May 21, 2012 Market Strategies Newsletter Options Trading and Where To Invest Your Money Now

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May 21, 2012 Where To Invest Your Money Now

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■ Currencies ■ Venture Capital ■ Gold

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New Trades for this week:

BUY 1 AMZN  JUNE  220 CALL @ $5.10

BUY 2 NFLX  JUNE   70 CALLS @ $4.40

The $10,000 Options Only account had a Gain last week of $328 increasing our gains for the year from $2,091 to $2,419.

Three positions remain:

The LNG June 15 Calls,

PRGO June 105 Calls and the

TLT June 120/122 Call Spread.

 

The Open positions are highlighted in the options table below. 

Approximately $ 1755 funds are in use.

This week was a steady and constant grind to the downside.  I was expecting to see the move halted near the measured move of my “BEAR FLAG” (SPY 130.14) and sold some puts a bit too early.  My work shows the 200 Day Moving Average supports the SPY around 127.75-128 and is deeply oversold. 

 

The balance in this account has been excellent.  While we took some small profits (and loses) we finished UP about 3% with the SPY DOWN 4%.  We are maintaining the balance by being long with PRGO and LNG and long a TLT spread…While these may appear all LONGS, the TLT generally acts opposite the market since the Treasuries which it represents are a safety play.  The spread has a maximum value of $2.00, and we paid only $ .68 to initiate, and its closing value on Friday was $1.35…  a double for us.

 

While all the news this week was generally bad, I expect to see a bounce in the SPY from either at or near the 200 day MA back to the 134 area.  We COULD see it carry to 135.50, but it will depend on both the news and the level of confidence in the Financials both here and in the EUROZONE…CAM

 

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Previous closed out trades not listed here may be seen in the March, February and January weekly newsletters. See past issues at http://www.princetonresearch.com/market-strategies-newsletter/

DATE

TRADE

PRICE

COST

PROCEEDS

RESULTS

5/18

Bought 8 LNG June 15 Calls

.75

600

5/18

Sold 2 ROK June 67 Puts

1.90

380

240 Gain

5/17

Sold 3 ROK June 67 Puts

2.00

600

390 Gain

5/17

Sold 5 SPY May 133 Puts

.87

435

55 Loss

5/17

Sold 5 SPY May 133 Puts

1.31

655

165 Gain

5/17

Sold 4 DD June 50 Calls

1.03

412

412 Loss

5/15

Bought 10 SPY May 133 Puts

.98

980

5/14

Bought 4 DD June 50 Calls

2.06

824

5/11

Sold 10  TLT June 122 Calls  (call spread )

1.00

(1000)

5/11

Bought 10 TLT June 120Call ( call Spreads)

1.68

1680

5/8

Bought 5 PRGO June 105 Calls

.95

475

5/7

Bought 5 ROK June 67 Puts

.70

350

New trades $ 10,000 account…In Texting we have a limited amount of words. In the interest of brevity: OPTIONS ONLY: 6 June, 7 July . 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

12369.38

  -451.22

-3.52%

Nasdaq

2778.79

-155.03

-5.28%

S&P 500

1295.22

-58.16

-4.30%

Transportation

4873.76

-266.94

-5.19%

Russell 2000

747.21

-42.85

-5.42%

Nasdaq 100

2478.53

-137.45

-5.25%

Gold

1591.90

 +7.90

+0.5%

Silver

2871.5

-17.5

   -0.61%

Crude

91.48

  -4.65

-4.84%

Heating Oil

283.00

-13.36

-4.51%

Unleaded Gas

2.8895

-.1113

-3.71%

Natural Gas

2.742
+0.233
+9.29%

VIX

25.10

+5.21

+26.2%

Put/Call Ratios

S&P 100

161/100’s

-5/100’s

   Put/Call Ratios    CBOE Equity             89/100’s           +1/100’s

Bonds

148-10 +3-06

2.79% -0.22%

10 Yr Note

133-26+0-236                                               1.70% -0.14%

Copper

346.85

-17.95

-4.92%

CRB Inflation

Index

290.43

-1.37

-0.47%

Barron’s Confidence

68.4.%

-0.4%

S&P100

591.61

-23.73

-3.86%

5 Yr Note

124-027 -0-015                                                   0.73% -0.02%

Dollar

  81.42

         +1.02

+1.27%

DJ Utilities

464.16

-7.85

-1.66%

AAII

Confidence

Index

Bullish

23.6

-1.8%

Bearish

46.0%

+3.9%

Neutral

30.5%

-2.5 %

M1 Money  Supply

+15.84% May7th

M-2 Money

Supply

+9.85%May7th

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 at $517.00

Last week we bought MTOR and SSNS and we were stopped on SNTS and FCH.

