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A Publication of Princeton Research, Inc. (www.PrincetonResearch.com)
Contributing Staff: Michael King, Bill Chippas, Charles Moskowitz
June 11, 2012
Market Strategies Newsletter
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Options Trading Strategies
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Options Trading Strategies
$10,000 Options Trading Portfolio
New Options Trades for this week:
Buy 10 TBT July 17 Calls @ Market
Buy 6 IWM July 80 Calls @ $1.40 or better
Buy 6 AIG July 32 CALLS @ Market
The $10,000 Options Only account had a Gain last week of $220, increasing our gains for the year from $3,182 to $3,402.
Three positions remain:
The BAC warrants,
MCD July 87.5 Calls and the
SLV July 29 Calls.
The Open positions are highlighted in the options table below.
Approximately $ 2110 funds are in use.
The good news was that this week had some big moves to the upside. The lesser good news was that we ran up right to the 25 day moving averages on the S.& P. 500 at 1325 and the DJIA @ 12,555. The other good news was that after breaking the 200 day MA (DJIA) last Friday we didn’t go any lower, and the S. & P. never closed below this important point.
These points are important if for no other reason than everyone references them.
From my prospective we also confirmed some areas for support and resistance.
The action in many stocks has been highly constructive. BAC after moving higher from the lows of mid-May did not break on the 275-point downdraft and closed above both the 25 and 200-day averages. IBM bounced off the 200-day and recovered to close over $8.00 higher.
We came into Friday concerned about the 25-day moving average and looked for defensive issues ending up buying MCD at the open after it reported weaker same store growth…..not down, just not as expected. We paid $1.51 for July $87.50 calls ($ .01 off the low) and watched as the stock rallied from down over $2.60 to close down just $ .63…The calls closed at $2.20.
The weekend news that Spanish banks are getting $100 billion Euros will send the markets higher. We are adding TBT calls and IWM calls in slightly smaller size to participate.
The market is still “oversold” and still faces headline risk, but our balanced approach yielded gains in both directions, as the market moved on Euro news and the Senate questioning of Mr. Bernanke. This is the reason why traders need to sign up for the FREE texting service to take advantage of our hard work….CAM
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DATE |
TRADE |
PRICE |
COST |
PROCEEDS |
RESULTS |
6/8 |
Bought 5 MCD July 87.50 Calls |
1.51 |
755 |
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6/8 |
Bought 10 SLV July 29 Calls |
.65 |
650 |
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6/8 |
Sold 10 XLF June 14 Puts |
.32 |
320 |
70 Gain |
|
6/7 |
Bought 10 XLF June 14 Puts |
.25 |
250 |
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6/6 |
Sold 10 SLV July 29 Calls |
1.16 |
1160 |
360 Gain |
|
6/5 |
Bought 10 SLV July 29 Calls |
.80 |
800 |
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6/4 |
Sold 6 FB June 30 Calls |
.35 |
210 |
210 Loss |
|
6/1 |
Bought 6 FB June 30 Calls |
.70 |
420 |
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5/23 |
Bought 1000 BAC.WS.B |
.705 |
705 |
New trades $ 10,000 account…In Texting we have a limited amount of words. In the interest of brevity: OPTIONS ONLY: 7 July, 8 August . The Quantity and Strike Price for each trade is specific.
For any questions please call 702 650 3000
Market Laboratory – Weekly Changes
Prices are copied from Barron’s Weekly and Yahoo Finance and may be incorrect
Dow 12554.20 +435.63 +3.59% |
Nasdaq 2858.42 +110.94 +4.04% |
S&P 500 1325.86 +47.62 +3.73% |
Transportation 5062.05 +150.18 +3.06% |
Russell 2000 769.19 +31.77 +4.31% |
Nasdaq 100 2559.21 +100.38 +4.08% |
Gold 1591.40 -30.70 -1.89% |
Silver 2847.1 -4.1 -0.01% |
Crude 84.10 +0.87 +1.0% |
Heating Oil 267.21 +4.42 +1.7% |
Unleaded Gas 2.6852 +.0284 +1.1% |
Natural Gas 2.299 |
VIX 21.23 -5.43 -20.4% |
Put/Call Ratios S&P 100 127/100’s -21/100’s |
Put/Call Ratios CBOE Equity 71/100’s -5/100’s |
M1…all money in hands of the public, Time Deposits Traveler’s Checks, Demand Deposits
M2 adds Savings and Money market Accounts both compared with the previous year.
New Stock Recommendations
BUY 5 AAPL @ MARKET.
Last week we TEXTS Alerts we Bought AGQ, MFST and Sold MTOR, IYT, MSFT and AGQ.
Each stock is allocated a theoretical $ 5,000 share of the portfolio unless otherwise indicated.
