Buy to open the iShares 20+ Year Treasury ETF (TLT) January 116 put option at the market. Our bond indicator has turned decidedly bearish, suggesting bonds will likely go down in the near term. We recommend buying to open a put against the TLT. This trade… Read More
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Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days The results are in. In high turnout, the Scots have decisively voted to stay a part of the United Kingdom as rationality triumphed over nationalistic pride. Despite pre-election polls… Read More
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee is meeting today and tomorrow to weigh monetary policy. The Fed is expected to wrap up its quantitative easing program in the next several weeks and traders will watch for a change in the central bank’s policy language for signs that it… Read More
The rally in the U.S. dollar appears to have run out of steam after a powerful uplift from early July. Still, it’s not clear that this will check the slide in gold, which is trading near an eight-month low. The many technicians that trade the metal may yet want to… Read More
Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days Our most recent recommendation has performed strongly and has quickly already come close to our initial, conservative buy-up-to price. Since joining our portfolio last Friday, the stock is up roughly 3 percent, compared to a 1.1 percent decline for the S&P 500. Lest anyone misses out on the opportunity, today we revise the suggested buy-up-to price upward (read more for details). We rate the stock a solid buy at the current price level. Read More
Stocks remain on a familiar treadmill these days. The S&P 500 continues to flirt with the 2000 level but hasn’t done since initially exceeding that mark. The blue chip average managed to close above that level for several consecutive sessions but has since given up some ground. Trading volume has… Read More
On Friday we closed out our iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) November 116 put option for a 9 percent gain in nine days. As we discussed above, while our indicators continue to have a downside bias, they’re not tilting so far as to justify holding a leveraged bearish bet. That leaves… Read More
Yesterday, the European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled its latest monetary policy decision. The ECB trimmed its main interest rate to a record-low 0.05 percent from 0.15 percent. Furthermore, the central bank will punish banks more for keeping funds in its (virtual) vault, lowering the overnight deposit rate to minus 0.2 percent from minus 0.1 percent. The ECB will also commence buying an unspecified amount of covered bonds from banks in October. Read More
Buy Nordic American Offshore (NAO) up to $19.50. One of the best in the business, Leon Cooperman owns 4.9 million shares of Nordic American Offshore (NAO) through his Omega Advisors, amounting to roughly a 21 percent stake in the company. This kind of massive bet is a screaming endorsement. Not… Read More
Sell to close the iShares Russell 2000 (IWM) November 116 put option at the market. Our Russell 2000 indicator remains essentially unchanged, our indicator for the S&P 500 has improved somewhat over the last day even though it, too, is still bearish. We recommend taking the conservative route and selling… Read More