http://blog.poweropt.com PowerOptions offers you the convenience and control required to automatically sort, filter, and analyze all 2,800+ optionable stocks and 180,000+ options online to find investments to meet your profit goals. Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:27:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On Friday, February 26, 2010 an article in the "Making Money - Investors Corner" section of Investor's Business Daily (IBD) written by Paul Whitfield, caught my attention. The article was about breakaway gaps as a bullish form of action. Whitfield illustrated several examples where stocks with price surges ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2010/03/03/going-long-on-gap-ups-really/ Double Diagonal - Neutral Strategy The Double Diagonal is a neutral stock options strategy. The Double Diagonal strategy is similar to an Iron Condor and can be considered a combination of a Calendar Call spread and a Calendar Put spread. The Calendar Put spread portion of the Double Diagonal is entered ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2010/02/18/double-diagonal-stock-options-strategy/ Transocean Option Volume Transocean's (RIG) stock option volume was off-the-chart yesterday. Transocean is in the offshore oil and gas service business. Transocean operates deepwater rigs for drilling oil and gas wells. Transocean is the big dog in its market segment and its competitors include Noble (NE), Diamond Offshore (DO), Nabors ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2010/02/17/whats-up-with-transoceans-stock-options/ GDP... The U.S. GDP (Gross Domestic Product) was announced as 5.7% for the fourth quarter of 2009 and the stock market immediately celebrated the good news by jumping up and then back down. A GDP of 5.7% sounds real good, but in reality, the increase in the GDP was more a result ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2010/02/01/united-bankshares-short-squeeze-misc/ We've been getting quite lot of questions related to PowerOptionsApplied lately, so we're going to address some of them. Question #1: What does revised credit of .55 mean? Answer: The Iron Condor trades are posted with a net credit amount. This amount represents the total positive cash flow from entering the position. ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2010/01/22/answering-a-few-questions/ Option symbols are going away... That's right, stock options symbols as we've known them are going away. Beginning on February 12, 2010 the current option symbols will be replaced with new stock option symbols. The change is nothing to be scared about -- not nearly as scary as Dorothy's lions and ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2010/01/20/lions-and-tigers-and-no-option-symbols-oh-my/ Simple Tech's stock price and its stock option volumes have been very erratic over the last several months. Simple Tech's stock price took a significant hit in the middle of September and also around the first of November, but since the middle of December it's stock price been on ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2010/01/05/why-is-simple-techs-stock-price-so-complex/ There's been a lot of banter lately about health insurance and this article is NOT about health insurance, at least not the kind related to doctors, hospitals, Congress, etc. Individual or Group? We will examine whether it is better to insure stocks individually or as a group. In an article published ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2009/12/29/individual-insurance-or-group-insurance-better/ Fuel System's (FSYS) stock option volume was up yesterday while its stock was down almost 10%. If you're looking to purchase a car or convert a car to operate on natural gas, then Fuel Systems is for you. Fuel Systems provides components for alternative energy in the transportation segment. ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2009/12/11/fuel-systems-high-stock-option-volume/ Nobel Drilling's (NE) stock options volume is significantly up today and its stock price is down about 6%. Noble Drilling is in the business of providing drilling services for the oil and gas industry. Noble has over 60 offshore drilling rigs including semi-submersibles, drillships, jackups and submersibles. Noble's competitors include: Diamond ... http://blog.poweropt.com/2009/11/20/nobel-drillings-stock-options-volume-is-up/