Adding Netflix Puts to Volatility Portfolio because the Bear isn’t over
To subscribe to JAM you need to fill in some details below including, ahem, some info on how you'll pay us. A subscription is $199 (although if you're subscribing with one of our special offers it will be lower) for a year for ongoing and continuing access to the...Santa Claus rally–but on very little substance
Traders seem determined to use the traditionally low-volume days between Christmas and New Year's to stage the traditional Santa Claus rally--bear market or no bear market. But today's substantial rally seems stitched out of very thin cloth. We had a recommendation...Adding Amazon Puts as a “Portfolio Protection Pick” in my Volatility Portfolio
On December 21 I made Amazon Put Options my second Portfolio Protection in my completely revised Special Report How to Protect Your Portfolio Without Selling Your Portfolio on this site. I said I would buy the put for my Volatility Portfolio on Monday, December 24. On...Adding Boeing Puts to my Volatility Portfolio today
On Friday in my completed revised Special Report How to Protect Your Portfolio Without Selling Your Portfolio I made Put Options on Boeing (BA) my first Protection Pick. What I wrote then was "Even after being punished in the down turn to date, shares of Boeing are...Adding to gold position in my Perfect 5 ETF Portfolio today
Don't know whether or not you've noticed, but stocks have been sinking like a stone. (Actually I sure you've noticed that.) And that gold has been climbing. (This you may have overlooked in all the other excitement.) The Federal Reserve signal that it is backing off...Markets blow a raspberry to Christmas–and Mnuchin
And Merry Christmas! to you too. The stock market delivered a lump of coal on Christmas Eve. (Does this mean the financial markets are part of the dastardly war on Christmas? Say it ain't so, Goldman Sachs!) The Standard & Poor's 500 index closed down 2.71% at...Completely and newly revised for the bear: Special Report How to Protect Your Portfolio Without Selling Your Portfolio
This Special Report was revised--extensively- on December 21. When I posted the first version of this Special Report back in November, the bear market was just a possibility--although a highly likely possibility--and my best projection on how the market would develop...Selling AAPL, FCX, NKTR, PXD, VIX options out of Volatility Portfolio on likelihood of continued downward trend in the market and looming expirations
In November and December I selectively added risk to my Volatility Portfolio in the expectation of a strong seasonal January Effect Rally and the odds of an end of the year bounce that would, temporarily, disrupt the developing bear market. I thought that was a...Pulling the plug on any significant end of the year rally: Selling small cap Russell 2000 ETF
Going into December, I thought there was enough chance of a strong end of the year rally/ January effect rally to make taking a risk on small company stocks a reasonable call. Even though the entire market looked shaky in the longer term. (That is in 2019.) With the...Worst of both worlds from the Federal Reserve stokes continued selling
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve delivered the worst of both world's, as far as Wall Street is concerned. And the 25 basis point increase in benchmark interest rates doesn't even count--since that was what the market was expecting. First, the Fed drew attention to...Video: We’re Used to Amazon Disrupting Everything Retail – But Now it’s Intel’s Turn
Video: We’re Used to Amazon Disrupting Everything Retail – But Now it’s Intel’s Turn. This particular move suggests more disruption ahead for the entire technology sector.