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)

MTOR   800

5.64

5/14/12

SSNS 2000

2.65

5/14/12

FCH 1000

4.68

5/11/12

4.17 sco

3.98 5/18

( 700 )

GMCR 200

25.93

5/9/12

21.93 sco

LULU 80

70.52

5/8/12

AAPL 5

578

4/20/12

FAZ 250

22.07

4/19/12

SIRI 2000

2.265

4/18/12

RWM 200

26.95

4/16/12

AAPL 10

612.01

4/13/12

CWTR 2500

1.16

4/2/12

.81 sco

IYT 60

92.48

3/29/12

AIVN* 10000
* 5000

.25
.225

3/12/12
3/12/12

.10 sco
.10 sco

SNTS 1000

4.80

3/12/12

6.17 sco

5.80 5/17/12

1000

XBOR* 2000

2.25

2/24/12

CISG 600

8.50

2/10/12

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  May 14 and newsletters dating back to July 20, 2009.  Stay alert on the free texting service for new trades and exits.

 

Model Portfolio Comments/Changes:

The week was governed by the HYPE from both sides in the Facebook offering.  Frankly, I can’t figure out what the big deal was as it related to the trading on Friday…All it said to me was that the bankers did a great job of pricing the deal. The fact that NASDAQ was not prepared or technically able to keep up with the quotes and executions from the start to finish is its own problem notable on the two year anniversary of the “Flash Crash”.  For that lapse, NDAQ shares were pared by over 4%….and rightly so.  You can’t expect people to trade at 11:30 AM and not get fills until 3:45PM.

The tech stocks rose and fell with FB and notably weak were AAPL, GOOG, and IBM.  As mentioned in the Options Only section, I will be looking for some buys near support.  The balance in this account is actually paying off to a greater extent than in Options Account. We have FAZ (3X reverse financials) with a gain of 30% and RWM (rev Russell 2000) with a gain of 10%.

Our TLT position in this account is also up 100%. Almost all of the economic news was a negative surprise and a look at our Market Lab spells that out.  We finished the week up a minor .5% and got stopped out of a couple of our smallcap positions.  These were stops that we’ve raised as the stocks rose or issues that broke support.  Political deadlock, yearend tax issues and the Eurozone will continue to be the wildcard for the markets.  Because the market is approaching an important area of support, we are going to concentrate on several small positions in stocks that have the potential to make meaningful moves up.  In this way we can control risk in real terms but realize good gains if we are correct.

CAM

INDEX OPTION RECOMMENDATIONS

 

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 2 AMZN JUNE  220  CALLS @ $5.10

BUY 4 NFLX june  70  CALLS @ $4.40

Option and Overall Comments

 

We had a Gain last week of $ 520 in a down week. Our gain for the year was $9,389.05 and with last week’s Gain has increased to $9,909.05. We have Five long options positions remaining, the LNG June 15 Calls, FAZ June 22 Puts, LULU June 65 Put, TLT June 120/122 Call Spread and the CSCO Jan 20 Calls. The Stock table includes Sixteen long stock positions: MTOR, SSNS, LULU, GMCR, FAZ, RWM, SIRI, AAPL (a double), TXGE, CWTR, IYT, AIVN, CISG, LEI, LEOM and XBOR (a double). FAZ and RWM are inverse ETF’s.

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 $3,139 in the five options positions and $ 86,832 in the 16 long stock positions for a total of $ 89,971 with $ 10,029 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

  • All options count for about $ 2,500.00 for model portfolio calculations unless otherwise stated.
  • When the option has doubled sell half the position.
  • Stop Loss protection is either half or offered with each trade.
  • The cost of the option is the asking price (or the price between the bid and ask, whichever is more realistic)
  • The options will be followed until closed out.
  • Option Symbols are stock symbol with expiration month and strike price
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Option

          COST

Date

Sold

 

Date

Profit/(Loss)

LNG June 15 15 Lots  Calls              .75

5/18/12

 

 

 

 

SPY May 133
20 Lots
Puts              .98

5/14/12

10 at 1.31
10 at .87

 

5/17/12

5/17/12

  $ 330 

  ( $ 110 )

TLT June 12020 Lots Calls             1.68

5/11/12

 

 

 

 

TLT June 122  s 20 lots Calls            1.00

5/11/12

 

 

 

 

FAZ  June 22
2 Lots
Puts             1.04

5/11/12

 

 

 

 

LULU June 65
1 lot
Put               2.06

5/8/12

 

 

 

 

CSCO Jan 20   3 lots Calls               .80

2/14/11

     

 

Note: Previous closed out stock and option positions can be found in the May 14 and newsletters dating back to July 20, 2009.                                                                                                    

 

This Weeks’ Economic Numbers and Media Data

 

