- Buckle (BKE) Up, Santa!
- Ho Ho Holigic (HOLX)
- How Safe is Brinks (CFL)?
- Genentech -- Not What It Used to Be
- Simpson Manufacturing (SSD) Coming Unhinged?
- A Doubler Over the Next Six Months?
- Is there gold in 'em hills? Gold Field Ltd. (GFI)
- Is Hansen Living on the Coke side of Life?
- A Line in the Beach Volleyball Sand? (SINA)
- 3 Cheers or Jeers for 3M?
- PetMed Express Getting Bitten
- Life Time Fitness (LTM) -- Any More Pounds to Shed?
- Leverage Works Two ways -- Liberty Media (LCAPA)
- Dell Looking to 'Shack' Up with Radioshack (RSH)?
- Tim Horton's (THI) Hitting the Grinder
- Investors Aquiring Chesapeake (CHK) Because of Acquisition?
- Yahoo (YHOO) Front-Month Calls Active
- Is this bunny running on empty? Energizer (ENR)
- Before You Eat Your CAKE, Consider Some Sweet and Sour Pork
- Debt, Asbestos and Saying Grace -- W.R. Grace and Co. (GRA)
- Cavium Networks (CAVM) Far from Caving
- Sell Calls Against Your Long-term Long Stock Positions
- Time for a Bounce? Liberty Media Interactive (LINTA)
- On the Down Low, Investors Step In -- Taiwan Semiconductor (TSM)
- Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) Getting Bit?
- Rising Wind -- Wind River Systems (WIND)
- Jabil (JBL) Set to Fly Like a Magpie
- Does BMC Software (BMC) Bounce?
- Where Have All The Family Dollars (FDO) Gone?
- Teen Time Out: Tween Brands, Quiksilver, Skechers
- Is Iron Mountain (IRM) on the Downslope?
- Petrohawk (HK) Soars on Oil Price Updraft
- Where Do You Put Your Money Now -- Gold?
- What's Cookin' at Career Education (CECO)?
- Can MKS Instruments (MKSI) Buck the Markets?
- Merrill Lynch (MER) Next In Line
- Hershey Co. (HSY) Is A Tease
- Smoking Gun at Webster Financial (WBS)?
- No Pain, No Gain: Pain Therapeutics (PTIE)
- Check Out Kroger (KR)
- Line 'Em Up – Merrill Lynch (MER)
- OfficeMax (OMX)
- High End Off the Deep End: Saks (SKS)
- Cleaning Up with Clorox (CLX)
- Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrland! (TBL)
- Playing Defense: Lockheed Martin (LMT)
- PMC Sierra (PMCS): Do You Remember $255?
- In The Flow: Integrated Device Tech. (IDTI)
- Micros (MCRS) Moving Toward Micro Stock Valuation?
- How Deep Will Government Spending Cuts Go? Ask Ceradyne (CRDN)
- Solar Sector Heating Up
- Is Someone Talkin' to Chuck (SCHW)?
- Sky's the Limit -- Skyworks Solutions (SWKS)
- NVIDIA's (NVDA) Tide Turning?
- Zimmer (ZMH) May Get Zapped
- How high can Beacon Roofing Supply (BECN) go?
- Better Times for Taiwan Semi (TSM)?
- Hershey Co. (HSY) Looks Sweet
- It's Good To Be King (KG)
- Deckers Outdoor Corp. (DECK) -- 'Ugg'!
- The Best Only Get Better -- Weyerhaeuser (WY)
- Takeout Candidate? -- WR Grace and Co. (GRA)
- Huge Call Volume -- EMC Corp. (EMC)
- Titanium Metals (TIE) Takes Private Speculation
- Making the Smart Bet -- Washington Mutual (WM)
- King for a Day -- Crown Castle (CCI)
- Head Fake -- Juniper Networks (JNPR)
- Finding a Good Deal -- Fred's Inc. (FRED)
- It's a Jungle Out There -- Amazon (AMZN)
- The Light Goes On -- Mirant Corp. (MIR)
- Diversified Internet Looking Better? -- IAC InterActiveCorp (IACI)
- Russian TV Getting Bad Ratings? -- CTC Media (CTCM)
- Rolling ... Rolling -- Kohl's Corp. (KSS)
- Jack be Quick -- Jack Henry (JKHY)
- MINI Getting Smaller -- Mobile Mini (MINI)
- Ingram Micro (IM) -- On a Roll
- Aquisition Rumors Send NVIDIA (NVDA) and Zoran (ZRAN) Soaring
- Let's Talk Turkey -- Tyson Foods (TSN)
- Confluence of Thought -- Short Expedia (EXPE)
- Put Buyers at These Levels?
- Coming to a Head -- Headwaters (HW)
- NetGear (NTGR) Going from Reverse to Forward?
- Batteries Better than Oil? - EnerSys (ENS)
- What Goes Up Must Come Down -- Ingram Micro (IM)
- How Low Can U.S. Bancorp (USB) Go?
- It's Time -- Time Warner Telecom (TWTC)
- Kicking Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) Through the Uprights
- Checking Out of Health Care REIT (HCN)?
- Going Down Smoothly -- Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE)
- Head North -- Northgate Minerals (NXG)
- Keeping Up with Pacer Int'l (PACR)
- Running the Other Way -- Plexus (PLXS)
- Max bullishness at Skyworks Solutions (SWKS)?
- What is a Fair Price for Fair Isaac (FIC)?
- Is the Writing on the Walls of AvalonBay (AVB)?
