Archive for: March 2013
March 31, 2013
I charted the daily prices for the past three months on the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJIA, $INDU, $DJI, the Dow) after the index closed for the week at 14,578.54 on Thursday, March 28, 2013.
The green area shows the current trading …
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March 24, 2013
This Russell 2000 ($RUT) chart shows the past 6 months of daily prices after the index finished the week at 946.27 on Friday, March 22, 2013….
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March 22, 2013
So much for patience. My plan to wait on selling covered calls on UCO didn’t last more than a few trading hours. At least I’m glad I waited overnight, because UCO moved more than 1.7% higher this morning from yesterday’s …
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March 21, 2013
I placed a limit order (Good-Til-Cancelled) two weeks ago that finally started to hit today. The bid/ask for my six UCO April $35 calls was $0.05/0.15 at the time, with the last trade at $0.05. I figured I could rewrite …
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March 17, 2013
I charted the daily prices for the past six months on the Dow Jones Industrial Average ($DJIA, $INDU, $DJI, the Dow) after the index closed at 14,514.11 on Friday, March 15, 2013.
The second indicator that is the distance the Dow Jones …
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March 15, 2013
This has to be one of the most boring quarterly options expiration days that I can remember. The market didn’t know what to do with itself after such a long rally and didn’t do much. The morning trade looked like …
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March 14, 2013
I’m a few days early for spring-cleaning, but my trades today kind of felt that way. I had a few positions that just needed to be dumped. They weren’t doing much for me and I saw no reason to keep …
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March 9, 2013
I charted the monthly prices for the past six months on the S&P 500 index ($SPX) after the index closed at 1,551.18 on Friday, March 8, 2013….
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March 6, 2013
I’ve been eyeing puts on AAPL again for the past few days. If I had stuck with my strategy from last year and kept repeating it, I would have made up for my losses. Instead, I backed off and waited …
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