We bagged a quick 39 percent, one-day gain on the Shaw Group April 22.50 call option (SGR + DX) last Friday when the company reported impressive quarterly results and offered solid guidance for the current quarter. Our other new position, the outright purchase of Western Digital (WDC) hasn’t done… Read More
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Image by jpellgen via FlickrThere has been quite a dichotomy in the market in recent weeks. Blue chip shares have been under pressure, while small cap shares have been acting quite well. Last week, for instance, while the S&P 500 declined by more than 4… Read More
The SPDR Gold Shares Trust March 86 call option (GLD + CH) we rolled into last week is a buy for new clients up to $6.50. The Diamond Offshore March 65 call option (DO +CM) has rallied strongly in recent days, wiping out much of our earlier loss in… Read More
Image via WikipediaLast week’s stock market action was quite impressive. Blue chips, as measured by the S&P 500, gained 6.8 percent for the week, while the more economically sensitive small caps were up by a greater amount—8.8 percent on the unweighted average of all… Read More
With short-term interest rates near zero, government debt soaring and the dollar under pressure, gold is looking better and better to many investors. We therefore rolled our SPDR Gold Shares Trust January 79 call option (GVD + AA) into the longer-dated SPDR Gold Shares Trust March 86 call option (GLD… Read More
Image via WikipediaThere’s now $8.9 trillion sitting on the sidelines in cash and money markets. As a percentage the stock market’s capitalization that matches the level achieved at the bottom of the market in 1990, although it falls short from where we stood at… Read More
Today, we continued with this strategy by recommending a buy-write on Mosaic, a major fertilizer producer trading at rock-bottom valuations, whose stock is down more than 60 percent year-to-date. For subscribers who opted to write a covered call in October, that call (the Mosaic December 55 call options) has expired… Read More
Image via WikipediaWe are set to end a bad market year on a low note. The U.S. economy is shrinking, the markets are down, and adding insult to injury, the Madoff scandal is getting louder further scaring market participants. Good riddance to 2008. The… Read More
Last Wednesday we sold our Barrick Gold April 25 call option (ABX + DE) for an 86 percent gain five weeks. Our decision to close out the trade was with hindsight a bit premature, but it was prompted by the fact that the call was so far in the money… Read More
Image via Wikipedia Stocks hit a roadblock yesterday as investors learned more of the Bernard Madoff scandal, reportedly the largest financial fraud in history. The size of the bilking still hasn’t been definitively determined, but the hedge fund is believed to have racked up more… Read More