Year: 2011

Buy or Sell: IBM Reports Earnings Monday

Written by Jared Levy, Editor, Options Strategy Weekly IBM (IBM:NYSE) is one of the few tech companies that have been able to reinvent themselves. With the fast-paced evolution of technology, many of its early peers are long gone. IBM has a history of strong earnings growth, and the stock has…
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Use Earnings Season to Play the S&P 500

Written by Jared A Levy, Editor, Options Strategies Weekly It is a big week, with lots of stocks in play. Alcoa (AA:NYSE), JPMorgan (JPM:NYSE) and Google (GOOG:NASDAQ) are just a few of the companies that will kick off earnings season this week. To the average investor, earnings may seem like…
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The American Nightmare

Published on Friday, 07 October 2011 15:07 Written by Guest Editor, David Nelson, Smart Investing Daily Wall Street protestors aren’t just calling for change, they are “Taking It to the Streets.” An army of hundreds has quickly mushroomed into thousands with union reinforcements on the way. The list seems nearly…
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Special Delivery: A Job Killer Is at the Door

Jared Levy, Editor, Option Strategies Weekly Tuesday, 20 September 2011 Over the weekend, we held our annual investors survival summit in Las Vegas. Aside from the libations and excitement surrounding us, we focused on the world’s economies. But more specifically we looked at what’s ahead here at home. Employment and…
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The Most Unpredictable Market Event

  Written by Jared Levy, Editor, Option Strategies Weekly Friday, 16 September 2011 09:05 The Black Swan Theory describes unpredictable events of extraordinary magnitude. The meltdown of 2008/2009 would be a perfect example of a major Black Swan event. This theory, developed by Nassim Nicolas Taleb, describes a Black Swan…
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Three Steps to Rule the Market

Jared Levy, Editor, Option Strategies Weekly Tuesday, 13 September 2011 I had a birthday over the weekend and I was fortunate enough to have my father travel 1,200 miles to be here with me. We caught up on so much… We learned more about each other even after all these…
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