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Adding VIX Call Options to my Volatility Portfolio for bear market protection
I'm taking advantage of the 25% drop in the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index (VIX) to add March 19, 2019 Call Options at a strike price of $26.00 (VIX190319C00026000) to my Volatility Portfolio today. Â The VIX, otherwise know as the fear index, climbs when investors...
MGM Resorts International: That’s one ugly chart (and what that means for the market as a whole)
If you're thinking of doing some bottom fishing in a belief that the bear market might be nearing a bottom or that the recent Santa Claus rally could last into the first half of January, I'd suggest you take a look at some charts, either of individual stocks or of...
Adding Netflix Puts to Volatility Portfolio because the Bear isn’t over
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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...
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...
Buying Pfizer for my Dividend Portfolio
I'm going to take advantage of the selling in the market in general and in the drug sector in particular--on news of the asbestos liability at Johnson & Johnson and fears of the death of Obamacare (AKA the Affordable Care Act)--to buy Pfizer (PFE) in my Dividend...
Selling Citigroup out of my Dividend Portfolio
I've done a decent job in 2018 of staying away from the plunging financial sector--except in my Dividend Portfolio. There, sucked (or "suckered" if you prefer) by high dividend yields and the prospects of rising net interest margins as the Federal Reserve raised...
My second global warming pick is Jubak Picks member Xylem
Xylem (XYL) One of the "ironies" (for lack of a better word) of Global Warming is that it will put lots of water where many people don't want it, and it will leave many regions that have enough water now thirsty, and it will threaten to turn many existing supplies of...
Adding Vulcan Materials, first Global Warming pick, to 50 Stocks Portfolio
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