Tag: US Market

  • This Time is Different?

    In order to share current market conditions, I borrowed this title from an excellent book “This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen M Reinhart”. If you haven’t read it, I shall suggest that you get a copy and read it. Let’s get to the business. If by June…

  • Get Real or Go Home

    It took almost 5 years of Bull markets for Auzzie $ to reach its peak against US$ and just 5months to give it all back. The picture is not so much different for British Pound as well. The once mighty US$ is back with full force, against all convetional wisdom and doomsday forecasts, and almost all…

  • Fasten Your Seat Belts, Again

    What a day and certainly going to be registred in the history book as one of the bad days for markets around the world. Wel, this year there have been many. The US stock futures doesn’t look bright. As of this writing, Dow futures were down by nearly 200 points, S&P nearly 30points. Japanese Yen…

  • What’s next for US Markets and OPNewsletter (Jul +4.0%)

    US markets suffered big losses last week. The DOW was down 3.3%, S&P 500 was down nearly 2.5%, Nasdaq was down nearly 1.5 %. This was OPNewsletter’s first week since we opened our July’08 portfolio and including commissions OPN’s is up+4% and x-commission it is up +5.8% for the July expiration cycle. We opened 5…