Optioning Apple (AAPL) Calls

This is the second in a series of posts about Tony Parker’s option trades based on his prediction that the market has bottomed. His previous trade on QQQQ (Nasdaq Index) calls was quite profitable in a short period of time, but with volatility falling the return to risk ratio from …

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Health Care Plans: 10 Tips on Choosing the Right Option

It’s that time of the year again when your choice of health care insurance plans comes to the fore – Open Enrollment (OE). During OE you can change your health care coverage and flexible spending allowances for the year ahead without penalty or a qualifying “life-event”. With health insurance premiums …

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Home Price Declines Catching up Globally

I wrote a while back on how the US was leading home price declines earlier this year. Looks like the world has caught up to this unfortunate trend and pushed the relative US declines to the middle of the pack. As the most recent IMF economic report shows, the US …

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US Dollar Rising and Outlook For 2022 and 2023

Despite global economic woes and falling stock markets, a positive aspect for main street America has been the relatively rapid rise of the US dollar of late. While this lowers the cost of imported goods and services, it does hurt business that compete globally as the cost our exports rises. …

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Here comes the Next Round of Stimulus Payments

In further proof that the government is trying to spend it’s way out of the current financial crisis, the federal reserve chief – Ben Bernanke – signaled his support for a second round of fiscal stimulus’. The usual fear mongering lines of “dire consequences”, “grave doubts of our future” and …

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Google’s Earnings, Adsense and Credit Cards

Google’s AdSense program generates about 30% of the company’s total revenues and has been growing consistently over the last few years, despite all their search algorithm change and increase competition. So clearly this is a big and growing money earner for them. However one thing I have noticed is that …

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Dow falls below 5000!

Crazy headline or spot on prediction? Just trying to grab attention you may be thinking. However based on the recent rapid moves in the market, mainly to the downside, this headline may come to pass sooner than you think. I have a reasonable investment and retirement portfolio, so I hope …

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$1000 in 1 day on Nasdaq (QQQQ) call options

Tony Parker – a regular contributor and experienced investor – is calling the bottom of the market. To quote what Tony said late last week: “Either today (Friday) or Monday will signify the bottom for the stock market…time to buy, buy, buy…and make some money in the process”. He has …

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