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Posted by Martin January 03, 2012

New trade – ATI; Trade adjustment – SLB

I am going to open a new contingent order: Allegheny Technologies Long Puts Contingency: If the stock’s last price is greater or equal than 54.20 then: BTO 1 ATI Apr21 2012 55 Put Price: at market (expected price per contract would be $6.2) Max risk: $620 Max gain: Unlimited (potential target: $11.70 or $1170 per Continue reading →

Posted by Martin January 03, 2012

Trade adjustment CAT

Trade adjustment on Caterpillar: Put Spread STC 1 CAT Jan21 2012 90 Put BTO 1 CAT Feb21 2012 90 Put STO 1 CAT Feb21 2012 85 Put Limit debit $0.15 New cost basis: $2.73

Posted by Martin January 01, 2012

New trades – GD, DB,

New trade ideas to be entered on Tuesday morning: General Dynamics Short stock STO 13 GD at stop = $66.24; limit = $66.10 If filled, stop loss at $68.36 Max risk: $27.56 Max gain: Unlimited Update: 01/03/2012 – trade canceled, it didn’t meet entry price Deutsche Bank Diagonal Put Spread BTO 1 DB Apr21 2012 Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 31, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012

The old year 2011 is coming to its end and it is a time to review the old year and make a resolution for the new year 2012. Reviewing the old year I must admit that it was a very successful year. I finally was able to get closer to my dream – trading for Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 21, 2011

Wacky Trading today

SPX opened lower on worries over the Europe (like we haven’t heard about it previously), then technicals got in, mainly Oracle’s bad results and pushed the market (SPX) all the way down to 1230. That looked scary! At least for me since two days ago I reversed my bearish outlook into bullish and I started Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 20, 2011

Is Santa Claus Rally undergo?

As I wrote yesterday, we could break down thru the support or bounce back. The market was oversold and there were no significant negative news to push it lower, however because of Europe, there still was a risk of going lower. It seems like we are bouncing instead. The SPX surged 2% up at opening Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 19, 2011

Today’s trading

Today's trading

The trading was a bit quiet today, however the market tanked due to banks. I also think it was partially due to European crisis as well. Recently in Germany a poll was taken and it revealed that more than 50% Germans wish to go back to Deutsche Mark rather than staying with Euro. More and Continue reading →

Does the market resume its downtrend?

We are technically still in bearish territory. When you look at where SPY (for example) is trading (or you can also take a look at SPX), it is still trading below 200 day MA. It however knocked on that resistance several times (which may be a sign of a break thru sometime in the future). Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 12, 2011

Even the EU leaders admitted they were surprised of the rally

Yesterday I have read an article in The Guardian that even the EU leaders were surprised of the Friday rally: “We were quite surprised that the markets reacted as well as they did on Friday,” EU officials said on Sunday. “We thought they would really tank and there’s still this legal uncertainty hanging over the Continue reading →

Posted by Martin December 09, 2011

Europa: once again an important “nothing” came out

Here we go again. How many times have we heard the same proclamations out of the European leaders summits? Investors are hoping for leaders to give them a solution and they take every word those politicians say very seriously and – overreact. So what we have heard so far? Nothing actually. Every day we hear Continue reading →