Stock |
Purchase Price |
Purchase Date |
Stop/Loss |
|
Price/Date Sold |
|
Profit/(Loss) |
AGQ 100 |
40.55 |
6/8/12 |
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MFST 150 |
28.57 |
6/5/12 |
29.42 6/7/12 |
127.50 |
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RCII 150 |
34 |
5/29/12 |
32.38sco |
34.91 6/7/12 |
136.50 |
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BAC.WS.B 5000 |
.705 |
5/23/12 |
|||||
AGQ 100 |
39.00 |
5/23/12 |
43.94 6/6/12 |
494 |
|||
MTOR 800 |
5.64 |
5/14/12 |
4.90 stop |
5.57 6/6/12 |
( 56 ) |
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SNSS 2000 |
2.65 |
5/14/12 |
2.40 stop |
||||
AAPL 5 |
578 |
4/20/12 |
516.20stop |
||||
SIRI 2000 |
2.265 |
4/18/12 |
1.78 stop |
||||
AAPL 10 |
612.01 |
4/13/12 |
516.20stop |
||||
TXGE*20830 | .24 | 4/9/12 | |||||
IYT 60 |
92.48 |
3/29/12 |
85.02 stop |
89.55 6/8/12 |
( 175 ) |
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AIVN* 10000 * 5000 |
.25 |
3/12/12 |
.10 sco |
||||
XBOR* 2000 |
2.25 |
2/24/12 |
1.50sco |
||||
CISG 600 |
8.50 |
2/10/12 |
5.69 sco |
||||
XBOR*3570 |
1.40 |
8/12/11 |
0.70 sco |
||||
LEI* 2425 |
2.06 |
8/10/11 |
1.03x |
||||
LEOM*16650 |
0.30 |
12/17/10 |
0.03 sco |
Note: Previous closed out stock and option positions can be found in the June 4 and newsletters dating back to July 20, 2009. Stay alert on the free texting service for new trades and exits.
Model Portfolio Comments/Changes:
As noted on page one, this was an exciting and profitable week. While we didn’t get much horizontal activity the market was marked by definite areas of support and resistance. We are still the tail (EURO news and political considerations) wagging the dog. China growth was not as great as expected and our Balance of Trade numbers were of little import. Oil continued weak and the metals had dramatically volatile action. We are still confined to the 1295 (S. & P. 500) lows and 1335 highs.
Political considerations were in the forefront with the Wisconsin Recall and the continuing comments by party members that conflicted with the Obama attacks on Romney’s Bain Capital history all as the coming Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare. These are issues produce more bluster than substance. Many of the big names, big cap stocks look ready to move higher. AAPL looks ready to test the minor resistance around 620 on its way to test the highs near 645. AMZN seems to have worked of its explosive move on the earnings report in April (it gapped up over $30). Even on its pullback with the market selloff in May AMZN only came back to $206.
It remains above the 200 day MA and is still slightly oversold. The only issue for me today is the still somewhat elevated VIX /VXX levels and the fact that the reverse Russell (RWM), FAZ, and DXD have all broken out and pulled back to support. This makes me somewhat wary of the sustainability of the rally….CAM
INDEX OPTION RECOMMENDATIONS
Buy 20 TBT July 17 Calls @ market
Buy 12 IWM July 80 Calls @ $1.40 or better
For those of you who do not buy puts to protect your portfolio, there are many ETF’s that are the inverse of the DOW. The symbols are DOG, SDS and RWM, whichgo up when the DOW, S&P 500 and Russell 2000 go down and down when they go up. The DZZ goes up double when gold goes down.
New Stock Option Recommendations
Buy 12 AIG July 32 CALLS @ Market
Option and overall Comments
We had a Gain last week of $ 927 in an Up week. Our gain for the year was $12,215.85 and with last week’s gain has increased to $13,142.85. We have Four long options positions remaining, the MCD July 87.5 Calls, SLV July 29 Calls, FAZ June 22 Puts, CSCO Jan 20 Calls. The Stock table includes Eleven long stock positions: AGQ, SNSS, SIRI, AAPL (a double), TXGE, AIVN, CISG, LEI, LEOM, XBOR (a double) and BAC warrants. The AGQ is a double long silver ETF.
The options call for a $ 2,500 investment unless otherwise started, while each stock position requires $ 5,000 unless specifically stated.
We are basing money management on a hypothetical $ 100,000.00 and are using $3,258 in the four options positions and $ 59,575 in the 11 long stock positions for a total of $ 62,833 with $ 37,167 in cash. These figures are approximate. We do not count commission costs and there may be errors.
Executions that have occurred at or near the open or close of trading sometimes vary from our actual numbers. For example, when something opens down and it is through our price, we take the next trade whether it is an uptick or continues lower. This sometimes results in a 50% trade that is slightly above or below the exact number…
Previous Week’s Recommendations and
Rules for the $ 100,000 account
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- All options count for about $ 2,500.00 for model portfolio calculations unless otherwise stated.
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- The options will be followed until closed out.
- Option Symbols are stock symbol with expiration month and strike price
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Note: Previous closed out stock and option positions can be found in the June 04 and newsletters dating back to July 20, 2009.
