Dshort The S&P 500 closed up 0.49% after slipping briefly into the red during the last ninety minutes of trading. August 2011 is now on the books as the worst S&P 500 monthly performance since …
Continue readingOk Well I am sure I will be a little early here, we have gone a pretty healthy distance off of the lows in a short period of time….. I want to start putting on …
Continue readingUpdate Aug 31, 2011 at Noon: Since the Original Post last week Sprint has been a little volatile to say the least….I first bought the common at 3.25 and then sold it on WSJ report …
Continue readingAll appears to be good with the world again…..Asia was generally up in sympathy with the Fed’s outlook, Europe is up soundly up across the board on German Chancellor Merkel’s ability to quell the revolt within …
Continue readingAs I write at 9am, the S&P500 futures are down 70bps, the DAX is down ~80bps near the lows of the session, following a strong showing by Asia overnight up in sympathy with our strength …
Continue readingDShort The S&P 500 finished the first day of the week with a twelve handle at 1210.08, a 2.83% advance from Friday’s close. The final volume numbers aren’t in as I type this, but a …
Continue readingI want to do a little trade management on a couple of the trades I put on Friday morning. I expressed my near-term bullish views in common stock because it just seemed the easiest way …
Continue readingNEW TRADE Aug 29th, 2011: Please look at comments below from earlier in the month…..my View still stands….I am re-intiating this position…. 2nd Update July 28th, 2011, 10:15am: Update: CSCO: Rising Tides Will …
Continue readingUpdate 9;50am: I paid 1.30 for this Call Fly when stock was below 113. Over the past month as the stocks of most large U.S. money center bank and brokerage stocks got creamed, some managements stuck to …
Continue readingFriday’s market action was not what most expected given the news that we got……GDP, while not that much worse than expectations, was by no means encouraging for those hoping that we are not heading into …
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