I never really thought about it, but a good strategy would be to sell out of the money puts at your loss point depending on if you’re bullish on a stock. I always tell myself I should set stop loss orders at -5% on all my stock purchases, but I never do, and it ends [...]
The story I got burned by options a couple years ago, and have stayed away ever since. But in the last few days, I’ve been learning how to manage risk using options, especially by using spreads. I decided to try out some spreads today in my optionshouse practice account. WARNING: If you are not familiar [...]
Here’s some little stock analyses I did today using QTStalker. Google Fibo 50% and upward trendline should help this go up a bit, assuming Android continues to get market share. Atwood Oceanic These guys are in a lateral channel between the 61.8 and the 38.2 Fibo lines. Buying around $25 looks like a win. Cintas [...]
I called Citibank tonight to confirm that one of my checks I deposited was finally collected. This is a good thing to ask your bank if you are concerned that a check might bounce. They indicated, as is said in the following audio recording, that if a check shows up in your transaction log online, [...]
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) this proposed amendment: (d) MINIMUM TYPE-SIZE AND FONT REQUIREMENT FOR CREDIT CARD APPLICATIONS AND DISCLOSURES.- All written information, provisions, and terms in or on any application, solicitation, contract, or agreement for any credit card account under an open end consumer credit plan, and all written information included in or on any [...]
Well, yet again the government thinks that it can fix all its problems by giving people the illusion that they have more money. Thanks for the loan I’ll have to pay back in my taxes (or, worse, they will just inflate the currency to pay it out)! I think I might just mattress (yes, I’m [...]
I have recently been reading Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt, and in Chapter 11, Section 2, I found an interesting analysis of tariffs and how they actually hurt everyone except the special interest producer. In his hypothetical example, the consumers pay more for the products, there is less export of American currency to [...]
It looks like Redhat is about to rally Stock up if it goes past $21! It could really zoom. The support is built up long term. I signed up for an options account with Scottrade today. It will allow me to: Buy puts and calls to open Write covered calls It’s too bad they don’t [...]
After looking through hundreds of stocks, I think I might check this one out: It looks technically promising. We’ll see how that turns out.
So Citibank is lame – they don’t think that Firefox in Linux is a supported browser, but seem to believe that it is under Windows and OSX. Well, good thing we have Greasemonkey around. // ==UserScript== // @name Citibank Continue // @namespace http://www.ralree.info // @description Makes the Citibank browser warning page go away // @include [...]
