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Options Trader Monday Outlook: Stuffing the Futures for Thanksgiving

So we are going to be back to testing our breakout levels early in the week and the volume should be low enough to allow a run back to last week’s highs. International traders took advantage of the Nikkei being closed and used the low Asian trading ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, ETF Investor,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Dow Jones,  NYSE

Options Trader Thursday Outlook: Get Ready for the Next Million Layoffs

Yes, Steely Dan predicted it in 1973, when Ronald Reagan was still Governor but we thought they were talking about earthquakes at the time. This year it’s clearly California’s 49.3% budget gap and 16.2% drop in state revenue that has them leading a ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, Seeking Alpha,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: FTSE,  Ronald Reagan,  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,  Jim Cramer,  NYSE

Options Trader Monday Outlook: 50 Ways to Dump the Dollar

G20 said it’s really not our habit to deflate Furthermore, we have elections and the voters hate to wait So we’ll indebt ourselves, buy lowering the rates There must be fifty ways to dump the dollar Fifty ways to dump the dollar You just buy a few ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, Seeking Alpha,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: G-20,  International Monetary Fund,  United States Department of the Treasury,  Timothy F. Geithner,  Gordon Brown

Options Trader Wrong-Way Weekly Wrap-Up: Party Like It's 1999

In early November 1999, the Dow was at 10,500. Not even 60 days later, the Dow was down 2,000 points in what used to be the second worst market collapse in history. It took us all the way until September of 2003 (33 months) for the Dow to really bottom ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, Seeking Alpha,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chevron Corporation,  U.S. Congress,  Continental Airlines, Inc.,  NYSE

Options Trader Testy Tuesday Outlook: Dow 9,650, Berkshire $60 Edition

Wheee, this is fun! Yesterday was like a roller coaster and my first Alert to Members of the morning targeted 9,775 as the on/off line for our bullish/bearish posture on our DIA covers. We whipped past that line right about 10 am as we got good reports ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, Seeking Alpha,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Warren Buffett,  International Monetary Fund,  Berkshire Hathaway,  Aberdeen Asset Management,  Paul Krugman

Options Trader: Testy Tuesday Morning

We lowered our bar on the Dow to 9,920 (green zone on Tim Knight’s chart) to make some bullish plays but that line held at 1pm and 1:45 and, by 3:50, the most they could manage on a spike was a few seconds over 9,900 and a big surge of volume into the ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, Seeking Alpha,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Tuesday Morning Corp.,  NYSE,  Intel,  Apple, Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Options Trader Monday Outlook: Is Momentum Shifting?

We’re still trying to get bullish, really we are… Yes we are reluctantly bullish and only technically bullish at that. All we are asking of the markets is for them to take out our very simple levels and hold them for more than a day or two. Those ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, ETF Investor,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: NASDAQ,  NYSE,  VERSUS Chanel,  BP p.l.c.

Options Trader Monday Outlook: Boosts from Bernanke, Beijing and Britain

What a morning already! The Dow is up 100 points since 10pm in the futures (as of 7:30 am), having fallen almost 100 points between Friday’s close and Sunday night as early Asian trading sold the markets off heavily. Gold is back at 1,055 now but oil ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, ETF Investor,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harvard University,  Niall Ferguson,  NASDAQ,  NYSE

Options Trader Friday Outlook: What Goes Up ...

We have struggled for two weeks trying to get more bullish but even at yesterday’s exciting close we remained 55% bearish and decided to hold that stance into the weekend. As I updated our $100K Portfolio last night, I was surprised and disappointed ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, ETF Investor,  16 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Stock Exchange,  Chicago Mercantile Exchange,  Posco,  SK Corp.,  Samsung Electronics

Options Trader Tuesday Outlook: Topping or Popping?

Will today be funner? Is funner a word? As you know, I have been determined to get more bullish and our Watch List is growing every day as I add more and more undervalued companies that still have room to fly if we are truly going to run the S&P back ...

From PHILIP DAVIS, Seeking Alpha,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: New York Giants,  Goldman Sachs,  Nas,  NYSE,  Bank of America

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