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Posted by Martin October 22, 2011

Stocks up again on earnings

Last week I didn’t have time for updating my web site. There are only two facts: 1) The market was rising again, this time on earnings 2) I am no longer strongly convinced that the market will go down. That means I will stay aside a bit in regards to trading SPY. We may go Continue reading →

Posted by Martin October 10, 2011

Is the market rebounding?

Today’s trading, although based on hopes, could be read as a reversal approach. We broke significantly above 50 day MA. The volume was a bit weak, but still, the rally can count as a breakout. The question is whether it will mark a rally attempt and we are ending the bearish trend or this would Continue reading →

Posted by Martin October 07, 2011

Unbelievable movement of the market

I am surprised what moves the market today. When you look at all data coming out of Europe and the US, one cannot believe this market is rising. Well, it is happening (maybe today I should say it was happening, since I think we are at reversal). I swallowed my pride, sold my SPY puts Continue reading →

Posted by Martin October 04, 2011

Stock market in rollercoaster

Wow, today’s trading was really crazy! I must admit I suffered some big hits today. Well, overall I am still up and making money, but some $500 day loss. Little bit less than that, actually. What’s crazier here is the reason for such irrational move of rallying up in the last 30 minutes of trading. Continue reading →

Posted by Martin October 04, 2011

S&P 500 enters a bear territory

Experienced traders and investors analyzing markets on daily basis knew this in the beginning of August 2011. The market started this process of reversal in February 2011. we went sideways and we were creating a head and shoulders pattern (see my previous posts speaking about it during June and July, when this was becoming more Continue reading →

Posted by Martin October 03, 2011

Profit taking

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 →

Market ends third quarter with heavy losses

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 →

Posted by Martin September 26, 2011

Impressive rally today, but not convincing

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 →

Posted by Martin September 23, 2011

SPY puts closed on rising market

The market waved losses at the opening and continued growing after yesterday’s sell-off. Looks like investors are at ease for now. It is understandable. I decided to get out of my SPY puts to protect my gains and re-enter later. Yesterday SPY didn’t get through its support level. The last 30 minutes rally pushed the Continue reading →

Posted by Martin September 22, 2011

Update on market – more profit taking this morning

It is nice to be correct. The market was poised to a bearish trend and it sure did. In just two sessions we saw big sell offs. I was thinking what would push the market that down? Was it FED? I doubt this would be the only reason. There are a few items I could Continue reading →