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We are doubling our position in First Majestic Silver (AG), to approximately 6.5 percent of our portfolio. Like gold, silver prices plummeted last month. However, the current low price of silver is not sustainable because it is below the all-in cost of producing silver, conservatively estimated to be average… Read More

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Stocks ended the day yesterday at a record closing high. Further gains could be in store given the mixed economic data out lately and the likelihood the Federal Reserve will reiterate its easy monetary stimulus program when its policy setting group wraps up a two-day meeting tomorrow. But our market… Read More

We closed out the EMC Corp. (EMC) July 23 call option after the stock failed to respond favorably to the company’s earnings report, pocketing a small profit in the process. We replaced the EMC trade with the Lexmark (LXK) July 27 put option. That stock, however, has gotten a lift… Read More

The US Commerce Department reported today that the US had expanded at an annualized rate of 2.5 percent in the first quarter, below consensus expectation of 3 percent. Furthermore, farmers helped boost numbers by refilling their silos after last year’s devastating drought sharply decreased crop output. Net of this transitory… Read More

We are doubling our position in Osisko Mining (OSKFF) to approximately 6 percent of our portfolio. While we can’t rule out the possibility that gold prices could turn lower in the near term, we think the worst of the selling is likely over. After a bunch of operational issues last… Read More

Sell to close the EMC Corp. (EMC) July 23 call option, at the market. Buy to open the Lexmark (LXK) July 27 put option. Use a limit order to pay no more than $1.90 per contract. EMC Corp. (EMC) reported decent quarterly results in what has been a difficult… Read More

It’s earnings season, and stocks are driven in large part by what companies have to say in their quarterly earnings reports and by their forward guidance. And so far, the results, while not exactly record-setting, haven’t been too disappointing either. Stocks with higher domestic exposure (such as consumer staples, utilities… Read More

For now, we continue to view our trades on a stock-by-stock basis. Last week, based on the stocks’ relative strength and with our options being out of the money, we closed Brinker International (EAT) and Avon Products (AVP) put options for a loss of 74 and 63 percent, respectively, rather… Read More

Buy to open the EMC Corp. (EMC) July 23 call option. Use a limit order to pay no more than $0.77 per contract. Enterprise storage systems and software maker EMC Corp. (EMC) has been under intense selling pressure lately, having declined more than 15 percent in a little over… Read More