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  • How to Play Next “Black Swan” Bear Leg

    Which side are you at? Bull or Bear? Based on the current market sentiments, general bullish bias, feeling of missing last up leg and given that every indicator is screaming buy buy buy, chances are that you are on the Bull’s side. If so, there is not much point reading this post any further. There…

  • AAPL +35.6%; MCO +3.5%

    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…

  • OPNewsletter Jun’09 is up 7.34% (Open)

    A week in which Dow moved between +2.5% to -1.75%, S&P500 from +3.25% to -1.5% and RUT from +4.75% to -1.50%, and all closing in negative territory, OPNewsletter gained +2% that too after increasing capital investment by 36% over last week. Overall OPN is up +7.35% (x- brokerage commissions) and +5.3% (including commissions). This excludes…

  • OPNewsletter : May’09 (+11.2%), Jun’09 (Opening Shortly)

    It feels great when a single covered call option spread (done only @ 7.3% of 10K portfolio) can deliver OPNewsletter monthly subscription fee, cover commissions and still deliver profits, without making adjustments throughout the holding period. And what if the newsletter doesn’t get a single cent if doesn’t deliver profits? Welcome to OPNewsletter (A “No…

  • CSX Corporation (CSX) Earnings Play

    Railroad operator CSX Corp. (CSX) is scheduled to issue first-quarter earnings after market close today, with analysts forecasting earnings of $0.51 per share on revenues of $2.26 billion for the quarter. I am not so positive about the results. I think CSX might miss earnings’ estimates, but, as I always say earnings are 50:50, pls…

  • OPNewsletter (Jun’08) : Closed +11.1%

    An excellent month for OPNewsletter with double digit gains. OPNewsletter’s June 2008 was closed for +11.1%. This is nearly double of my own target of 5-7% per month. These returns excludes the bonus speculative trades on JOYG (+40%), RIG (Multiple Profit Points), GLD and CME (Multiple Profit Points-Shared for free with OP Readers), With this…

  • OP Newsletter (Jun’08): +5% for Week, +11.5% for Month

    What a week!! Absolutely fascinating for OPN as well for my personal account. We are up nearly +5% vs last week and to +11.54% for the month. This is nearly double of my own target of 5-7% per month. Before you proceed reading further, pls note- OPN uses its Member’s fills for tracking (Not the…

  • CME closed, Profit + 25.77%

    I mentioned about the CME trade before market open. I mentioned my bullish bias for short-term, well all happened within the day so far, and I won’t mind closing the trade for +25.7% in such a short period. CME opened at $384, dipped to $381 before marching to $393. I had opened a debit call…

  • Chicago Mercantile, A Short-Term Bullish Case

    Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is hammered and hammered pretty badly. It took two years of bull run to reach the highest price ~$712 and only 5 months to come back to square one i.e. $375. Here I am presenting a short term bullish scenario. Before I dive into charting, let me share my thoughts about…