Amazon.com Reports First Net Loss In Nine Years, So Buy the Stock Of Course!

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on October 29, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) “If Amazon were an ordinary company, investors would long ago have strapped its management to a rocket ship and sent it far, far away.” From “Amazon and Its Admirers Shrug Off … Read more

T2108 Update (November 9, 2012) – Oversold Enough?

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades … Read more

T2108 Update (November 7, 2012) – Stocks Break Down As the Dollar Takes the Sidelines

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are highly likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades … Read more

Lessons Learned As Apple Earnings Deliver Dream for Options Sellers

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on October 26, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) After Apple (AAPL) re-opened for after-hours, post-earnings trading, I could tell the reaction would be mild when the stock barely dropped below $600 and immediately bounced. {snip} Regardless, anywhere around current … Read more

Lessons Learned From Earnings Trades For Google and Chipotle

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on October 22, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} Google (GOOG) GOOG was a stock that had a lot of momentum off the summer lows although it still trailed the NASDAQ (QQQ) year-to-date. Ironically, GOOG finally caught up to … Read more