The following is a collection of podcasts and videos from the Options Clearing Corporation. The cover a lot of ground and new ones are occasionally added to their site. They are not as good as the coursework from MarketTamer,...
Read MoreToday’s tickers: INTC, SMH, AIG & EEM INTC-Shares of the tech-sector bellwether jumped more than 4.5% to $20.35 this morning after projecting higher sales estimates for the quarter. The world’s largest chip maker...
Read MoreThe Shanghai Composite fell 3% this morning. That drops them to 328, down from 398 on August first (-17.5%), which is almost a perfect 20% retrace off the run from the last consolidation at 250in March. As you can seefrom the...
Read MoreToday’s tickers: AIG, IMMU, XHB & NCS AIG- Investors displayed what can only be described as options-mania today as more than 411,000 contracts (and rising) were traded on the stock by lunchtime. Shares have exploded...
Read MoreDoes it matter if we have a good GDP and no jobs? That’s a question that will have to be considered today as the powers that be try to make a big deal of the fact that we are getting worse more slowly, even as the Q2 GDP...
Read MoreToday’s session looks to be ruled by what happens with the GDP and jobless claims data that will be coming out this morning at 8:30 AM. Going into it, investors are not appearing terribly optimistic with futures trading...
Read MoreToday’s tickers: ARNA, XLF, EEM, FXI, ARM, MAR & MYGN ARNA- The clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company received a downgrade to ‘sell’ at EVA Dimensions this morning, perhaps prompting bearish put buying...
Read MoreThis is getting very interesting! As we expected in yesterday’s morning post, the morning pump was a great selling opportunity and we had a very good time riding the gentle dip we got in intraday trading. The Dow hit...
Read MoreIt was with sadnessthat I began my daily routine of writing The Oxen Report. The great Democrat and the final surviving child of the nine children in the politically famedKennedy family, Ted Kennedy, died this morning at age 77...
Read MoreToday’s tickers: IVN, FDX, XLI, HGSI, FXI, VIP, XLP & NOK IVN- Shares of the international mineral exploration and development company surged 20% during the trading session to reach an intraday high of $10.66. The...
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