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  • How To Trade Gold Now?

    After failing to breach a critical level of 1350, Gold has been falling steadily since 14th July and has fallen to its current level at 1284.80. Since Gold has fallen so much, is it time to go short? Let’s analyse the daily chart. Firstly, in the medium term (3 to 6 month period), gold is…

  • Trading Options at Expiration for Big Gains

    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 book on trading options at…

  • Don’t Confuse Luck with Reality

    Sandy superstorm is one of the biggest natural disasters to have struck east coast during recent times. My Prayers and Best Wishes for all the people in the Sandy’s Path. I wish all a safe stay and speedy recovery of the places affected by this storm. As superstorm Sandy slams east coast, it’s leaving floods,…

  • Protect Your Portfolio Before AAPL Falls Further

    Apple (AAPL) closed below 50dma level again. Apple has pulled back almost $53 from the high since latest earning announcement. When a company announces earnings that almost doubled smashing even the most bullish expectations and the stock was already selling well below the average P/E ratio of the market, how can it continue to fall…

  • Don’t Trade Apple Earnings Without Reading This First

    Apple Inc. (AAPL), the biggest publicly listed company on the planet is about to announce earnings on Apr 24th, after markets are closed. It is estimated that nearly 200+ Hedge funds have AAPL shares in their portfolio. And it is one of the most commonly talked about stock on almost every main stream financial media,…

  • Another Way to Play Priceline (PCLN) Earnings

    Priceline (PCLN) is set to report it’s earning after market close today. According to briefing.com, consensus is $9.29 for EPA while revenue consensus is $1.416 billion. During the past 8 quarters PCLN has consistent outperformed the expectations, usually by a wide margin. Based on current Implied Volatility, it is expected to move roughly $36-$38 in…

  • OptionPundit Interview: Author and Investor Jeff Augen

    Jeff Augen, currently a private investor and writer, has spent more than a decade building a unique intellectual property portfolio of algorithms and software for technical analysis of derivatives prices. His work includes more than one million lines of computer code reflecting powerful new strategies for trading equity, index, and futures options.  He is author…

  • How to Trade Fear

    So you have been watching this “interesting” stock market. One day down, next day up and in the end you don’t seem to find any “wealth effect” in your stock portfolio. And then there is this marvelous VIX, Uncle Ben’s bullish notes about subdued inflation, bullish economic data and you think everything seems to be…

  • Time Is Now, Not Later

    It was start of winters in Kobe, Japan. While sipping coffee in a “Gaijin” restaurant in Sanomiya , I was thinking “this is irrational”. How could money making be so easy for everyone that I talk to me but for myself? Even the coffee-shop owner was giving me tip which is the next .com I…

  • Where are Markets Heading?

    No one has an answer to this question. In August, the market fell nearly 5%, as rising fears of a double dip and of a repeat of 1930s-style deflation, spooked investors and sparked heavy selling. But instead of a continued negativity in September — historically the worst month for stocks — it turned out to…