September 9th, 2010
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COMMENTARY for Thursday

Holding Put Options? Follow This Simple Rule…

by Rick Ackerman on July 8, 2010 12:59 am GMT · 11 comments

The Dow Industrials have rallied 367 points from Friday’s oversold lows, a feat that looks much less impressive when you consider that the blue chip average had lost 980 points in the preceding two weeks. Most of the frenetic buying over the last two days has been done by panicky bears who literally got caught short when stocks exploded on the opening bell Tuesday. We got caught mildly short at the turn ourselves after having broken a rule that anyone who trades options should heed rigorously – i.e., never, ever pass up an opportunity to take a partial profit when a put trade goes » Read the full article


TODAY'S ACTION for Thursday

Two Attractive Shorts

by Rick Ackerman on July 8, 2010 1:22 am GMT · 0 comments

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GCQ10 – August Gold (Last:1204.10)

by Rick Ackerman on July 8, 2010 1:09 am GMT

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SIU10 – September Silver (Last:18.075)

by Rick Ackerman on July 8, 2010 1:20 am GMT

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ESU10 – September E-Mini S&P (Last:1059.25)

by Rick Ackerman on July 8, 2010 6:03 am GMT

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GS – Goldman Sachs (Last:135.20)

by Rick Ackerman on July 8, 2010 6:18 am GMT

Goldman Sachs (GS) price chart with targetsWe haven’t done anything in Goldman in a while, but a moderate rally today could provide a good opportunity to get short with a tight stop-loss. Officially we’ll offer 200 shares at 136.83, stop 137.01, but if you want to use puts instead, try the August 125s.  You should pay no more than 2.80 for them, however, and the stop-loss will still apply. _______ UPDATE (11:11 a.m. EDT):  A short from 136.92 was stopped out minutes after entry for a tiny trading loss, although one could have partially covered the trade as low as 136.51. That’s how low GS dipped initially after opening on a $1+ gap. The actual high was 137.17, implying that higher highs lie ahead, but for now the stock has relapsed to a so-far low of 134.76. While it may seem as though our stop-loss was too tight, the pattern was sufficiently precise to justify the one we used. 

ECU10 – September Euro (Last:1.2691)

by Rick Ackerman on July 8, 2010 6:30 am GMT

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$USZ10 – December T-Bonds (Last:132^11)

by Doug McLagan on September 9, 2010 7:28 am GMT

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$+SLW – Silver Wheaton (Last:22.06)

by Rick Ackerman on August 27, 2010 9:07 am GMT

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