This Weeks’ Economic Numbers and Media Data
Monday | Investors will assess domestic and overseas weekend comments. IMF issues a report on Spanish Banks. Best Buy (BBY) Earnings. |
Tuesday | 08:30 hrs Export Prices ex-ag. May (NA vs 0.2% ) 08:30 hrs Import Prices ex-oil May ( NA vs 0.1% ) |
Wednesday | Italy and Germany auction Bonds |
07:00 hrs MBA Mortgage Index 06/09 ( NA vs 1.3% )
08:30 hrs Retail Sales May ( -0.2% vs 0.1% )
08:30 hrs Retail Sales ex-auto May ( 0.0% vs 0.1% )
08:30 hrs PPI May ( -0.7% vs -0.2% )
08:30 hrs Core PPI May ( 0.2% vs 0.2% )
10:00 hrs Business Inventories Apr ( 0.2% vs 0.3% )
10:30 hrs Crude Inventories 06/09 ( NA vs -0.111M )Thursday08:30 hrs Initial Claims 06/09 ( 375K vs 377K )
08:30 hrs Continuing Claims 06/02 ( 3275K vs 3293K )
08:30 hrs CPI May ( -0.2% vs 0.0% )
08:30 hrs Core CPI May ( 0.1% vs 0.2% )
08:30 hrs Current Account Balance Q1 ( -$130.9B vs -$124.1B ) FridayBank of Japan meets, no change in rates is expected.
08:30 hrs Empire Manufacturing Jun ( 13.5 vs 17.1 )
09:00 hrs Net Long-Term TIC Flows Apr ( NA vs $36.2B )
09:15 hrs Industrial Production May ( 0.1% vs 1.1% )
09:15 hrs Capacity Utilization May ( 79.1% vs 79.2% )
09:55 hrs Mich Sentiment Jun ( 77.0 vs 79.3)
Investors will assess upcoming weekend events and Greek Elections on Sunday.
Fundamentals
All 10 Dow Industrial Indicators were higher led by Financials gaining 4.44%.
Technology rose 4.21 %; Oil and Gas reversed their losing ways up 4.0%.
Basic Materials added 3.88% and Consumer Services added 3.74%;
Industrials 3.66%; Health Care 3.03%;
Telecomm and Utilities 2.88% and
Consumer Goods 2.56%.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker did more for the markets with his huge victory fighting against the collective bargaining rights of unions. Walker was able to make the case that years of corrupt union-politician back-scratching had been bankrupting the state.
Financials proved to be a source of strength. The sector ascended from an early loss to a 1.2% gain with help from bank stocks, which collectively climbed 1.6%, based on the KBW Bank Index. Tech contributed to the effort by trading up to a 0.9% gain. For the week Financials advanced 4.4%, while Tech advanced a little more than 4.2%.
The markets benefitted from a weaker dollar which declined 1% to close out the week at 82.05. All this while the M1 percent increase year-to-year also declined below 14% which has been consistent with the Fed on a course of taking back some excess liquidity.
Europe’s leaders will convene this weekend to address Spain’s struggling banking system.
The weekend also brings some price data from China.
Economic Data
It was a light week for some lackluster economic reports. The Trade Balance fell slightly to -$ 50.1 billions for April an improvement from the March Report at -$ 52.6 billions. The negative numbers detract from GDP but with the lower oil price could even do much better next month upon the release of the May numbers April exports fell $1.5 billions to $182.9 billions, while imports declined $4.1 billions to $233.0 b. The drop in exports was primarily driven by a $0.8 bln decline in civilian aircraft and aircraft engines and a $ 0.4 bln drop in chemical exports. April exports fell $1.5 bln to $182.9 bln while imports declined $4.1 bln to $233.0 bln.
Factory orders fell 0.6% in April after declining 2.1% in March. Productivity for the first quarter declined 0.9% down from 0.5% in the advance release last month due to a downward revision to output. As a result unit labor costs were revised down from 2.0% to 1.3%. The consensus had expected unit labor costs to be increased by 2.3%. Hourly compensation fell 2% from fourth quarter levels.
Initial Unemployment Claims were 377K about in line with 375K expected.
The Fed’s beige book was quite positive giving reasons why it is unlikely for a QE3. In fact, the Fed’s survey of its 12 banking regions, covering the period from early April to late May, paints a surprisingly upbeat picture of a U.S. economy continuing to improve at a moderate pace. Manufacturing in most areas is seen as expanding nicely, travel and tourism are strengthening, and the long-depressed housing market is showing more signs of recovery.
Technical Information
Support Levels:
S&P 500 1310; 1304
Resistance S&P 500 1334; 1346
DOW 12,445; 12,320
Resistance DOW 12,680; 12,740
QQQ 6257; 6165
Resistance QQQ 6350 6417
Nasdaq 2820; 2775
Resistance Nasdaq 2883; 2937
CYCLES
The AAII Confidence index declined again to 27.5.. When below 30%, it is bullish, a clear sign that everyone is bearish. So if you are going to stand on the same side of the boat as everyone else expecting just another modest correction, you may want to put on a life preserver. Should this pattern run its course, as it has in the previous two years, the correction that is widely expected could manifest itself into new highs unexpected.
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