Archive for: March 2010

I charted the S&P 500 ($SPX) after the markets closed on Friday, March 12, 2010, when the SPX closed at 1,149.99 for the week.
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The stock market can make you laugh at yourself sometimes.  UCO is playing its roll as the comedian today.  In my post on Monday I mentioned that I was trying to work a calendar spread on UCO.  I …

Occasionally when the markets are slow, like they’ve been recently, I mess around with a penny stock trade to try to make a little extra cash.  The risks of complete loss are fairly high with these stocks compared to my normal …

My CSCO position started with a mistake.  While getting used to the platform after switching my account to IB I mistakenly sold calls instead of a put, as if I hadn’t made hundreds of trades for years and didn’t know …

I charted the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJIA) after the markets closed on Friday, March 3, 2010 when the Dow finished the week at 10,566.20.
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Yesterday afternoon I place a few limit orders late in the trading day for new naked puts on three different underlying stocks and ETFs - UWM, ITRI and JPM.  All of them were sitting at levels that I would have been …

I’m pretty happy with how February worked out for me, especially considering that I’m not fully invested still.   I finished February with a combined balance of $103,076.06 ($91,897.17 with IBKR and $11,178.89 with AMTD) which is up from my …