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  • The Week Ahead

    RIMM free trade that was shared here delivered a +19%, an excellent trade for two days holding period. Hope you have been in touch with the blog posts either via RSS or via basic blog membership. The coming week will see a flurry of economic data, the biggest one being FOMC announcement on Wednesday 2:15pm…

  • RIMM- A Speculative Play

    RIMM is going to announce earnings Thursday after market close. It will be followed by Options Expiration on Friday. The IVs will drop significantly post earning announcements. What to expect from earnings; Here is from briefing.com- RIMM Research In Motion: Expect strong Q1, with gross margin bounce and follow-on catalysts for Q2 outlook – Caris…

  • Outperformance Continues at OPNewsletter

    When compared with broader markets, Feb was an excellent month for OPNewsletter coupled with a few good learnings (kinda reinforcement, been there done that, but forget that). Overall, OPNewsletter for Feb closed up +5.6% x-commissions and +2.6% including commissions. Capital preservtion and thus allocation was higher priority vs missing an opportunity. These results doesn’t include…

  • Outperformance : OPNewsletter Feb’09 +5.85%(Open)

    An excellent month for OPNewsletter so far. Overall, OPNewsletter is up +8.87% x-commissions and +5.85% including commissions. We didn’t have to make any major adjustments to our portfolios except one which rolled partially to next month. We closed one portfolio for +17.17% gains and except any major disastrous events on Tuesday market open, remainder portfolios…

  • Pre-Market Losers

    A fantastic day (of course assuming that one embraces volatilities well) for some bearish play. Bearish plays on a bearish day can yield significant returns but one needs to be very careful and should clearly defined entry and exit points well in advance. Before I share the list, pls note that we may play some speculative trades for…

  • Equity Option Expiration and Pin Opportunities

    Today is a special day, a day that occurs only once a month offering good opportunities for intra day trading. Today is Aug’08 option expiration Friday. Before I proceed to talk about opportunities, pls note that the threshold for automatic exercise of stock-settled in-the-money options is $.01. Long equity options in the money by $.01…

  • Fasten Your Seatbelts, Again

    Dow dropped below its 200wk moving average, one of the indicator that I look, at times, for determining long term trends to develop a macro picture. This is not a good sign and it has never dipped below that since 2004. We’ll see how S&P500, Nasdaq and other major indices do. We still nearly 4…