Who likes this market? Raise your hand. Hmmm…looking around, not seeing many hands raised. Ok, that makes sense. Since the beginning of the year markets have continued their upward climb started since the frightening dip in early October, and all I hear and read are complaints: why won’t this market pull back? why can’t I [...]
It’s been quite the ride up for markets in 2012. If you’re keeping score, we have the SPX up 6.7%, Nasdaq up 11.5% and the Dow Industrials higher by about 5%. Pretty good numbers for an entire year, but for the first five weeks of the year? Off the charts! Could the markets have been [...]
The Shadow Knows – That is a line from long-running radio program ‘The Shadow’ during the go-go days of the 30′s, 40′s and 50′s. Well, in 2012 there is another ‘shadow’ out there – and it KNOWS ALL. I’m talking about the portfolio shadow, a platform that tracks trades, performance and positions. The very easy-to-use [...]
All we needed was a bit more fear and walking out on the ledge of ‘market death’ to bring everyone back to reality. All is well here on the homeland and in Europe again – thanks to that great little machine we call the printing press. I’m probably being a bit facetious but the investing [...]
With the second half in the rear view mirror there is so much to look forward to as we attack the rest of 2011. I certainly hope we have less chills and thrills in the back half of the year – maybe just a bit off settling down with a bit more stability. So as [...]
Some of you may be familiar with my trading style while others are not. I wanted to take some time explaining what we are doing here at Explosive Options and why we do some things. We may approach the trade from an unusual viewpoint but it works – and that is all that matters. This [...]
The first of the month has normally been a positive market day. In fact, only ONCE in the past year did we have a negative day – the last one in March of this year. Today’s action was nasty and particularly troublesome after yesterday’s very strong performance. Tuesday had all the characteristics – positive volume, [...]
Market Presents Challenges (For Some!) AAPL, BRCM, SWKS
Have you missed this tremendous bull run? Since Oct 3 the SPX has put on some weight, a robust 330 points (30%) from 1070. Nasdaq has blasted forward past 3K, a number not seen in more than a dozen years. The Dow Industrials is positioned above 13K now, up a solid 8.3% for the year. [...]
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