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Let’s review our trades:  Rather than waiting for the news to sell, we walked away from our Nvidia (NVDA) September 20 call option (UVA + ID) on Monday, ahead of the tech company’s quarterly earnings release. A takeaway was a 38 percent gain in less than a week.  In the… Read More

Image via Wikipedia Volume 5, Number 19  May 7, 2008  It’s a quiet week for economic statistics, so stock traders have largely turned their attention back to earnings reports and the action in the commodity pits. As we’ve seen throughout this earnings season, the profit… Read More

We’ve taken on two new positions since the last Weekly Update, a long and a short. We purchased the Nvidia (NVDA) September 20 call option (UVA + ID) in anticipation of the battered tech stock rebounding in anticipation of continued good earnings. Set a limit to pay no more… Read More

Image by thinkpanama via Flickr Volume 5, Number 18  April 30, 2008  "The Fed writes the market letter," as the old adage goes. With the central bankers meeting at this very moment, there’s really little information we can impart right now. Most likely we’ll get… Read More

We cashed out of the Transocean July 150 call option (RIG + HJ) in just two days, fearing the stock could stall. We bagged a 44 percent profit in the process. And despite further gains in crude oil in the last couple of days, Transocean (RIG) has so far failed… Read More

Image via Wikipedia Volume 5, Number 17  April 23, 2008  Having set one record after another, oil yesterday flirted with $120 a barrel. And while a healthy correction is overdue from a technical standpoint, oil could possibly head as high as $125 in the short-term. Read More

Here’s the latest on our trades:  This morning we jumped out of The Manitowoc Company (MTW) June 35 call option (MTW + FG) after just one day with a profit of 17 percent. The stock could head higher still, but the gain was just too good to pass on.  On… Read More

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Volume 5, Number 16  April 16, 2008  First-quarter earning reports are starting to roll in. And while the early tally has been fairly decent, there have been a couple of headline-grabbing negative surprises. The biggest of these was… Read More

Earlier today we closed out the Agilent May 30 put option (A + QF), taking a 43 percent loss in the process. We also closed out the Exelon July 80 call option (EXC + GP), grabbing a 23 percent profit in two days.  Yesterday morning we added the American Eagle… Read More

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Volume 5, Number 14  April 2, 2008  Forget Major League Baseball’s opening day, the real story this week is the stock market’s quarterly opening. After closing on the worst quarterly performance since 2002, stocks staged an impressive rally… Read More