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Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:55:36 -0700

A Better Way to Play With Materials (XLB)
The Striking Price column in this weekend’s Barron’s features John Marshall from Goldman, who suggests an...
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:31:31 -0700

Juicy Premium
Today’s selloff is finally registering in index volatilities in a bigger way, and we’re net sellers here. By no...
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:31:30 -0700

Calendar Options Close Trade Alert: EEM July/Sept Calendar Bonus Trade
We were hoping again this month that we’d be able to roll out the short options in our EEM calendar spread instead of...
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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:55:42 -0700

VIX : Fear :: DJIA : The Market
A shocking anecdote via Jason Goepfert at SentimenTrader: We’re doubtless seeing a lot of indications of apathy and...
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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:55:42 -0700

Calendar Options Close Trade Alert: IYR July/August Calendar Spread
We’re taking advantage of the fact that IYR’s share price is exactly at the sweet spot for our adjusted calendar...
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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:36:53 -0700

Ominous
There was some gossip from floor traders today to the effect that yesterday’s rally had as much to do with short-covering...
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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:43:26 -0700

Calendar Options Update: IYR July/August Calendar Spread
Yesterday we were blindsided by an explosive end-of-day rally in IYR. The gain for the day was a whopping...
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Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:32:57 -0700

Calendar Options Adjustment Alert: IYR July/August Calendar Spread
Earlier this morning, we described how our IYR July/August 61 calendar spread came under pressure yesterday. The share price...
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Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:39:49 -0700

Calendar Options: One-Two Punch
We expected EEM to give us trouble yesterday, but IYR was supposed to be a different story. It had closed last Thursday more...
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Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:20:30 -0700

The Twitter Contrary Indicator
Look, when programming gurus (and he’s one of the good guys, incidentally) are twittering about NYSE crashes and...
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Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:28:27 -0700

Calendar Options Adjustment Alert: EEM July/Sept Calendar Spread (Adjustment #2)
After a failed attempt to rally, EEM is down almost a dollar from Thursday’s close. Of the four options we discussed in...
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Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:37:38 -0700

Calendar Options: Monday Morning Update
Last week the market continued lower despite being deeply oversold, putting one of our Calendar Options positions in adjustment...
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Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:37:38 -0700

Modalities of the “Coming” VIX Spike
These days, you can’t escape the public outcry: traders want their VIX spike, and they want it now. Not too long ago, the...
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Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:55:55 -0700

Calendar Options: Adjustments, Part III — How We Adjust
We talk a lot about why adjusting iron condors is rarely, if ever, a good idea, and adjustment decidedly is not a part of the...
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:03:51 -0700

Bullish Roller Coaster
The market took us for a real ride today. We sent a note out to members well before the open when the Dow futures were down...
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Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:29:41 -0700

Calendar Options Adjustment Alert: EEM July/Sept Calendar Spread
With markets sharply down this morning, we want to extend the profit range of our EEM July/Sept calendar put spread to the down...
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Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:33:50 -0700

Weekend Reading: Oil, Iran, and Greener Capitalism
Here are some articles of interest we found this weekend. Subscribers, make sure you’re logged in and check out our...
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Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:00:08 -0700

Bonus Trade: Calendar Options – IYR July/August Calendar Spread
Neither of the scenarios outlined in yesterday’s Update materialized today. While the Dow was down more than 150 points...
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:55:08 -0700

Calendar Options Update — To Trade or Not to Trade
The July cycle so far has largely been a waiting game for our Calendar Options strategy. We wanted to wait until we’d...
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:55:08 -0700

Bulls: “We’ve Made a Huge Mistake…”
On a day like this, you really need to start off any post with some good news. Apparently, one of the greatest television...
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Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:34:47 -0700

If It Looks Like a Bubble,…
The clamor over whether “speculators” are driving oil’s parabolic run-up has become almost deafening, with...
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Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:28:51 -0700

Avoid Options on Inverse Index ETFs
Reader S. V. raises an interesting question: I am working on scenarios to trade the contra-ultra indexes like SDS to take...
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:02:45 -0700

Calendar Options: June Monthly Review
The first month of Calendar Options trading was characterized by the high day-to-day price volatility typical of market...
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Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:01:34 -0700

Calendar Options: How We Calculate Returns
It’s Monthly Review time, and we’ll be posting a review of our June Calendar Options trades shortly. But some...
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:42:43 -0700

June Monthly Review
We feel like we’re saying this every month, but it sure feels nice not to have any skin in the game come expiration...
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