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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Volume 3, Number 38  September 20, 2006  Look for the Federal Reserve to keep its interest rate policy on hold again today. Headline inflation remains tame (even if the underlying data tells a somewhat different story). And with… Read More

Overall, the stock market is acting well this week and we see more gains in store in the very near future. This morning we sold the PowerShares Aerospace and Defense ETF (PPA) for a slight loss. The fund doesn’t appear to offer superior potential here and better ideas have presented… Read More

A mea culpa is in order. Our timing on two trades last week couldn’t have been much worse. Right after we sold our Glamis Gold call option for a nice profit the company announced that it was being acquired by Goldcorp at a considerable premium to the prevailing price, which… Read More

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Volume 3, Number 33  September 6, 2006  Hindsight is always 20/20. We won’t lament these trades further, but will instead focus on what’s to come. And right now, it’s pretty hard not to be bullish on the market’s… Read More

Yesterday we closed out our Glamis Gold November 35 call option (GLG + KG) position for a profit of approximately 30 percent over the course of five weeks. We’ll look to enter another position if gold and gold stocks pull back to important support or if they break out of… Read More

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Volume 3, Number 35  August 30, 2006  We’re no less bullish on the market’s near-term prospects than we were a week ago. Pessimism among individual investors remains relatively high, stocks by and large are cheap, oil prices are… Read More

There were only two changes to our positions in the past week. Our Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold (FCX) August 65 call option (FCX + HM) expired worthless last Friday. Another option that expired worthless (this time in our favor) was the Transocean August 80 call option we wrote last… Read More

Image by thinkpanama via Flickr Volume 3, Number 34  August 23, 2006  The bulls remain at the helm of this market (today’s trading notwithstanding), despite widespread perceptions to the contrary. The weight of technical indicators is pointing to a continuation of the rally. But small… Read More

In anticipation of a broad stock market rally we added the Nasdaq 100 Trust Shares December 38 call option (QQQ + LL) earlier today. We’ve set a limit to pay no more than $2.20 per contract. Given the current prevailing pessimism among investors and numerous favorable market indicators we could… Read More