I do not see a gain in hundreds percent level too often. Many of my trades usually end up between 6% to 50% range. This time a scored a big win with my Apple (AAPL) bull call spread I opened at the beginning of December 2014. Apple is a company which is making money. It Continue reading →
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Archive for 2015
S&P 500 futures collapsed. If it doesn’t recover by tomorrow, markets will open down.
The news came in. Greece refused to apply for a bailout plan extension considering it “unacceptable”. This is sending dollar higher against Euro and S&P 500 futures just collapsed from last Friday’s new all-time high: Although there is still plenty of time for the futures to recover (until tomorrow morning when the US markets open) Continue reading →
Market outlook for the next week
On Monday markets will be closed due to President Day observation. For this week we will see a short trading. However, the most important trading happened last week. In my previous market outlook post I wrote about two patterns the market was about to attack – a wedge pattern and sideways channel. Last week, the Continue reading →
What to expect from SPX next week?
I am not trying to predict where the market would go next week. I simply do not know it and I am as clueless as everyone else. Will the market shoot up next week or will it fail and fall again? If I cannot predict the market, I would like to at least establish a Continue reading →
Undervalued stocks
In January I started publishing stocks I consider undervalued. I created an algorithm which browses through my watch list of 150 stocks and checks them whether they are priced per their fair value or not. It is a never ending quest of investors trying to find stocks which are undervalued. There is many opinions, models, Continue reading →
SPX still volatile and weak. Will the selling end or continue?
The SPX futures were able to recover before market opening so the markets opened slightly up this morning. Yet, it quickly dropped down to 1980 level where bulls took over and move the market back up to 2010 level. Very impressive run which could fool many bulls into thinking that selling is over. Super 8 Continue reading →
How do I select stocks for trading options?
A few of my followers and subscribers asked me the same question: “How do I evaluate stocks and select them to trade options”? When I was relatively a novice to trading options I also didn’t know what stocks to use trading options. But the selection process is exact same as if you select stocks to Continue reading →
Futures indicate very weak opening tomorrow morning
If you are already frustrated by two weak months we just passed (December 2014 and January 2015) it looks like we are going to see February 2015 as bad as January was. Futures are already trading at a steep discount indicating S&P 500 down -1.45% -29.35. If this drop continues until tomorrow morning, we may Continue reading →
Stocks to buy in February 2015
If you bought the stocks I recommended at the beginning of January 2015 and held them until now, you would be up 2.0%. After the volatile and wild month we just went thru, full of wild ups and downs I can’t believe, the stocks I selected for January ended up 20%. Although it wasn’t an Continue reading →
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