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  • A Credit Spread on Edwards LifeSciences (EW)

    Edwards Lifesciences Corp (EW) announced stock split which is Payable n May 27, 2010 (x date May 28, 2010). I earlier shared (for free) a credit spread on Silgan Holdings (SLGN) that we closed for +39.% gains. EW is another stock that fits my criteria for playing stock split. For those who don’t know about…

  • A Record Month OPN (Jun’09) up +14.7%

    June 2009 was a record month (2009) for OPNewsletter! Overall June’09 OPN is closed up +14.7% (x- brokerage commissions) and +12.1% (including commissions). We invested almost 60% of 10K assumed capital across various sectors and diversified strategies. All the portfolios were closed positively. Overall an excellent performance that was almost double the OPNewsletter objective of…

  • OPNewsletter – May’09 (+9.48%), Jun’09 (Open)

    OPNewsletter closed May’09 for +9.48% x-commissions and +6.76% inclusive of commissions. As I stated earlier, after many months of waiting, we crossed our 60% portfolio investment target. It’s always an advantage if the capital was preserved. Yes we did have a few months of low returns, but that preserved capital is an out performance (vs…

  • 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…