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Past was as Difficult to Predict as the Future

Till last week, rather Monday, the sentiments were bearish. In fact very bearish. Then it was a BIG Tuesday. Index moved high and higher for the reasons which otherwise might have been considered...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: market psychology, us market
OP Newsletter: Outperformance (Apr’08, +4.9%)

An interesting week for the OPNewsletter as it grew from +1.3% last week to +4.9% this week resulting in +3.6% gains for the week while Dow, S&P, Russell and NASDAQ finished -1.2%, -1.1%, 0.3%,...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: op newsletter, option trading, past performance, paulson, recession
Volatility Edge in Options Trading

One complete book on Volatility!! What??? Yes, that was the reaction I had on my mind when I received an offer from Julie (of Financial Times Press) to review manuscript of an upcoming book...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: jeff augen, ops reading list, options trading, volatility
So You Think Markets are Efficient, Think Again

There are two schools of thought about how Mr market behaves. Efficient and Not Efficient market theory, simply. I surely don’t belong to Efficient Market Theory (EMA) school. I believe that...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: ema, nmx, cme, efficient market theory, m&a
OPNewsletter Subscribers’ Views: Part-2

Thank you dear subscribers. I am touched by all your feedback and many thanks for taking time and writing few (in fact a lot) of words about OPNewsletter. Read here for the earlier customer feedback,...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: op newsletter, us market
Google Stock Pin: +86.4%

After 6 months of paper trading and 2 months of real trading including one month with OPN subscribers (as speculative trade), I think I am beginning to understand Google’s (GOOG) behavior. This...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: goog, aapl, bull put spread, credit spread, google
Fed, Markets and VISA

I mentioned my “gut feel” that we may see “Buy on Anticipation and Sell on News”. Alright, so markets did fall from 2:15pm till 2:30pm but to rise all the way back up and...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: v, daily report, fed, gs, ipo
Fed and The Markets

Here is one post that I had originally published in October before Fed aggressively started its journey of cutting interest rates. Since then “China” stocks have plummeted big time and...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: fed, gs, leh, rate cut, us market
OP Newsletter: Outperformance (Mar’08 Closed, +16.5%)

Another successful month in spite of ups-n-down of the markets. OPNewsletter closed Mar’08 completely for a +16.5% gains, nearly a 1% more than last week when were were left with only 20%...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bsc, fed, fomc, op newsletter, options trading
Welcome to WallStreet!

As of this writing Bear Stearns (BSC) was down 40% and it also took the whole market on a south trip with it to celebrate “significantly deteriorated liquidity”. These are the same guys...

Started in OptionPundit • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: bsc, us market, vix, wall street