when I wrote my most recent covered calls on NYX, although the stock itself is down from when I …

Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show headlined dry shipping companies last night.  I took a deeper look at four of them that he mentioned: PRGN, OCNF, GNK and DSX.  The first two don’t trade options so I stopped there.  The latter two …

For anyone interested in covered call selling, consider understanding naked put selling as a better option.  The risk/reward graph of both methods will show writing naked put options is the same as writing covered call options.  (selling = writing, for those …

I exited my naked puts on DISH that I sold three weeks ago.  I only had two days and 2 hours to go before the put options expired, but the WSJ had an …