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There are two main portfolios we keep track of at PSW. 

One is Optrader’s Swing Trading Portfolio, updated daily for active traders and market timers using Optrader’s exclusive system that stresses risk management with pre-defined entry and exit points.  This is backed up by Oprader’s daily chat section where he discusses the trades with members and exchanges ideas on new ones as they develop.  Both Phil and Optrader are available most days to chat with Premium members live and Basic members can view many of the comments and also post comments at certain hours.  Phil tracks different things at different times of the year.  Since October Phil has maintained a Buy List, filled with many stocks he considers good long-term values for a market bottom, with trade ideas associated with each one that are designed for less active trading, allowing for hedged entries to ride out the swings in the market while skipping the ulcers and collecting good monthly premiums and dividends.  During daily chat sessions, Phil also puts up many new trade ideas and is always happy to design ones for companies members are interested in.  For Premium members, Peter has an expertise in strangles and straddles, hedged trade ideas that work in almost any market. 

Many of these trade ideas are sent to Premium members (at the members request) free of charge via Email and can be picked up on most mobile devices.  Basic members can subscribe to alerts for an additional fee as well, choosing either Oprtader or Phil’s alerts. 

 

Phil's Favorites

Greece risks financial Armageddon while Ireland makes cuts

December 13th, 2009 10:07 pm

Greece risks financial Armageddon while Ireland makes cuts

Courtesy of Edward Harrison at Credit Writedowns

The Irish government announced draconian spending cuts of 6 billion Euros in order to stave off a debt crisis in the worst modern-day downturn in the nation’s history.  Even so, Irish government bond yields have been rising relative to German government bond yields, the benchmark for the Eurozone.  Over the past five years the spread had averaged about 40bps. Now it is 170b...



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Zero Hedge

Guest Post: Gossip From The Wall Street Journal's Future Of Finance Initiative

December 14th, 2009 11:58 am

Courtesy of Tyler Durden

Submitted by Janet Tavakoli, via Huffington Post

Last week I was a participant in the Wall Street Journal's Future of Finance Initiative in England. WSJ has written a summary of the conference highlights, and missed some key points. Allow me to fill in the blanks.

Paul Volcker, former Fed Chairman and current Chair of the President's Economic Advisory Board, made the most worthwhile comments. Moral hazard was not discussed in the open forums, so Volcker reminded the assembly...



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Chart School

On the Value in Housing

December 13th, 2009 9:10 am

On the Value in Housing

Courtesy of Jake at Econompic Data  

Felix Salmon recently made the case in his post Against Liquidity:

Investing shouldn’t be about safety: it should be about calculated risk.

and...

Liquidity is not ever and always a good thing.

And I completely agree. But both of those points seem to be in conflict with a more recent post of his more from Chart School

Trading Goddess

Natural Gas Stocks: Hot Air or Hot Air Rising?

March 18th, 2010 2:53pm


Yes, we've had some bad weather in the East. But with the ending of Winter and the onslaught of Spring, natural gas futures fell to their lowest level in about four years. If you look at a chart of natural gas, you will notice that since July of 2008, gas has been in a constant downtrend. However, the natural gas stocks, utilities, and publicly traded limited partnerships have been bouncing all over the place during the last couple years.

Income investors like natural gas stocks for several reasons. First, they pay a decent dividend with over 15 paying more than 4%. Second, they provide diversification from electric utilities. The average price to earnings ratio for all these stocks is less than 15. And in terms of gas stocks, in addition to natural gas companies, investors can...

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Oxen Group Trades

The Oxen Report: Jobless Claims and Trade Balance to Direct Market Movement

December 10th, 2009 1:04 am

Hey all. I apologize for missing yesterday. We are back on today. Tuesday was a semi-okay day. We continued our short sale of AMD, which we got stopped out on for a 3% loss at 6.65. The sto...



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The Options Report

By Andrew Wilkinson


Japanese ETF Options Active (After Philstockworld's Thursday Pick)

December 11th, 2009 5:29 pm

Today’s tickers: EWJ, RX, UUP, DRI, IMAX, SFD & AET

EWJ - iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund – Shares of the Japan exchange-traded fund rose 0.3% today to $9.92. The roughly 125,000 contracts exchanged on the fund today is likely the work of one investor adjusting previously established positions. The trader may be unraveling a portion of a bearish risk reversal established back in late-September. It appears 62,500 puts were sold at the March 10 strike for 53 cents apiece, spread against the purchase of the same number of calls at the January 2011 12 strike for 24 cents premium each. The technically bullish direction of the risk reversal play is possibly a closing transaction given the large levels of existing open interest at each strike described above.

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Insider Zone


INSIDERS REMAIN DOUBTFUL OF THE RALLY

December 9th, 2009 4:51 pm

INSIDERS REMAIN DOUBTFUL OF THE RALLY

Courtesy of The Pragmatic Capitalist

Few things have been more confounding over the course of the 60% rally than the lack of insider conviction with regards to purchasing their own stocks.  The latest data on insider selling and buying continues to show alarmingly low levels of buying accompanied by very high levels of selling.  As we continue to see the very weak rebound in revenues and non-existent hiring it has become more and more clear why insiders lack conviction in their own shares – after all, without a rebound in hiring and organic revenue growth ...


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OpTrader


Swing trading portfolio - week of December 14th, 2009

December 14th, 2009 10:12 am

This post is for live trades and daily comments. 

To learn more about the swing trading portfolio (strategy, membership etc.), please click here

- Optrader

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Philip R. Davis is a founder Phil's Stock World, a stock and options trading site that teaches the art of options trading to newcomers and devises advanced strategies for expert traders...

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