Today the central banks claimed their will to allow unlimited access to dollars for whoever needs them. Don’t be too excited. It will not be you or me who can ask for the new printed money. It will be given to those who spent them recklessly and now need a bailout. How often have we Continue reading →
Making 45% Annually Trading Options Against Dividend Growth Stocks
Germany is seeing debt crisis problems
On Wednesday Germany offered a new set of 10-year bonds on Wednesday’s auction for about 6 billion Eur. Due to lack of interest from investors, almost 3/4 of of the offer wasn’t sold. One reason could be the upcoming holiday here in the US so the volume was low overall. However as Reuters mentioned this Continue reading →
PG trade adjustment, SPY & POT puts new trade
I am trying to trade longer term options trades. One of the trade I opened recently was long (April 2012) puts on Procter & Gamble (PG). Now I want to be opening short term trades against this trade to produce income. Same thing I am doing with my SLV long term holding and the same Continue reading →
Consolidating market in Rally atempt
Today the market jumped up forming a triangle consolidation pattern after nice rally. We bounced off of the lows in October and had very wild and extended rally. Although I didn’t believe in this rally due to fundamental underlying data, this consolidation may change everything and we are truly forming a new bull trend. Every Continue reading →
Stocks plunge on Italian worries – it’s happening
Here we go. What economists were saying all the time and the markets were successfully ignoring has happened this morning. As I wrote in my previous posts, the Italian bonds raised at 7.4% rate which is not sustainable for Italian economy to pay (Italy’s budget can afford paying a rate around 4.6% only). Italy at Continue reading →
Stocks ended higher today
Late rally today pushed DOW index back above 12,000 points on Euro optimism. In my opinion this optimism doesn’t take into account Italy’s problems with ECB and bonds rate rocketing up. As per the news, the rally started at 2 pm EST on news that Greece will receive the latest installment of emergency aid. However, Continue reading →
European Central Bank (ECB) warns Italy to stop buying its bonds
ECB warned Italy last weekend that it would stop buying its bonds if it won’t pass required reforms of Italian budget to get Italian debt under control, said Yves Mersch a member of a bank governors board. Currently ECB is buying Italian bonds to slow down rates and prevent them from skyrocketing. Although ECB’s interventions Continue reading →
Italian 10-year bonds reached all year record highs today
The Italian bond rates reached all year new highs since Italy joined Eurozone. Today, it raised to 6.67% and that creates a tremendous pressure to Italian budget to pay their loans. ECB intervention couldn’t help this skyrocketing move. Due to investors’ worries about Italian debt the new rate reached almost 7% and as Reuters says Continue reading →
Stocks Will Be Cheap When the S&P 500 Tumbles 25% Says Portfolio Manager
There’s an old saying about lousy stocks on Wall Street: “If you liked XYZ at $50, you must love it at $25.” Along those same lines, it could be argued that if you think stocks are cheap now, just wait until you see how cheap they are when earnings estimates come down. According to Mike Continue reading →
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