We are now in one of the most optimistic and bullish periods of stock market during the past 2 decades. If you talk to beginners, you will probably come to conclude as if nothing can wrong. Cheap money, central bank’s put option that supports continuous rally etc to name a few factors that wouldn’t let this market…
While on one hand, equity markets are moving pretty much sideways thus benefitting OP Income Newseletter, Futures and commodity options are offering unparralled opportunities too. Just look at recent moves in grains and metal markets. Gold is still recovering from the massive move it experienced during last few weeks. Crude oil is…
There were some requests from readers to follow-up on a previous post on Gold and some bigger picture comments on Crude. Pls see below for a quick analysis in broader terms that might help in generating some trade ideas. If you are looking for trade ideas, try our Income from…
For the OP Income Newsletter, Dec’2012 portfolios delivered +23.97% on maximum of 27% capital employed based upon OP Capital allocation principles in line with risk/reward. This excludes all the results from OPNExtra! Trades e.g. GOOG (+100%), AAPL (many trades), MCP and many more. If however, a benchmark is chosen with an assumption of 10%…
After two back to back 90% updays (a rare occurrence), Russell 2000 at all-time high, S&P up over 60 points in 2 days, it was time for a pause; a pause that may be attributed to latest FOMC minutes. Various members stressed the importance of a continuing assessment of labor…
Fiscal cliff is now history (regardless of the outcome); before either the new buzzword is popularized or the next crisis emerges in 8 weeks’ time. Till then, what’s next. This is going to be an interesting year to say the least. Though I have not yet set-up my goals for…
Wishing everyone a wonderful new year. May the new year bring greater prosperity, good health and more joy to you and your loved ones. In-spite of all the doom’s day predictions i.e. euro challenges, Mayan end-of-the-world, fiscal cliff and all the blah blah, we are finally cursing in 2013. The…
Apple (AAPL) reported earnings that missed consensus estimates. Amongst other tech heavyweights, Amazon (AMZN) missed estimates as well. This was the 3rd time AAPL missed earnings during the last 8 Quarters (including the latest). Besides missing estimates, AAPL also lowered guidance which was the 5th time during the last 8 Quarters (2nd in a row). Here…
We closed our latest EUR future options trade for +23.5% gains by holding it for 15days and now waiting for set-ups to emerge for new trade ideas. Following outlook is for this week only and we’ll review other assets during the week. As of now, we are fully in cash….
Overall OPNewsletter for Sep 2012 is up +13.5% (excluding P&L on OPNExtra!). RUT Broken Wing Butterfly was a loss, LULU was a huge winner and AAPL Iphone5 trade is up +9%. Sep monthly P&L, General Market outlook (pls don’t miss) have been updated as well. Some of you might have…