Weekly Wrap for 5/25/09
1. Commentary 2. What the VIX is Telling Us 3. IPO’s Showing Signs of Life 4. Earnings 5. Current Trades […]
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New OptionsMentoring.com Changes Coming Soon
We’ve got some exciting news to tell you about and some of the changes we are making here at OptionsMentoring.com.
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Looking at India
11:00pm (EST) I’ve gotten quite a few emails asking about India’s stock market (Bombay Stock Exchange) after it zoomed 17%
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Weekly Wrap for 5/17/09
1. Commentary 2. Power Stock Trading Strategies 3. Covered Calls 4. Earnings 5. Current Trades 6. Monday Morning Playbook 7.
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Wells Fargo Update
11:45am (EST) After three days of losses, the Nadaq is joining the Dow and is trading higher today. The Dow
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Bulls Find No Room to Run/ Ford Put Play
1:00pm (EST) It’s been a tough week if you were bullish on the market trading higher. As we head into
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7th Heaven?
12:45(pm) EST Dow 8,131. That is the number bulls are looking for. After an up and down week, the Dow
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Yahoo Beats Street, Profits Tank
8:40am (EST) I’ve been talking about the Tech rally for over a month now which has helped the Nasdaq post
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Market Recovers, Amazon.com Pushes $80
12:05pm (EST) The Dow has made a nice rebound from yesterday’s shellacking and is currently up 72 points to 7,914.
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Weekly Wrap for 4/19/09
1. Commentary 2. Dendreon’s Next Move 3. Olin – Under the Radar 4. Earnings 5. Current Trades 6. Monday Morning
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JPMorgan Up Pre-Market/ Google On Deck
9:20 am (EST) This has been “cheap out-of-the-money option and earning expiration trade week” and it only happens four times
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News Flash: Dendreon News Coming Tuesday/ Goldman Announces
What a busy day. What a busy weekend. I spent most of the weekend doing the Weekly Wrap as there
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Dendreon Holding Steady/ Close April Calls
8:45am (EST) Dendreon (DNDN, $6.37, down $0.21) has held above $6 all week after hitting a high of $7.35 on
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Wednesday WakeUp Call
9:00 am (EST) As we head towards the opening bell, the market is trying to open on a higher note
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Tuesday's Tidbits
9:00 am (EST) I had a busy day on Monday with everything going on but I wanted to update some
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Weekly Wrap for 4/5/09
1. Commentary 2. Research In Motion Highlights 3. Dendreon – Between the Lines 4. Earnings 5. Current Trades 6. Monday
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Friday Morning Notes
We got the curve ball on Monday, today we got the wildcard. The market is headed for a lower open
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Tuesday's Tidbits – Amazon.com
Amazon.com (AMZN, $73.10, up $1.66) is notoriously tight lipped about sales when it comes to Wall Street inquiries and at
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Bears Rocking Wall Street
Don’t shoot the messenger but we knew it was going to be ugly and after an hour and half into
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Futures Pointing Towards Lower Open
The Dow futures are down 174 points which means we are headed towards a sharply lower open. News that General
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Weekly Market Wrap for 3/29/09
1. Commentary 2. Research In Motion Earnings Preview 3. Further Gains For First Solar? 4. Earnings 5. Current Trades 6.
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Why I Love Trading Options
It’s been an exciting week and we have been involved in a bunch of good trades lately. The market has
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Weekly Wrap for 3/22/09
1. Commentary 2. Take-Two Revisited 3. Is Dendreon Headed for Double Digits? 4. Earnings 5. Current Trades 6. Monday Morning
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Bernanke Speaking
Miday update…Ben Bernanke is speaking at noon today and the Dow is currently up 11 points to 7,412. It has
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Market Resumes Winning Ways
After a slow start, the Dow go it in gear and staged another nice rally today. Once again it was
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Drive for Five Ends Short
After a strong start, the market fizzled and ended the day with the short end of the stick. The Dow
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Weekly Wrap for 3/8/09
1. Commentary 2. Bounce or No Bounce? 3. Apollo Group Heads Lower 4. Earnings 5. Current Trades 6. Monday Morning
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Market at 12-Year Lows, What Next?
The Dow fell over 4% Monday and you could tell by the opening bell that we were headed much lower.
