At OP Income newsletter, the out-performance vs. broader markets continues. For Aug 2013, based on the invested capital (60% of the portfolio), it delivered +20.5% returns. That’s > +12% on the overall portfolio capital. And we also warned about the sell-off before it started thus helping members position for the…
Trading Options at Expiration can bring big gains. How? Equity and index options expires on Fridays (weeklies) and third Fridays of each month (for monthlies). As options expiration approaches, time value component of the option price approaches to zero creating a multiple trading opportunities. Jeff Augen has actually written a complete…
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…
Aiming to generate twice the SPX returns in 2013. OPNewsletter is very much on track to deliver my personal aim i.e. 2x the SPX returns by the end of 2013. Jan 2013 was a solid +15.5%, Feb was +2.3% and March was +15.3% on max capital utilization of 36.3% thus…
Except for a cautious mover from RUT on Friday, all other conditions as outlined here remains in tact. Markets have been going up and there hasn’t been a correction during the past 7 weeks. VIX is trading below the crisis levels (i.e. lowest tertile of the past decade). For the OP Income…
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%…
During the past few weeks, markets have pulled back sharply resulting into two 90% down days during past 2 weeks (first since Jun’12). The story stock continues to be AAPL which has lost almost $180 billions in market cap since Sep’12 high. For the OP Income Newsletter, Nov’2012 portfolios delivered +10.4%…
Confusion, hopes, wishes and churn is all that’s continuing in the markets. As recently observed, there were two >88% downdays during the past 6 trading sessions (first since Jun’12). The sell signal is continuing and the blue chips’ earnings are not encouraging. For all the hopes-n-dreams, there is Bernanke Put…
After Uncle Ben’s QEternity blitz announcement last week, markets paused this week. In spite of all the negativity in the broader market, macro and micro economic concerns, Fed cleared way for markets in Sept. Now October, traditionally considered a bad month for markets, needs to show good performance and all shall be…
OP Income Newsletter Sept portfolios are track to deliver a record month with +19.2% gains (as of Aug 31 close) excluding gains from OPNExtra! which is a FREE feature for OPN members that includes directional as well as earning trades. Some of the members asked me what will the results…