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  • OPNewsletter Returns +6.2% in Sept’08

    In what could be summarized as tumultuous month for the US markets, full of volatility and extreme intradays moves and strong reversals, OPNewsletter Sept portfolios returned +6.2% including commissions. This beats my revised target of 5% including comissions (vs earlier 5-7% x-comissions). This surely wasn’t an easy month for an income trader but a portfolio approach and diversification helped me achieve…

  • Lehman Slumps, Market Follows

    According to marketwatch, LEH seems unable to raise capital and that’s what is taking it down. At OPNewsletter I was selling this rally. Here is what I wrote to OPN members yesterday- Markets are going to the sky, moon or whichever planet you can think of. I shall share with you my version…before that…I may…

  • Ospraie to shut flagship commodity hedge fund

    Ospraie, It took 8 years to reach where it was, one of the largest commodities fund. It took nearly (or less than) 8weeks for it to close! According to a news published on Reuters, Ospraie Management LP is shutting its flagship commodity hedge fund after losing 27% in August and almost 40% this year, according…

  • Fantastic Four Does it Again

    Mosaic (MOS), CF Industries (CF), Monsanto (MON) and Potash (POT) are my fantastic four of the agriculture and farming sectors. I mentioned those here and then again asked a question about a month ago, when the four were travelling earth from the sky. Whoever has the medicine to manage trading constipation did pretty damn good.…