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May | 2012 | ION Options - Blog
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ION Options – Blog. Archive for May, 2012. Greek Impact: A Traders Perspective. May 20, 2012. This is my real worry. In a sense, this situation would be equivalent to the run on the banks and brokerage stocks in 2008 here in the US but this would be on a country level. Remember back when the US Government allowed Bear Stearns to go under? If we do, I guess many people will have to retract their statements concerning Greece’s lack of importance and impact. May 10, 2012. There are a variety of reasons that...
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April | 2012 | ION Options - Blog
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ION Options – Blog. Archive for April, 2012. Chinese Currency Independence………Good, Bad, or Indifferent? April 17, 2012. This did not happen because the yuan was closely pinned to the US dollar meaning that as the dollar declined, the yuan declined with it thereby becoming cheap and neutralizing the advantage in trade between the US and China. This made the yuan artificially cheap……which it was. Back to ION Options]. Wall Street is Not Your Friend. Option Mini Contracts Debut. Blog at WordPress.com.
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October | 2012 | ION Options - Blog
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ION Options – Blog. Archive for October, 2012. Earnings Don’t Matter! October 29, 2012. Here we are in the midst of a very important earnings season and I am the first to say that I can’t believe I am saying that earnings do not matter! Could the Fed be Smarter than I Think? October 15, 2012. We might possibly get away with a devalued dollar’s effect on the citizens of the US but not on foreign countries. By devaluing the US Dollar, you would be decreasing the real value of the debt held in our curre...
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ION Options – Blog. Could the Fed be Smarter than I Think? Never a More Perfect Time for Stock Replacement. Earnings Don’t Matter! October 29, 2012. Here we are in the midst of a very important earnings season and I am the first to say that I can’t believe I am saying that earnings do not matter! Responses to “Earnings Don’t Matter! Feed for this Entry. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public).
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ION Options – Blog. Wall Street is Not Your Friend. Option Mini Contracts Debut. March 19, 2013. As option traders, we do have a strategy that can offset some of that expense, give us a limited downside risk and a decent percentage return. That strategy is the Vertical Spread. The problem is that the vertical spread also gives us a very limited profit potential! That is definitely NOT what we want in stocks like AAPL, GOOG, and AMZN! Responses to “Option Mini Contracts Debut”. Feed for this Entry. Option...
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ION Options – Blog. Too Much Action Causing too Little Reaction. Option Mini Contracts Debut. March 6, 2013. The best way to protect your long position is to buy puts against it. This can be done on an individual position or an entire portfolio. But, if I have learned anything in this market environment it is that my thought that options are the ultimate hedge was never correct. The real ultimate hedge, as it is today, is the US Federal Reserve Bank.The Fed! Wow, that is one hell of a put! Option Mini Co...
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ION Options – Blog. Never a More Perfect Time for Stock Replacement. Too Much Action Causing too Little Reaction. December 10, 2012. Among these stories are both bullish and bearish connotations.sometimes in the same story. With so much unsettled in these stories, so much uncertainty in both directions, is it possible that this potential market moving news tug of war will create a standoff.a draw? Will the pull of both sides cancel out any advantage of either direction? Feed for this Entry.
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February | 2012 | ION Options - Blog
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ION Options – Blog. Archive for February, 2012. The Wall Street Business Model………will it ever end? February 9, 2012. Painfully slow but ever so surely, investors are starting to become enlightened to and understanding of the Wall Street Business Model….don’t make money for your clients, make money off your clients! How could a small, independent research firm see the problem while much bigger, better connected firms and their analysts simply missed it? Back to ION Options]. Wall Street is Not Your Friend.
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August | 2012 | ION Options - Blog
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ION Options – Blog. Archive for August, 2012. Time is Coming to Walk the Walk! August 6, 2012. But Bernanke has been saying this for 6 months now as the economy has gotten worse in just about everyone’s opinion yet no action has taken place. To be honest, no action has been necessary because his threat of action has held and even boosted the market which in turn has boosted confidence to a point that Bernanke does not have to fight the fight (initiate QE3). Back to ION Options]. Blog at WordPress.com.
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July | 2012 | ION Options - Blog
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ION Options – Blog. Archive for July, 2012. European Crisis Meeting Reality. July 2, 2012. Indications are that the Euro Zone is heading toward a major, deep recession. Just today, France dramatically lowered its growth forecast ( http:/ finance.yahoo.com/news/france-lower-gdp-forecasts-2012-181211313.html. Back to ION Options]. Wall Street is Not Your Friend. Option Mini Contracts Debut. Too Much Action Causing too Little Reaction. Never a More Perfect Time for Stock Replacement. ION Options – Blog.