Archive for: January 2011

After buying puts and selling covered calls on my VXX shares a couple months ago I put the position out of my focus and worked on other bullish plays.  Once VXX dropped a little further I should’ve jumped back in with …

I got a renewed bullish outlook after hearing Jamie Dimon’s bullish comments last night on top of seeing the successful debt offerings from Greece and Italy (yesterday) and then from Germany and Portugal (today).  I haven’t even bothered to close any of my …

I charted the S&P 500 after the markets closed on Friday, January 7, 2011 after it finished for the week at 1,271.50.
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As I mentioned in my end of the year wrap up a couple of days ago I decided to increase the bond allocation in my accounts.  I debated if I should do this now or wait longer and see if yield rise some …

Keeping with my plan to load up the majority of my account with LEAPS (or at least longer dated options) I was half playing around with UWM puts well out of the money.  I still have my wife’s IRA with …

2010 was a big let down for me on the investing front.  The markets pulled out solid double digit gains and I fizzled with my timid start and fearful follow through that lasted into the fall.  I started the year …

For the third year in a row I’ve joined some other top financial bloggers in a contest for the top stock picks over a one year period.  In our first competition in 2009 I came in second to last, in …

In 2010′s contest with other bloggers for the four top stock picks I had a simple goal – I wanted to improve on my rank from 2009.  That was a fairly low bar to pass since I was second from the bottom …

On the last trading day of the year I charted the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJIA, $INDU, $DJI) after it closed at 11,577.51.
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