I decided to liquidate some of my positions in SPY and FFIV. SPY started to diminish due to time decay so I decided to sell my puts and I will buy November puts since the market is slumping down. I will see at the end of the trading session today. Definitely the market broke thru Continue reading →
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SPY – will support hold?
Today’s trading will be crucial. The market opened at its support line at $112 level. Will it hold this support or will we break it? If we hold, we may spike back up and stay in the corrective pattern. If we however close below this support line, the market will be poised to slump down Continue reading →
Stocks set to dip on fresh fears about Greece
By CNNMoney staff October 3, 2011: 7:39 AM ET Premarkets. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — On the first trading day of the fourth quarter, U.S. stocks were poised to fall at the open; following a sell off in world markets, as investors fret over Greece’s ability to avoid default and a slowing global economy. Dow Jones Continue reading →
Market ends third quarter with heavy losses
As I wrote in my previous post, investors were just buying a pure wishful thinking, hoping for better times, improvement and trying to avoid recession (in their thoughts). Although some data from US came better than expected, they weren’t strong enough to offset bad data from Europe. So watch the European debt crisis, since it Continue reading →
Stocks end with intraday losses
As I was expecting a few hours ago, this market wasn’t strong enough to sustain the gains and closed lower on intraday basis. SPY opened at $118.53 and closed the day at $117.55, not a huge loss, but an evidence of losing steam. Also periodicals are speaking about downside risks outweighing upside. I will see Continue reading →
The market continues up on hopes and wishfull thinking
Investors are tired, exhausted and frustrated seeing the market tanking for this long time without any bright light at the end of the tunnel. Therefore they are literally buying any news and today is a great example of them trying to convince themselves that we are out of the forest and we will be growing Continue reading →
Funny Money
It is really funny watching what the market is doing these days. Optimism replacing pessimism within days. Last week we heard what the worst week for the markets it was since 2008 and today we see a great optimism again just to be replaced with a pessimism next week. Today, the news are trumpeting how Continue reading →
Impressive rally today, but not convincing
The market rallied (SPY) today and the rally was impressive after a week of fall. But what is behind this rally? Let’s take a look at fundamental reasons, at least, what I could see on the Internet: Stocks jump on hopes for a Europe fix; Dow up 272 That’s what Yahoo! says as its top Continue reading →
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