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Image by Qiao-Da-Ye賽門譙大爺 via Flickr Weekly Update  January 11, 2005  We’re off to a great start so far in the early going of 2006. And judging by the broadening scope of the rally last week, the bulls should remain firmly in control for at least… Read More

Our short-term indicators are slightly bearish again this week, but we won’t rule out further gains in share prices before a meaningful decline sets in. That’s why we’re sticking with our market strangle position in the February 127 Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipts call option (SPY + BW) and the… Read More

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Weekly Update  January 4, 2005  The New Year’s Eve party hats and noise makers have been put away and the confetti swept up, but revelers continue to party on Wall Street. Shrugging off the flat yield curve, investors… Read More

Moreover, momentum indicators continue to weaken, suggesting that trouble may not be far off. And yesterday’s trading confirms our rational for our holding a market strangle position in the February 127 Standard & Poor’s Depositary Receipts call option (SPY + BW) and the February 126 put option (SPY + NV)… Read More

We rolled over the January EnCana (ECA) option into the July 50 (ECA + GJ) contract. The January option was still well out of the money and wasn’t moving in concert with the underlying stock. By taking the loss on that option and moving to a longer-dated contract with a… Read More

Image by zopeuse via Flickr Weekly Update  December 21, 2005  It seems this is the year of the bad Santa. A global wave of incidents are giving old St. Nick a bad reputation of late, including 40 drunken Santas rampaging though a shopping district in… Read More

We’re off to a good start with our purchase yesterday of the FPL Group June 40 call option (FPL + FH). News broke early today that FPL Group (FPL) is in talks to acquire Baltimore-based Constellation Energy Group for more than $11 billion. A formal deal announcement could come sometime… Read More

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Weekly Update  December 14, 2005  But will we still call them Greenbacks? Congress is sending a bill to the White House for approval of the introduction of new dollar coins beginning in 2007. Each of the coins will… Read More

We’ve placed a-strangle" trade to profit from the stock market’s next move regardless of whether it’s a bullish or bearish swing. If you haven’t placed the trade already, it’s not too late to buy the February Standard and Poor’s Depositary Receipts (SPY) 127 call option (SPY + BW) and the… Read More

Image via Wikipedia Weekly Update  December 7, 2005  "…A day that will live in infamy." President Roosevelt used those words to describe December 7, 1941, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, which marked the U.S. entrance into World War II. The events of the following four… Read More