Today’s tickers: RRI, USO, GLD, MT, AEM, INTC, ESRX, C, KO & GEOY RRI – RRI Energy, Inc. – A large-volume call option combination play launched RRI Energy onto our ‘most active by options volume’ market scanner this...
Read MoreWheee – this is fun! Everything went according to plan yesterday as the very fake pre-market pump I warned you about in the morning post very quickly turned into a day of carnage for the markets. Sure we only ended up...
Read MoreToday’s tickers: UNH, F, EZCH, FBP, XOP, F, BMY, KFT, UNT, TIVO, ADBE & AMED UNH – UnitedHealth Group, Inc. – Bullish investors stampeded the health and well-being company in late afternoon trading with shares up 3%...
Read MoreToday’s tickers: CAT, MS, UUP, STI, WFC, MCO, M, ROK, BBY, JAVA & HMY CAT – Caterpillar, Inc. – Bearish option traders are bracing for potential CAT-share price erosion through expiration in February 2010. Shares...
Read MoreWells Fargo (WFC) is repaying their $25Bn TARP loan. That makes WFC the last of the big boys to be done with the emergency loan program, just one year after it started. At this point $161Bn of the $245Bn lent out will be repaid...
Read MoreToday’s tickers: AAPL, GLD, XLU, AEP, CI, CHK, XEL, OSK, LLL, JAVA & BSX AAPL – Apple, Inc. – A long-term bullish play on the iPod manufacturer suggests the price of the stock could skyrocket by July 2010. Apple’s...
Read MoreWhat a morning it’s been already! Last night, at about 11:30 EST, Abu Dhabi gave a $10Bn bailout to Dubai(until the end of April, anyway) with the following statement from Sheik Ahmed bin Saaed Al Maktoum, chairman of the Dubai...
Read MoreWell, we’ve been here before. Once again the market has staged a spectacular recovery on virtually no volume and mixed news. While we went into last weekend just a little bit bearish (about 55%), this Friday the market topped...
Read MoreAt the beginning proceed with caution – or – FOR GOD”S SAKE DON”T DO WHAT I DID! If you’re reading this article, understand that I’ve walked in your shoes. Like you I was a new member to Phil’s Stock World, arriving on the site...
Read MoreToday’s tickers: EWJ, RX, UUP, DRI, IMAX, SFD & AET EWJ – iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund – Shares of the Japan exchange-traded fund rose 0.3% today to $9.92. The roughly 125,000 contracts exchanged on the fund today is...
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