Category: Media

I spent a lot of time reading this weekend and in a rare moment of focused attention, I finished reading all of Barron’s before the weekend was over.  I also read an aging Smart Money magazine I hadn’t finished yet.  The whole time I read I kept a pen and piece of paper next to me and wrote down every stock ticker with a bullish mention in both sources. 

I plan to use this throughout the week to research further and use a limit orders for naked …

This week’s Barron’s offered insight on how they find a lot of their stock picks.  You don’t have to be a subscriber to see the contents of the page which I recommend you visit.  Just because a stock is listed here doesn’t guarantee it’ll go up, but at least they’ve done a lot of the leg work for you in narrowing down which stocks to further research.   

As I use the print edition for new investment …

Marketwatch has a really good article today on charting and the author’s thoughts on whether or not this is a dead cat bounce we’re in now.  He also lists a few stock picks worth checking out.

It appears I might have missed my chance on CAT that I mentioned yesterday as it’s up good again today.  I put a limit order for $2.00 to sell one Sept 75 naked put.  It could dip down and hit at any …

I read a good article on MSN Money today that seemed to echo what I said last week in my post about risk.  Apparently Jim Juback reads my blog and must be getting ideas from me (of course I’m kidding, probably).  Here’s a quote from his article:
“My argument breaks down into two main parts. First, the same macro trends that are almost uniformly negative for …

For those who don’t subscribe to Barron’s (you should), this week included an update from the roundtable they did at the beginnning of the year.  It started like this:
“DOW 14,000, OR BUST.

Suddenly either alternative seems possible for stocks, as the outlook for interest rates turns murky. The Dow industrials and the Standard & Poor’s 500 could race to new highs as corporate profits keep climbing — or fall amid signs that the greatest party ever is ending for bonds.”
It was …

Smart Money magazine has an ariticle in the July edition on mutual funds that use covered calls.  Their picks are FFA, BDJ and NFJ.  I’m not going to go into much more depth than just to mention it for any who would like an approach that requires less time invested than doing it yourself.  I still prefer to pick my own stocks and avoid mutual fund fees and paying capital gains taxes from gains earned while I didn’t own the …

In the May 28th issue of Barron’s, Tiernan Ray wrote an interesting article entitled “Summer Meltdown Unlikely for Tech”.  I’ll list some of the highlights and quickly move to this picks I thought were worth a closer look. 

All investors know the cliche, sell in May and go away.  Tech stocks don’t typically do well in the summer, but Ray writes “it’s unlikely to experience a dramatic selloff akin to last summer’s rout…  Before any correction happens, bearish investors will likely …

After two big up and down days to end the week I was anxious to read Barron’s views.  I always read the Market Week section first for some reason. Kopin Tan had me turning into a big bull to start my Saturday off right.  He said:
“…corporate profits were up 8.5% in the first quarter, well above the 3.6% pace Wall Street analysts had forecast.  Commodity prices kept climbing.  Consumers sending grew about 4% the past two quarter, and weekly unemployment …

Kopin Tan wrote an interesting article in this weekend’s Barron’s starting on page M2.  A few of the key points he hit are:
- “The Dow has climbed in 19 of the last 21 sessions – one of the most enduring streaks since 1929.”  My first thought was that has to mean that we are due for a hard correction soon.  Then he continued…
- “Institutional market confidence stands a the highest level since 1990.” and…
- “So far, companies’ first quarter profits …