Archive for: September 2009

I keep coming back to NASDAQ OMX Group Inc (NASDAQ:NDAQ) when I see good opportunities on its chart. Long term I think NDAQ is going much higher, but since I don’t know when that day is going to get here, …

For the past few months I’ve written about my lack of buyer’s remorse, not because I wasn’t remorseful of what I bought, but because I was remorseful of what I didn’t buy.  (Still with me?)  For months I’ve stayed underinvested, …

I charted the NASDAQ 100 Index ($NDX) after the markets closed on September 25, 2009 when NDX was closed at 1,694.15.

The chart shows …

I must feel I’m aging or something. For the first time I added a bond ETF to my portfolio as a mainstay. I’ve always focused on stocks (and their derivatives) as my only asset class outside of cash. The more …

I made an adjustment to my trading model recently.  I used to let all of my positions remain in place until options expiration and take the assignments whenever they were in the money at expiration.  I changed that a few …

After babbling on about how I might play ProShares Ultra DJ-UBS Crude Oil ETF (NYSE Arca: UCO) after my September UCO naked puts finished in-the-money (ITM) on Friday, when I logged on to TD Ameritrade (AMTD) this …

I’m posting a longer term chart of the S&P 500 Index ($SPX.X) as of Friday, September 18, 2009 after the markets closed.  The S&P 500 finished the week at 1,068.30.  This chart uses monthly data which smoothes out some of the very short term ebbs and flows …

As I wrote about a couple of days ago, I had to make a decision on SSO and took the easy way out.  I just gave up on the bad trade.  I kept it simple versus trying to manage …

I’ve sold FWLT naked puts, owned shares and sold covered calls a few times over the past couple of years and I continue to watch it on a fairly regular basis.  FWLT had been bumping up against resistance recently on …