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Using Covered Call Options to Increase the Value of Your Stock

Jul 5, 2009 | Stock Option Strategies

If you had a $1000.00 more today than you did yesterday, is your net worth +$1000.00 or does it depend where that cash came from (this is not one of my trick questions). What if you earned it at your job? Investment income? Found it on the street? Gift from grandma?...

Beware of Leveraged ETFs; The Changing Face of Exchange-Traded Funds

Jun 28, 2009 | Exchange-Traded Funds

How would you feel if your best friend and next door neighbor was metamorphasizing into a monster? A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde if you will. Could that be happening to our old friend, the Exchange Traded Fund? The historical definition of an ETF is a security that tracks...

Dark Pool Liquidity- Secrets of the Institutional Investors

May 24, 2009 | Investment Basics

What is the single most important factor in determining whether you should buy a particular stock? If you posed this question to a room full of investors you would get a myriad of different responses. The fundamentals. The technicals. The uniqueness of the product or...

Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Covered Call Writing

Apr 4, 2009 | Exchange-Traded Funds

Would you like a quick, easy, inexpensive and still safe way to invest with covered call writing? If so, why not consider using exchange traded funds? In chapter 14 of my first book, Cashing in on Covered Calls, I discuss diversification and dollar cost averaging as...

Reverse Stock Splits and How they Effect our Option Contracts

Mar 29, 2009 | Investment Basics

In a filing with the SEC last week, Citigroup said it is considering a reverse stock split as part of its effort to convert preferred shares (take priority over common shares on earnings and assets in the event of liquidation) to common shares. What is a reverse stock...
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