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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 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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Finding Value and Sanity in an Insane Market

Jared Levy, Editor, Option Strategies Weekly Tuesday, 06 September 2011 I was so excited to finally publish Your Options Handbook earlier this year. It was the culmination of 17 years of listening and learning from both professional and retail investors distilled into 460 pages of some of the most important…
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Is Gold the New VIX?

Written by Jared Levy, Editor, Option Strategies Weekly Tuesday, 30 August 2011 09:58 Those of you who know me know that I love statistics and that I’m always looking for ANYTHING that gives me an “edge” or “early warning signal.” I use statistics to predicted major movements in the market.…
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Is America Dead?

  Jared Levy, Editor, Option Strategies Weekly Tuesday, 23 August 2011 My father and I had a long conversation the other day about his fears for the future of his pension, home and standard of living. He has spent almost 30 years working for the City of Philadelphia, climbing his…
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Guess Who Is Manipulating the Markets

Jared Levy, Editor, Option Strategies Weekly Friday, 12 August 2011 When we think of market manipulators, names like Bernie Madoff and Mike Milken come to mind. Or perhaps it’s Michael Douglas’ character Gordon Gekko from the 1987 classic Wall Street. These guys profited from exploiting investors, causing major losses in…
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The Truth Behind Jobs Report Numbers

Jared Levy, Editor, Option Strategies Weekly Tuesday, 02 August 2011   If you are a long-time reader of Smart Investing Daily, you know my predictions on the monthly Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs report are pretty accurate. The Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report is released on the first…
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