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    Conservative Options Trades

    Well ZBRA went down enough for me to close out with a profit. As for the rest of my portfolio this remarkable decline is not giving me much of a problem...yet. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=SPY+Interactive#{"range":"5y","allowChartStacking":true} I have enough of a bearish and bullish...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    Yep...closed at 89 so I'm out $130. :) Much more aggravating today is Delta Airlines. I have an early morning flight out of MYR and had to get seats assigned. It cost me $50 on top of my airfare to have a place to sit down. Did they think I was going to hang on a subway strap to Atlanta? They...
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    GREECE and the Euro

    The problem with Greece bringing back the drachma at this time is that no one will accept it. They would have to force the local population to accept a new Drachma and certainly no one internationally will accept drachmas to pay down debt... or for anything else. They could try to 'convert'...
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    Just theory or workable action plan?

    "The problem is if your dream stock fall overnight due to whatever bad news" Well, of course the same is true of owning a stock. If a disaster occurs usually you will be put at a price below what you would have paid had you bought the stock at the same time you sold the put. So that's actually...
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    GREECE and the Euro

    "they will eventually be owned lock stock and barrel by the Germans" Yes...Germany could have Greece as their own little vacation country in the south. The United States used to have such a thing in Cuba. Americans would go to Cuba and get a warm climate, beaches, gambling, prostitution and...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    ZBRA: (a trade for shorter attention spans) http://finance.yahoo.com/news/zebra-technologies-crumbles-weak-q2-144002201.html http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=ZBRA Trade: With ZBRA at 85.73 Aug 85/80 bear put spread for a net debit of $130 Yield = 370/130 = 284% in 10 days or a gazillion...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    BND: http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=BND+Interactive#{"range":"5y","allowChartStacking":true} Trade: With BND at 81.44 Mar 80/77 bull put spread for a net credit of $65 Yield = 65/235 = 27.7% in 232 days or 43.5% annualized Price.................. Profit / Loss........... ROM %...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    PCP: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/buffetts-berkshire-buy-precision-castparts-110745862.html http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockdetails/fi-126.1.PCP.NYS?symbol=PCP&form=PRFIEQ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-10/buffett-agrees-to-buy-precision-castparts-in-37-2-billion-deal...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    THOR: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/st-jude-medical-adds-more-113526461.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/thoratec-beats-q2-earnings-revenues-150503962.html http://finance.yahoo.com/news/st-jude-acquire-thoratec-3-205108164.html http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=thor Trade: With THOR at...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    TSLA: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/tesla-key-takeaways-from-earnings-cm506780 http://www.nasdaq.com/article/tesla-motors-inc-shares-fall-10-as-investors-question-its-ambitions-cm506083 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/09/us-teslamotors-cash-insight-idUSKCN0QE0DC20150809...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    NWN: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockdetails/fi-126.1.NWN.NYS?symbol=NWN&form=PRFIEQ http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NWN&t=2y&l=off&z=l&q=l&c=#{"range":"5y","allowChartStacking":true} Trade: with NWN at 43.78 DEC 40/35 bull put spread for a net credit of $35 Yield = 35/465 = 7.5% in 133...
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    Hiroshima

    https://www.google.com/search?q=hiroshima&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CIgBEIkeahUKEwiZopmysZTHAhWEoIAKHT44CfA&biw=1339&bih=921&dpr=0.95 The next time will be the last time.
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    Conservative Options Trades

    GMCR: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-05/keurig-green-mountain-cuts-its-forecast-after-pod-demand-slows?cmpid=yhoo http://finance.yahoo.com/news/keurig-plunges-3q-sales-says-205925659.html http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockdetails/fi-126.1.GMCR.NAS?symbol=GMCR&form=PRFIEQ...
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    GREECE and the Euro

    Bernanke speaks about 'European problem" and Germany's trade surplus. http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/ben-bernanke/posts/2015/07/17-greece-and-europe?rssid=Ben+Bernanke Krugman says Austerity is "madness" http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/20/whos-winning-on-greece-krugman-or-germany.html The...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    XOM: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tumbling-oil-prices-slam-profit-153251221.html http://finance.yahoo.com/video/brent-falls-below-50-first-012019872.html http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockdetails/fi-126.1.XOM.NYS?symbol=XOM&form=PRFIEQ http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=uso...
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    Conservative Options Trades

    CLX: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/clorox-jumps-cleaning-4th-quarter-171349850.html http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/stockdetails/fi-126.1.CLX.NYS?symbol=CLX&form=PRFIEQ http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=clx Trade: With CLX at 114.83 Jan 100/95 bull call spread for a net credit of $25 Yield =...
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    implied volatility vs time-to-maturity

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility_smile Note the 3 dimensional model. For short 210 put on spy: Exp................Vol Aug...............13.1 Sept..............15.5 Oct................14.2 Dec...............16.4 Jan '16..........15.7 Mar...............17.0 Jan '17..........18.5 Div in...
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    GREECE and the Euro

    Puerto Rico has defaulted: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/puerto-rico-no-money-available-234652392.html http://www.npr.org/2015/06/05/411710928/broke-and-barred-from-bankruptcy-puerto-rico-seeks-outside-cash...
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    Germany must be forced out of the Euro Monetary Union.

    hopeless bunch of mouths without brains.
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    Germany must be forced out of the Euro Monetary Union.

    What have you been watching...old Clint Eastwood movies?
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