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Top Gun FP Client Note: Two Stocks For A Range Bound Market
February 19, 2010 · Category: Business and Investment Philosophy, Income Investing, Macro Economics, Market Commentary, Options, Portfolio Management, Stocks, Top Gun Financial Planning
In range bound markets, 90% of the return comes from dividends.
- Vitaly Katsenelson, author of Active Value Investing: Making Money In Range Bound Markets (Wiley, 2007), on CNBC's Closing Bell, Tuesday February 16
In last week's ...
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Susquehanna’s Billionaire Founder Jeff Yass Honed His Mind on Probability Theory And Poker
September 28, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Options, Poker, The Investment Advice Business
I learned more about option trading strategy by playing poker than I did in all my college economics courses combined.
- Jeff Yass, The New Market Wizards: Conversations With America's Top Traders (1992), p. 396 - ...
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You Know I Don’t Play Bad Baby!
Well, well, well, whatdyaknow: Google beat analyst expectations (GOOG Earnings Release) and the stock, weighed down by fear and pessimism, is borne again.
Google lovers must be feeling like they've been touched by the holy ghost because they ...
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Getting Ready For Google
With no clear indication of which way revenues are trending, this is a tough quarter to trade.
- Jason Helfstein, Analyst, Oppenheimer
The uncertainty surrounding Google's forthcoming 1st quarter earnings report is incredible. Are they going to ...
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Somebody Knew About News Corps’ Bid For Dow Jones – And Made a Killing
May 2, 2007 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Options
An interesting little post (subscription required - ???) over at the WSJ's Deal Journal blog:
Trading [in Dow Jones options] was particularly heavy April 17 - the day we're told the approach from Murdoch was made ...
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Did Steve Jobs and His Executive Team Steal $40 Million From Apple Shareholders in 2001? ; Truth vs. Power: Even If He Did, He’ll Be Untouched
April 26, 2007 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Options
Ever since reading Steve Jobs phenomenal graduation speech at Stanford University in 2005 I've been a fan and a believer that he was a business leader with a solid moral center. But a startling front ...
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Sell the Nasdaq-100 Trust Jun07 $43 (QQQFQ) Calls
March 6, 2007 · Category: Options
In a post from about 3 weeks ago (Wed Feb 14, 2007) entitled "All Clear Ahead" I recommended going long the Nasdaq-100 Trust in the form the Jun07 $43 calls (QQQFQ) which could be had ...
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A Breakdown of Today’s Trading in Nasdaq 100 Trust (QQQQ) Options
February 14, 2007 · Category: Options, Sentiment Analysis
Puts Calls Put/Call Ratio
February 117,646 134,162 .88
March 236,974 160,127 1.48
April 43,401 9,966 4.35
Source: Scottrade, as of approx. 3:00pm EST
What this tells us, I think, is that there are still alot of bears out there.
Even though options buyers are bullish ...
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All Clear Ahead – Bernanke Gives the Market a Green Light
February 14, 2007 · Category: Market Commentary, Options
In his semiannual testimony before Congress which began this morning (Wed) at 10am EST Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that he is comfortable with current interest rate levels and that the factors contributing to inflationary ...
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Top Gun Closes Out Its S&P 500 Trade for a 35.6% Gain in 8 Weeks
January 22, 2007 · Category: Options
Our S&P 500 calls (Jan07 $137) expired last Friday. I closed them out in the last hour of trading on Friday for $5.90 - (I forgot to give the instructions to do so here on the ...
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