Archive for: June 2008

I updated my current stock and option portfolio page with my current positions and will update my month end results at the end of business today.  If all of my July naked puts are assigned I’d …

Last week I charted the Dow Jones and said the break of the trend line was a bearish indicator.  The only hope would be that …

This is turning into a recurring theme for me.  Instead of finding new stocks to trade on, I’m going back to previous winners and trading again.  This time I came back to Monsanto (MON) to try to squeeze out another …

Just after 3:00 pm yesterday my order to sell VIP naked puts hit.  While VIP was trading at $29.32 I sold two VIP August naked puts (VIQTF) and received $438.50 after commissions.  I raised my limit order during the day …

It’s been more than 30 days since I took my loss on NVDA.  That allows me to avoid the wash rule and get back in to trying to pull out a profit on it.  If I had gotten right back …

I bought back the CELG naked put I had for last week’s June option expiration.  I would have done better to let it get assigned and then either sold the stock for a profit (trading at 61.30 now at 1:41 …

I’ve only made one trade for August options expiration and that was a covered call.  I just can’t find the stocks I want to sell naked puts on.  I have one limit order in to sell naked puts on NVDA again.  …

Since I bought my covered calls back on VIP on Friday, I wanted to cover them with new calls today as soon as I saw VIP wasn’t heading up again yet.  I bought my calls back with the hopes that VIP would …

When I first charted the Dow Jones Industrial Average, aka DJIA (ticker: $DJI) this morning I looked at the three month daily chart to see how bad the short term looked.  I missed charting last week, but would have pointed out …