Showing posts with label stock market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stock market. Show all posts
Friday, September 16, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Options Flow Recap Aug 30th
Macro / Thematics
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Indx EEM - 58,000 of the December 34 / 40 put spread was bought for $1.34 versus a sale of 50,500 of the September 41 / 46 put spread was sold at $3.23; 50,500x
iShares MSCI Japan Index EWJ - 20,000 of the January 9 / 10 strangle was sold at $0.76 and tied to 240,000 shares at $9.70. Separately, 10,000 of the January 10 calls were sold at $0.40.
iShares MSCI South Korea Index Fund(ETF) EWY - 2500 of the September 45 / 55 put spread was bought for $1.70.
iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index FXI - 18,750 of the September 40 calls were sold at $0.27.
GLD - 5000 of the October 200 / 220 call spread was bought for $1.475 tied to $178.50.
IYR - 20,000 of the September 50 puts were sold at $0.24.
QQQ - 11,000 of the November 52 puts were sold at $1.75. The puts were sold to open.
XLI - 5000 of the December 33 calls were sold at $1.49
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Morning Note
August 9, 2011
US futures continue to be volatile, with Dow futures oscillating between a loss of (318) points and a gain of 324 points.
Today's main focus will be the release of the Fed statement from today's FOMC meeting, scheduled for 14:15 ET.
Treasury Auction of 3-yr notes at 13:00 ET
Greece sells €812.5M 6M T-Bills, average yield 4.85% vs prior auction 4.90%, bid to cover 3.06 vs prior 2.88
Monday, August 8, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Strategy for Finding the Best Stocks to Trade
I always find it interesting to hear how my competition trades... sounds like he mostly looks for jump base explode and drop base implode set ups after companies report earnings...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
How To Use the Most Volatile Stocks List
I had a trader ask me how to use the "Most Volatile Stocks List" last week so I wanted to give an example of how I use it. This might not work for everyone, risk management is key, experience is key, and I'm not giving investment advise. This is purely educational.
The post: Volatility = Opportunity is posted everyday and screens for names that trade over 1MM shares of stock, over 5k options, and has an implied volatility (IV) over .6. We post the top 20 because... well that's what we use.
The post: Volatility = Opportunity is posted everyday and screens for names that trade over 1MM shares of stock, over 5k options, and has an implied volatility (IV) over .6. We post the top 20 because... well that's what we use.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Use Tape Reading to Improve Trading Performance
Tape reading is a very important topic for traders. It's more of an art than a science and experience is key. This is more of a video for beginners as the concepts are very basic but I'm always interested to hear how other traders do it. Ken Calhoun is a momentum guy and he trades stocks so take it for what its worth.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
What a day what a day!
"Cup check!" A favorite juvenile mantra of mine back in the Little League days echoed in my head today. This was not the sort of day that you forget to wear your cup. This movement is bringing a little bit of life into the options markets I trade so it is exciting, but I am on my toes for sure. In other words, I didn't get nailed today and I was glad to have my cup on. How about tomorrow? What then? Check us out after the break!
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| Who does this? Morally reprehensible. But pretty funny. |
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