Category: Reading

I pulled this from “In Play” on Yahoo! Finance today. They referenced this press release from overstock.com’s Web site.  (I watch In Play throughout the day to get the short story on what’s moving the markets.)
9:08AM Overstock.com issues press release related to Reg. SHO (OSTK) 20.15 : Co announces that “yesterday marked the 800th trading day that the co has appeared on the Regulation SHO threshold list”. The CEO said “While this may seem paradoxical, the facts can …

I saw this article on money.cnn and thought it was worth sharing.  Basically it highlights the same thing that many of us have read for years – the roaring 80s and 90s won’t be seen again.  I take from this yet another reason to follow the naked put selling trading model. 

If the markets stay at a 8-9% annual clip, selling naked puts is the way to go.  Once you get closer to the …

I haven’t made it through this week’s Barron’s yet and don’t see it happening.  I read more than half of it, but couldn’t get into it with most of the stocks they highlighted.  I was surprised to see Michael Santoli moving away from being a solid bear and even hinting towards a bullish lean soon.  I don’t think I’ve read his bullish side in months.  Maybe I misread it…

I did find a few stocks worth mentioning though.  Before listing them, I …

For those who don’t read Barron’s (you should) the format is pretty basic.  It generally comes in two sections unless there’s a special.  Each section starts with one or two long articles summarizing the past week’s market activity.  Following the summaries are more in depth articles on individual stock picks or pans and some follow-ups.

This week all three summaries painted a fairly bearish picture.  (Admittedly, Kopin Tan who is often the bullish one of the bunch didn’t write this week.)  …

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 …