- We're Watching You -- McAfee (MFE)
- Ivanhoe Mines (IVN) -- On the Move Again
- A 'Long' Came a Takeover? -- Long Drugs (LDG)
- Digital River (DRIV) Running Faster
- To Have and Avnet (AVT)
- How Low Will It Go? -- KeyCorp (KEY)
- Tried and True -- Energen Corp. (EGN)
- Watch TIVO Closely
- Here We Go Again -- Expedia (EXPE)
- Insurance Buys on Unum Group (UNM)
- LSI Corp. (LSI) Climbing
- Has Energy Crescendoed? -- Plains Exploration & Production (PXP)
- Keep on Drinking -- Molson Coors Brewing (TAP)
- Party On, Bud -- Anheuser Busch (BUD)
- Follow the Migration to Frontier Oil (FTO)
- How High Will IO Go? -- Ion Geophysical (IO)
- Big Wheels Keep Rolling -- Titan Int'l (TWI)
- Nuts Over Health Net (HNT)
- Red alert at Heinz (HNZ)
- Exposing itself -- Emcore Corp. (EMKR)
- Is something cooking at Carpenter Tecnology (CRS)?
- Got Gas? -- Energen Corp. (EGN)
- TIBCO kid was a friend of mine -- Tibco Software (TIBX)
- 'Aruba, Jamaica, oooh I Wanna Take Ya' -- Aruba Networks (ARUN)
- Has the Bear Found Prudential (PRU)?
- Another Round -- Molson Coors Brewing (TAP)
- Life or Death -- Hill-Rom (HRC)
- Clouds in the Forecast for Pacific Sunwear? (PSUN)
- A Star is Born -- Starent Networks (STAR)
- This Bud's For Your Portfolio -- Anheuser-Busch (BUD)
- Rack 'Em Up -- Rackable Systems (RACK)
- Netease.com (NTES) May Please
- 'Sad' SAP AG (SAP)
- Bumps in the Road -- Rohm and Hass (ROH)
- Streaking with Bare Escentuals (BARE)
- A Slippery Slide: Carbo Ceramics (CRR)
- Is Southern Co. (SO) Going South?
- Feed Your Appetite for Fat Profits with General Mills (GIS)
- Moody? Who Needs It? -- Moody's Corp. (MCO)
- Insurance on insurance? RenaissanceRe Holdings (RNR)
- Is Papa John's (PZZA) Pie Overcooked?
- Ivanhoooooooe Mines (IVN) -- Here Come the Gold Prospectors Again
- The Beat Goes On -- St. Jude Medical (STJ)
- Let's Go Dutch, Not! -- ASML Holding (ASML)
- Plugging the Holes on the HMSY -- HMS Holdings (HMSY)
- The choice of this expiration cycle -- Pepsi (PEP) puts
- Bustin' Out -- Hercules (HPC)
- Harmonic (HLIT) hits a foul note
- A Measure of Control -- Johnson Controls (JCI)
- Leap to the Gold -- Ivanhoe Mines (IVN)
- Ice, Ice Baby -- Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
- A Bet Against Methanol -- Methanex Corp (MEOH)
- Is It Over Yet? -- Financials Up or Down
- Fly Higher Than an Eagle -- Petrohawk Energy (HK)
- Don't Be a Chicken -- Tyson Foods (TSN)
- Yahoooooooooo ... above $30 in a week?
- Coming in Hot: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide (HOT)
- Heads up! Fast and furious options trading at Citirx Systems (CTXS)
- Finding the Money: Where Are You Vis-á-vis Garmin (GRMN)
- When Options Investors Come Knockin', Network Appliance (NTAP) Starts Rockin'
- Fly Like an Eagle -- Petrohawk Energy (HK)
- Sweet or Sour? Time To Put A Fork In It -- Nuance Communications (NUAN)
- Unusual rumblings under an usually quiet giant -- Rohm & Haas (ROH)
- Is the Agere integration finally going to show something positive ... for LSI's stock?
- The Negotiator May Get Zapped -- Priceline.com (PCLN) Takes a Trip Down?
- Going Somewhere? Expedia (EXPE) Looks Like it is Going North
- Tearing it up on April Fools'? Altera Corp. (ALTR)
- Rent, Don't Own -- Apartment Investment & Management Co. (AIV)
- Trying to make sense of Websense (WBSN) option activity
- Apollo Group (APOL) Update
- Spring break? Things may be heating up in Tampa -- TECO Energy (TE)
- A poisoned arrow? -- Arrow Electronics (ARW)
- Show us the money, honey! -- Honeywell (HON)
- Let's Get Visual -- Nvidia Corp. (NVDA)
- What's on the Horizon for Sunrise (SRZ)?
- Dawn of the Living Dead -- Sunrise Senior Living (SRZ)
- Feeling Good, Looking Good -- Medco Health Solutions (MHS)
- 'We don't need no education' -- Another Brick is Falling off the Wall in Apollo Group (APOL)
- In-the-money Downward Pile-on in Open Text (OTEX)
- Big Money Rolling Down in Avnet (AVT)
- Dell Disappoints -- Yet Again
UNUSUAL TRADING ACTIVITY
Unusual Trading Activity 2008
- What's Hot: DELL, DHI November 20, 2009
- Sidewinder: MCD, DKS, JPM November 20, 2009
- Options News: SII November 20, 2009
- Sidewinder: CY, ADSK, KG November 19, 2009
- Options for Dummies November 19, 2009
Bryan Perry
6 Options Trading Mistakes to Avoid
Everyone likes to talk about their successes, but it's really the mistakes that teach us the most.
You don't have to buy the same number of contracts with every options trade you make, especially when trading the options of higher-dollar stocks.
3 Secrets of Successful Day Traders
What the pros know can help to keep regular traders from getting scammed.
This isn't our parents' stock market, thanks to the explosion of the derivatives markets during the past few decades that we can use to our advantage!
Avoid This Simple Mistake When Trading LEAPS
To keep from getting 'ticked' off when trading LEAPS, you need to know exactly what you're buying.