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Dow Looks Poised to Fall Below 7,000
Futures are trading substantially lower this morning following more bad news out of the financial sector. The Dow futures are
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Weekly Wrap for 3/1/09
1. Commentary 2. “Covering” General Electric 3. Earnings 4. Closed Trades 5. Current Trades 6. Monday Morning Playbook 7. Closing
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Weekly Wrap for 2/22/09
1. Commentary 2. Gold and Platinum 3. Trading Bank of America 4. 2008/ 2009 Portfolios 5. Current Trades 6. Earnings
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Blog 500!
Well folks, its been nearly a year since we started the blog and today’s entry is my 500th. I guess
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Market Struggling to Stay Positive
The Dow started the morning off in positive territory and has been up and down ever since after waiting to
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Night Owls Calling
Just checking in on the futures…I must be sleepwalking. At 1AM right coast time, the Dow futures are up 54,
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Dow Testing November Lows
It was a nasty day for the market as the Dow tanked nearly 300 points to close at 7,552. The
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Weekly Wrap for 2/16/09
1. Commentary 2. Oil and Gold 3. Options Education 4. Credit Spreads 5. Current Trades 6. Earnings 7. Closing Thoughts
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Nasdaq Turns Positive
It has been a tough morning for the market as the three major indexes are mixed. Wall Street is still
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Dow Plunges on Uncertainty
The market hates uncertainty and Tuesday all Wall Street could do was watch with despair as stocks were sent plunging.
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Weekly Wrap for 2/8/09
1. Commentary 2. Straddle’s Part 2 (Amazon Keeps on Rolling) 3. Financial Sector (open positions) 4. Akamai Technologies 5. Current
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Wednesday Morning Update
Here’s a look at what we got going on this morning… The market is in positive territory as BMad is
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Weekly Wrap for 2/1/09
1. Commentary 2. Month-end Review 3. Opening and Managing a Trading Account 4. Using Option Straddles 5. Current Trades 6.
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Weekly Wrap 1/25/09
1. Commentary 2. Financials 3. Techs 4. Biotechs 5. Earnings 6. Closing Thoughts ************************************************** 1. Commentary The market continued its
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Market Looking For Answers
The market is trading lower this morning and the Vegas over/under is 8000 for the Dow. I got 50 cents
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Market Reverses Course
The market started off in positive territory as the Dow traded to a high of 8100 but just turned negative
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Weekly Wrap For 1/18/09
1. Commentary 2. HSBC Holdings 3. Genentech 4. Intel 5. Earnings 6. Closing Thoughts ************************************************** 1. Commentary The market continued
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Market Tumbles – More Trouble Ahead For Citigroup?
The Dow had its worst day in 2009 on Wednesday and after what looked like a promising start to the
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Futures Pointing Towards Lower Open
A lousy U.S. retail sales report before the opening bell this morning is weighing on the futures and it appears
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Weekly Wrap for 1/11/09
That was ugly. The bulls did not have a good week as the bears got the best of them as
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2008 – A Year Hit By A Truck
Index 1. Commentary 2. Financial Sector Takes a Beating 3. Options Versus Stocks 4. Current Trade Updates 5. Alcoa and
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Dow Breaks Losing Streak
The market managed to do a little something on Wednesday as Wall Street enjoyed the holiday and looks forward to
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Market Continues Slow Ride Lower
The market endured its fifth straight losing session on Tuesday after a couple of gloomy economic reports set the tone
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Market Looking to Open Lower
The futures are down, pointing towards a lower open this morning. The Dow futures are off by 14, to 8,525,
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Market Retreats, Gold Stops Hit
The market started Wednesday off in the red and managed to turn things around in the afternoon before giving up
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Market Rallies After Fed Cut
Looks like Wall Street got an early Christmas present after yesterday’s surprise Fed announcement concerning interest rates. Most experts had
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Triple Witching
This Friday is “Triple Witching” and I wanted to explain what this means and what impact it could have on
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Weekly Wrap 12/14/08
Believe it or not, the market managed to hold its own for the week despite a continuing string of bad
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Market All Smiles
The market powered higher on Monday following news that President-elect Obama will increase infrastructure spending to lift the economy once
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Weekly Wrap 12/07/08
The market returned to its “normal” ways after a see-saw week in which the Dow had three up days and
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Unemployment Report Weighs On Market
We knew it was going to be nasty and the release of this morning’s unemployment report is taking the Dow
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What To Watch For Friday
Wall Street would probably feel safer hanging out with Plaxico Burress at a night club than bet money on Friday’s
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Market Down 400
Despite what was initially thought as a “successful” start to the holiday season, the Dow is down over 400 points
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Black Friday Update
The market is closing at 1PM today and we’ve got about a half hour to go. Here’s what we’re watching:
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What The Fed Is Going On?
