October 2011 – RiskReversal

In Between Days: Trick or Treat?

October 31, 2011 by CC • Commentary

WSJ Well, that wasn’t pretty. Stocks slid right off the opening bell, and then proceeded to continue its descent right into the closing bell, bringing a fine October rally to an ugly end. In the …

Update: New MS Trade and Some Updated Thoughts on the Brokerage Sector

October 31, 2011 by Dan • Commentary

Update Oct 31st, 2011 at 3:43pm: With MS down almost 8% (at 17.77 ) since putting this trade on Friday afternoon, I can now sell the spread for .40 (paid .20). I am going to …

MorningWord: 10/31/11

October 31, 2011 by Dan • Commentary

MorningWord: 10/31/11: As I write at 9.20am, the headlines read like a horror show as it relates to the ability of European leaders to get funding for last weeks proposed bailout……The Euro is getting slammed down 1% …

Trading Diary: Oct 24th – Oct 28, 2011

October 30, 2011 by Dan • Commentary

Last week as detailed in the previous post “Weekender” was a one way street for making money from a macro level…..At the moment I am a bit more focused on the micro and have decided …

Weekender

October 30, 2011 by Dan • Commentary

Last week was just one of those weeks where you had to join the herd, cover your eyes and put blind faith in generally in-effectual European Policy makers to make money from the long side. …

New MS Trade and Some Updated Thoughts on the Brokerage Sector

October 28, 2011 by Dan • Commentary

Here’s a trade I’ll be talking about on Options Action tonight: NEW TRADE MS: Well, I clearly got the direction wrong this week, but with some of the trade management (below) I was able to …

Ask Us Anything (Well, Not Anything)

October 28, 2011 by CC • Commentary

Dan and I answer alot of emails from subscribers looking for insight into our trading strategies and options trading in general. We’re going to do occasional posts where we highlight some of these questions and …

4th Update: Netflix (NFLX): Q3 Earnings Preview and New Short-Term Bearish Trade

October 28, 2011 by Dan • Commentary

4th Update Oct 28th, 2011 at 11:52am: With NFLX at 83.57 I am going to close out the last bit of this position at 8.40. I hope this was instructive to some of you to …

MorningWord: 10/28/11

October 28, 2011 by Dan • Commentary

MorningWord: 10/28/11: “Where will all the martyrs go when the Virus cures itself? Were will all go when it’s too late?” Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day Last night I saw Green Day at a small …

In Between Days: Bad Haircut

October 28, 2011 by CC • Commentary

Pragmatic Capitalism Let’s not sugarcoat tonight’s “resolution” – this is merely a temporary measure that will buy them more time to resolve the true cause of the currency crisis. Let’s take a brief look at …

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