Tough Markets, the worst June for Dow since the great depression of early 30s. The Dow is down nearly 9.5%, S&P500 nearly 8%, RUT nearly 5.5% and Nasdaq nearly 7.5% for the month of June so far and we still have one more trading day left. Dow Jones industrial average is down nearly 20% since [...]

There are two major economic indicators due today. Durable good order at 8:30am US EST and of course the FOMC announcement at 2:15pm. Markets may not move as much in the morning but expect the big move around 2:15pm to 2:30pm. Implied volatility of the July options will rise before falling back after the announcement. [...]

US markets suffered big losses last week. The DOW was down 3.3%, S&P 500 was down nearly 2.5%, Nasdaq was down nearly 1.5 %. This was OPNewsletter’s first week since we opened our July’08 portfolio and including commissions OPN’s is up+4% and x-commission it is up +5.8% for the July expiration cycle. We opened 5 [...]