Archive for: May 2008

May 10, 2008

Dow Jones (DJIA) Chart - May 9, 2008

Filed under: Finance, Indices, Stock Charts - 10 May 2008

I am recharting the DJIA ($DJI) this week using a slighty different angle for the upward trending line of higher highs.  I’m doing this for two reasons.  One is to show that picking the exact points on a chart can …

May 8, 2008

Fascinating Read on DeepCapture.com

Filed under: Reading, Media - 08 May 2008

I pulled this from “In Play” on Yahoo! Finance today. They referenced this press release from overstock.com’s Web site.  (I watch In Play throughout the day to get the short story on what’s moving the markets.)
9:08AM Overstock.com issues press release …

May 7, 2008

Sold Alcoa (AA) Naked Puts, Again

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 07 May 2008

In my hunt for stocks to sell options on, I started treking back through previous trades I’ve made and came upon AA Tuesday morning.  I think AA won’t fall much, if at all and put a limit in to sell …

My Traders Journal is a PR4 Blog Now

Filed under: Uncategorized - 07 May 2008

I think this is cool.  I’ve been writing for a little over a year now and my Google Page Rank is now 4.  I haven’t done much social networking since I started my new job and don’t see much more …

May 6, 2008

Trying to Grow with Monsanto (MON), Again

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 06 May 2008

Once again I’m back in on Monsanto (MON).  I’ve sold multiple naked puts on MON over the past year and now that it has pulled back from its recent highs, I’m back in again with the hopes that it will …

May 5, 2008

Sold Naked Puts on AAPL, Again

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 05 May 2008

I got out too early last time around and now that Apple (AAPL) has gone up another $50, I’m back in.  While AAPL was trading at $183.24, I sold one AAPL June 170 …

May 4, 2008

Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJI) Chart - May 2, 2008

Filed under: Finance, Indices, Stock Charts - 04 May 2008

I’m back to charting the Dow Jones (aka “DJIA” or symbol “$DJI”) today.  It finally broke above 13,000 and even stayed above it on Friday.  That put the DJIA above the line of resistance at 13k and since I last …

May 1, 2008

Shutterfly (SFLY) Misses on Revenue

Filed under: Finance, Stock Picks - 01 May 2008

Is it bad form to quote myself?  When I wrote about SFLY a couple of days ago I said “I wouldn’t be too surprised to see SFLY below 15 by the end of the week.”  …