Archive for: July 2008

I’m glad to be done with July.  I finished the month with a realized gain of $736.04, but have a pile of paper losses waiting for a rebound or to be realized when I close my positions.  On paper, I lost …

I finished July options expiration with a full profit on QCOM and planned to get back in last week, but had some other orders hit before my QCOM order could.  I don’t like selling all of my month’s options within …

This morning I charted the three year weekly chart for the S&P 500 ($SPX.X) ending Friday, July 25, 2008.  I started off trying to find a bullish trend line I could point out that showed something positive for us to see and …

Chesapeake Energy (CHK) has seen better days, including back up at $60 where I sold two naked puts.  I charted it (below) today to see where I should price some naked calls to try to cut my losses some, but …

I updated my current portfolio page and pasted the same screen shot below to show what I’m holding now.  Unless I have a huge rally next week, July will end up being my second biggest down month.  …

After my Freeport McMoran (FCX) July 105 naked put expired last week and assigned me 100 shares I sold those 100 shares when FCX rallied.  The next day FCX dropped $8+.  I thought my limit was going to hit for the …

As I wrote earlier today I had a lot of option assignments from this past Friday’s option expiration.  Kraft (KFT) was one from earlier in the month as an early assignment.  I held it …

I’m still trying to get my bearings after missing the past two trading days and not even returning from vacation until Sunday evening.  Since I’m just now trying to get my hands around what happened I haven’t figured out all of …

I’ll be away for the next few days and will not be posting until after options expiration.  I don’t think I’ll be back in time to get an index chart up this weekend either.

I’m going to a family event for my …