$8,500,000,000,000.00 That’s the number…$8.5 trillion. That’s how much the our government is preparing to provide on behalf of you and
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Market Opens Higher
The market is extending its gains this morning after the government announced it is willing to provide up to $800
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Market Rallies, Gambling on Citigroup
The market is so amazing. There are so many moving parts and subplots happening at the same time that is
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Bears Dominating Market
What a long strange trip it has been. Well, we are Grateful and the market has been left for Dead.
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Market Closes Below 8,000
The Dow fell 425 points yesterday to close below 8,000 for the first time since 2003 as economic news and
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Option Expiration Week Could Bring Added Volatility
The market looks to have an uphill battle this week as it tries to break a two-week losing streak. After
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Before the Bell
Futures are trading lower this morning, which could lead to a potentially negative start this morning. The market rallied big-time
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Morning Tidbits
The futures are pointing towards a lower openening this morning as the market is struggling with a number of issues.
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China Ditto's U.S. Bailout Package
The futures are up big-time this morning before the opening bell as Wall Street seems to loving the fact that
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Opening Bell Outlook
Welcome to a new day and a new America. Senator Barack Obama made history by winning the U.S. presidential election
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Market Ends Flat Ahead of Election
The market had its least volatile session in well over a month as Wall Street ignored some weak economic news
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Opening Bell Update
The market is not out of the woods yet. U.S. elections will take center stage on Tuesday and many experts
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Market Holds Steady Ahead Of Rate Cut Decision
The market has been in and out of positive territory following yesterday’s huge rally, as the bulls and bears position
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Market Rises On Bargain Hunting
The market staged a furious rally on top of the one it had going in the final hour of trading
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The Camel's Back is Hurting
The straw that might break the camel’s back could be falling today as the market is struggling halfway through the
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Market Stumbles Once Again
After taking one big step forward, the market took two steps back on Wednesday as the Dow fell 733 points,
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Market Explodes for 900 Points
The relief rally was on today as the Dow zoomed 936 points as bulls rushed in to buy stocks that
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It's Time to See the Forest Through the Trees
Words can’t describe the excitement we’ve seen in the market over the past few weeks and Friday was a classic
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Mid-Day Outlook, IBM's Earnings
The market looked poised to break its six-day losing streak on the heels of a fantastic earnings report from International
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Quick Hits
Down 200 points. Up 125. That is what we are dealing with today for the Dow Jones…and that’s just the
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Look Out Below!
The hits just keep coming for the market. Another day, another drop for the Dow. Wow. Tuesday’s 508 point debacle
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Dow Takes A Licking, Barely Keeps Ticking
Wall Street was jolted again on Monday as the Dow was on the verge of its biggest loss ever. At
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Bailout Signed, Market Retreats
It’s official. After a week of haggling, the House finally approved the $700 billion government bailout of the financial industry
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Market Notes – Potash Going Up In Smoke
From $185 to $98 in 10 days. That’s what has or is happening to Potash (POT, $97.91, down $30.13) today.
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Market Set To Open Lower
Here we go again. The futures are down sharply this morning and it’s looking like the Dow is going to
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Market Notes
Historic times indeed. Tuesday’s 485 point climb for the Dow was the third largest ever after dropping 777 points on
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Dow Crashes 777 Points
The market posted is worst ever point decline after Congress rejected the $700 billion bailout plan that looked like a
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Market Down Sharply Ahead of Vote
The market is down sharply this morning as concerns related to the government’s $700 bailout package continue. Congress and the
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Bailout Stalls, Likely to Get Done
Well, we all knew there would be drama when it came to getting the $700 billion banking bailout package approved
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Financial Stocks Lower
The market has been moving slightly higher this morning as Congress debates the $700 billion financial rescue package for the
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Morgan Stanley and Wachovia Storm Higher
Ditto. The market is up ANOTHER 400 points shortly after lunch and for the week the Dow is actually positive.
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Kraft Replacing AIG
Out with the old, in with the new. There will be a change in one of the Dow stocks as
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Quick Hits
The market just opened for trading and here is what we’re following. The Dow is down 163 to 10,895 within
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Dow Drops 500 Points
I’ve been calling for “the drop” for a couple of weeks now and yesterday could have been the start of