What a week. US Markets almost collapsed, bounced and then again dumped in the last 6minutes of trading of last Friday. The news of the last week was and still is, Nikkei, which is at 25 year low. As of this writing, Nikkei closed, again, down by another 6.3%, talk about the fears, bears!!!
While losing [...]

What a tubulent week! For the week ending Oct 17, here is the market tally. Dow closed at +4.7%, S&P500 almost similar +4.7%, NDX: +3.3%, Nasdaq (COMPQ) +3.6% and Russell 2000 almost flat at +0.75%.
For OPNewsletter, it was rather an unusual month. We opened one mini-portfolio consisting of options in Russell 2000, that was officially closed for +9% [...]

Fed has cut the discount rate by 50 basis points to 1.75%, ECB also cut benchmark rates by 50 basis points from 4.25% to 3.75%; and the futures are up, triple digit (as of this writing). Here is a snapshot of what happened today in the Asian markets so far-

Japan’s Nikkei falls 9.4 pct in [...]