October 2, 2017 | Daily JAM, Perfect Five-ETFs |
Can I clear up one bit of confusion? ETFs are indeed passively managed investment vehicles. Their portfolios passively follow indexes rather than allocating money into the picks of a fund manager. But portfolios of ETFs put together by investors aren’t–and indeed can’t be–passively managed. And that’s why, this week, I’m launching my new Perfect 5 Active Passive ETF portfolio.
September 21, 2017 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
This probably seems counter-intuitive but I'm selling my emerging markets short, the Proshares Short MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (EUM), out of my Volatility and Jubak Picks portfolios on Standard & Poor's one notch downgrade of China's sovereign credit rating to A+...
September 13, 2017 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts |
This is another news event trade--with more time allowed before the event and for the event to play out. This trade is an effort to add leverage on that news to my equity position in MGM Resorts International (MGM) in my Jubak Picks Portfolio. Before the end of the...
September 12, 2017 | Daily JAM, Uncategorized |
Wow. That sure didn’t work the way I intended. Back on May 23 I added the July 21 $140 calls on Incyte (INCY) to my Volatility Portfolio. Those calls traded at $7.10 that day. As I wrote in my post that day, to make money on these options, I’d need to get a move of $4 or so to move the share price above $140 and to move the options into the money. My logic at the time was pretty simple.
August 22, 2017 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts |
Biotechs--and indeed any high price-to-earnings stocks perceived as risky--have taken more than their share of punishment in the nervous sell off of the last few weeks. Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR), for example, closed yesterday August 21 at $17.79. That's down from...
August 8, 2017 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts |
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May 15, 2017 | Daily JAM, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
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April 19, 2017 | Daily JAM, Short Term, VIX |
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April 10, 2017 | Daily JAM, FB, Stock Alerts |
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March 20, 2017 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
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March 9, 2017 | Daily JAM, GGAL, Volatility |
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March 6, 2017 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Volatility |
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