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No Winners Yet
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: March 3rd, 2008 at 9:50 am EST
This Friday the Market did the opposite of the previous week. The DOW sank over 300 points. The usual suspects were responsible: weak GDP, sinking real estate, credit crunch, more write downs at financial institutions and rising commodity prices. I am sure you too are tired of reading and hearing the same […]
The Tug of War
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: February 25th, 2008 at 10:29 am EST
The Bulls and Bear continue their tug of war on Wall Street. The general bias continues to be to the downside. However, the bears have not succeeded in taking the market to new lows as yet. Just as every rally is sold, it seems smart money is buying the good stocks on […]
Calling All Bargain Hunters
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: February 18th, 2008 at 8:13 am EST
“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” is one of my favorite quotes by John Maynard Keynes. Traders should keep that in the back of their mind at all times. It applies to bull and bear markets. More downside remaining in the recent carnage on Wall Street? It […]
Will Cheap Money Help?
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: February 11th, 2008 at 9:46 am EST
An economic slowdown this year is starting to be baked into the plan. The question on many minds is whether the recent steep drop in interest rates and the $168 billion fiscal stimulus package will help take the sting out of the economic beating that has just started. It may seem like a […]
Hostile Bids and The FOMC
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: February 4th, 2008 at 8:53 am EST
The Market got its 0.50% drop in interest rates. Overnight Fed Funds rate now stands at an even 3%. Bad economic news during the week became good news and the Market decided to run up on decent volume. The big news of the week was the hostile bid by Microsoft for […]
The Trend Is Still Down
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: January 28th, 2008 at 11:35 am EST
Well we did get bad news and heavy selling on Monday in the World Markets that led the Feds to drop overnight rates a whole 0.75%. That provided a small relief and the Market saw a little bump up. Given the current sentiment and volatility it is difficult to take profitable positions. […]
The Stimulus Package
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: January 22nd, 2008 at 7:33 am EST
If you were short the market for the past few months, then the current situation is great for your portfolio. However, if you were long then it has been a painful couple of months. I admit I never thought it would get so bad. I am hurting this month, but I learned […]
Big Bada Boom
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: January 14th, 2008 at 2:27 pm EST
The title reflects my thoughts as I poured over the charts for the major indices and the VIX. As predicted last week, we saw more weakness in the Market. The Feds did not drop interest rates as some may have hoped for. According to Goldman Sachs, recession later this year seems to […]
Will We Borrow & Spend In 2008?
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: December 31st, 2007 at 11:49 am EST
It seems we are still using old tricks to solve new problems in the hope of achieving new results. Insane. The Feds are most probably going to drop interest rates in the early part of 2008. In the hope that financial institutions will borrow and lend to each other more freely than […]
Who Stole the Christmas Rally?
Author: Ravi Prakash (info)
Website: http://www.optionstradinglessons.com/
Posted: December 17th, 2007 at 11:31 am EST
I thought the Market would have been happy with the 0.25% drop in interest rates, but like a spoilt child the Market never seems happy with what it gets. The government also announced that both PPI and CPI are crawling up. I continue to believe that true inflation is higher than the government […]
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