Archive for: April 2009

I was on a good role with picking the direction of Monsanto (MON) for the past few months, but seem to have lost my touch lately a little.  With that in mind I decided to end my long run with MON …

The NASDAQ OMX Group (NDAQ) has been more than a little bit volatile over the past few months, but at the same time has become somewhat predictable (I hope).  It’s been trading consistently in a trading channel for a while now …

Ever since mortgage rates started falling I’ve been waiting for the best time to refinance our home mortgage.  A few months ago I received a promotional letter from the same mortgage broker I’ve used for our past two mortgage loan closings – …

After charting the DJIA this weekend and AAPL this morning I decided to make a bearish trade on AAPL.  I won’t claim this is much more than a gamble since the April …

I charted daily prices for the Dow Jones ($DJI) for the past six months ending Thursday, April 9, 2009.  Outside of any other technical indicator the big scary monkey on this market’s back is the horizontal line that comes across the entire past six …

I used to run this drill on my portfolio every month to make sure I was staying fairly diversified, but have fallen away from it for a while as I wasn’t concentrating on opening as many new positions as much as managing …

I’ve been watching the Materials Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLB) for a while after I bought and sold put options on it last year and in January of this year.  I kept thinking it would fall more and hasn’t.  So I kept …

Tidewater Inc (TDW) dipped with the most of stocks this morning and I decided to reduce my cost per share again.  While TDW was selling at $39.51 today I sold 2 TDW April 40 covered calls (TDWDH) at $1.40 and …

The last time I charted the S&P 500 ($SPX.X) I was confident enough that it was going up that I even said it was a buy in the title.  Today I’m not as …