Archive for: October 2007

I put a poll on the right side of the sidebar to ask if you keep any type of trader’s journal for your stock and options trades.  Any type of investing or trading journal qualifies for this poll.  Even a …

Jim Cramer mentioned Motorola last night on Mad Money as a good stock pick right now.  Generally his picks will spike for a couple of days and then drop back a little below the closing price from the day before …

I’ve found that one of the reasons I’ve become so much more consistent with my gains in the stock market over the past few years is the patience I’ve developed as an investor.  I used to try to trade once …

I made three updates to My Trader’s Journal over the past couple of days. 

1.  I’ve started keeping a MTJ ”Stock Market Sentiment” rating at the very top of my home page.  This will generally be based on …

For those who don’t read Barron’s (you should) the format is pretty basic.  It generally comes in two sections unless there’s a special.  Each section starts with one or two long articles summarizing the past week’s market activity.  Following the …

I’m charting trend lines for the Dow ($INDU) again this week.  For the second week in a row the Dow closed above the July intraday high.  I’ve drawn three major up trending lines.  The top line has acted as the ceiling …

I just can’t seem to get my rhythm in my IRA like I can in my taxable account.  I stopped selling covered calls only to see my stocks pull back.  Then I started to sell again when I briefly thought the market wasn’t …

Yesterday I closed above the $75,000 balance mark in my brokerage account for the first time.  I’ve finally decided to use this arbitrary number as an excuse to start using my name on my blog.  I’m Alexander Fotopoulos.  That’s a mouthful, isn’t it?  I’ll …

I was eyeing Boeing (BA) for a naked put late this morning and just happened to hit refresh one last time before I entered my order.  BA went from $0.14 down to up by $0.85 and then came back down …