Monday Investors will assess weekend G-8 and NATO comments along with domestic and overseas events.
Tuesday 10:00 hrs Existing Home Sales Apr ( 4.65M vs 4.48M )
Spain Auctions Bonds
Wednesday 07:00 hrs MBA Mortgage Index 05/19 ( NA vs 9.2% )
10;00 hrs New Home Sales Apr ( 340K vs 328K )
10:00 hrs FHFA Housing Price Index Mar  ( NA vs 0.3% )
10:30 hrs Crude Inventories 05/19 ( NA vs 2.128M )
Thursday 08:30 hrs Initial Claims 05/19 ( 365K vs 370K )
08:30 hrs Continuing Claims 05/12 ( 3250K vs 3265K )
08:30 hrs Durable Orders Apr (  0.3% vs -3.9% )
08:30 hrs Durable Orders-ex Transportation Apr ( 1.0% vs -1.3% )
 Friday 09:55 hrs Michigan Sentiment – Final May ( 77.5 vs 77.8 )

 

 

Fundamentals (previous letters may be seen at www.princetonresearch.com

 

The much anticipated Facebook release could not help a disastrous week in which all major indexes were down sharply. The Russell fell 5.42%; Nasdaq 5.28%; Transportation 5.19%; S&P 500 4.30% and the Dow 3.52%. All ten Dow Industrial Components were lower: Basic Materials led all losing groups with a 7.94% decline. Financials lost 6.76%; Technology 5.24%; Oil and Gas 4.93% Industrials fell 4.87%; Consumer services 4.42%; both Health Care and Consumer Goods 2.8%; Utilities 1.92%. Telecomm again was the leader falling 0.73%.

 

The worst kind of market is one that collapses without apparent reason. The markets do what they want and then ‘experts’ try to make explanations. We have had instability because of elections in Greece and France. I think after the G-8 Summit the markets will stabilize. The outlook is promising as they agreed on a mix of stimulation and debt reduction. In 2011 the entire European Union GDP totaled in excess of 17.5 trillion, tops in the world, while Greece did 303 billion, just 1.7%. Yet the small country of Greece with its unique socialist policies has been able to influence world politics.

 

2011 top 40 Nation’s GDP’s: EEU $ 17.5 Trillion; U.S. $ 15T; China 7.3T; Japan 5.9T; Germany 3.6T; France 2.8T; Brazil 2.5T; U.K. 2.4T; Italy 2.2T; Russia 1.9T; Canada 1.7T; India 1.7T; Spain 1.5T; Australia 1.5T; Mexico 1.2T; South Korea 1.1T;Indonesia 845B; Netherlands 840B; Turkey 788B; Switzerland 636B; Saudi Arabia 578B Sweden 538B; Poland 513B; Belgium 513B; Norway 484B; Iran 483B; Taiwan 466B; Argentina 419B South Africa 408B; UAE 360B; Thailand 346B; Denmark 333B; Colombia 328B Venezuela 316B; Greece 303B; Malaysia 278B; Finland 267B; Singapore 260B; Chile 248B  ( numbers rounded )

 

Economic Data

 

Economic numbers were quite reasonable, some outstanding which did not reflect the extent of the market’s malaise. The Empire Manufacturing Report at 17.1 was more than double the 8.4 expected and 6.6 last month. Housing starts came in buoyant at 717K vs 680K and 654K last month, which incidentally was revised higher to 699K. Industrial Production rose to +1.1% well above the consensus of +0.5% and the 0.0% reading in March, which incidentally was even revised lower to -0.6%. Capacity Utilization was impressive gaining ground to 79.2% compared to the consensus of 79.0 and just 78.4% in March. Motor vehicle production gained 3.9% and utility usage 4.5%. Mining production increased 1.6% after declining 1.7% in March.

 

The Philadelphia Fed report was a problem, very negative off 5.8 vs a plus 8.8 last month and caused immediate market deterioration. April Retail sales were up only 0.1% while 0.2% had been expected. Leading Economic Indicators fell 0.1% the first negative reading since last September. The consensus called for a 0.2% increase. Eight of the ten components are well known that make up the consensus.  Adjustments to building permits and jobless claims are the wild card. The contraction in LEI is not a sign of lasting weakness in the economic situation, but seasonal adjustment problems following the Easter Holiday involving Building permits which contributed a – 7.0% vs -2.3% and Initial Jobless claims -0.19 points, both small but which seasonal data will likely be reversed next month.

 

Technical Information

 

      Support Levels:   S&P 500           1274; 1268                 Resistance S&P 500   1310; 1322

                                        DOW            12,320; 12,175           Resistance DOW         12,530; 12,680

                                        QQQ             5945; 5855                 Resistance QQQ         6165; 6270                     

                                       Nasdaq          2716; 2672                 Resistance Nasdaq      2829; 2883                                          

 

CYCLES

 

    Cycles suggest a firmer tone early in the week and weakness towards end of week. 

 

 

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Princeton Research has received about $ 2,500 per month from Lucas ( LEI ) marked with an asterisk.    Princeton has been paid for investor relations in the past and has negotiated a contract to be paid 100,000 restricted shares from Leo Motors ( LEOM ). In addition Princeton has bought shares. Cross Border paid us 25,000 restricted shares several months ago. We do not currently represent Cross Border but we like the company. We own about 3,000 shares. Princeton has 2,281,578 shares of AIVN.

 

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