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AAPL +35.6%; MCO +3.5%

by OptionPundit on June 13, 2009

Basic members were alerted for 2 free trade ideas. One is closed for nice gains while other trade has been successfully rolled to next month. Starting with Moody’s (MCO) trade idea. The basic premise for that trade was shorting of Moody’s by hedge fund manager David Einhorn, who correctly questioned the health of Lehman Brothers [...]

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A Bearish Apple (AAPL) Trade

by OptionPundit on June 8, 2009

The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (AWDC) is starting today and AAPL stock has been on an upward movement for past few weeks. At OptionPundit, we played this event around this time last year and made good gains. While the same approach (Bearish bias) has pretty good chance of making money, context however matters. This time [...]

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A New World? or Is it the Same Old Thing?

by OptionPundit on April 23, 2009

As of this writing, U.S. stock-index futures and Asian shares rose after Apple Inc (AAPL). and EBay (EBAY) Inc. reported profits that beat analysts’ estimates, fueling expectations the slowdown in consumer spending may be easing but let’s wait for UPS and others to tell us more. Bloomberg tells – Short sellers are increasing bets against [...]

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Thrilling Expiration Friday

by OptionPundit on March 20, 2009

Too much to handle for the week which slowed down the postings this week. What a “Rambo Fed” action that was (I was looking for a picture replacing Bernanke with Stallone but gave up after a few searches). But guess what, was this really surprising, I don’t think so. Uncle Ben has already made this [...]

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Panic Before Everyone Else Does

by OptionPundit on February 20, 2009

I have tried my best to warn OP readers of the upcoming storm, over and over again starting from November 2007. Fun fact, this is what I wrote then- But hey, if you do get a bearish market, then don’t forget to mention that you were told first hand here at OptionPundit. We are close [...]

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A Terrible, and A Fantastic Week

by OptionPundit on October 5, 2008

It was a terrible week for U.S. stocks and equally for almost every major stock markets worldwide. The Dow fell 157.47 points, or 1.5%, on Friday to close at 10,325.38, racking up a 7.3% drop for the week. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 29.33 points, or 1.5%, on Friday to close at 1,947.39 and lost 10.8% for [...]

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