Category: Online Stock Trading Software

With the latest Hewlett Packard boardroom-spying episode, maybe Hewlett-Packard is finally ready to get back to business. Hopefully with some of the HPQ board members departing, Patricia Dunn, Tom Perkins, George Keyworth, etc., maybe the HPQ board can begin to cooperate with each other instead of playing politics.

In a previous article, “Stocks – Options & Trading Probability“, we discussed probability and stock options. PowerOptions‘ stock options search tool SmartSearchXL and stock options back testing tool SmartHistoryXL both display probability estimates for stock options positions and provide the capability to search based on probability criteria.

With Jim Cramer’s company, TheStreet.com (TSCM), now available for options trading, conservative investors with a high regard for Jim Cramer and his management skills can conservatively invest in his company through covered call investing.

The real estate market and the homebuilders in particular have been enjoying a big party over the last few years as a result of interest rates being at historic low levels. Low interest rates allow more buyers to purchase a home, thereby increasing demand and price.

With the U.S. Federal Reserve recently taking a pause in increasing short-term interest rates, a stock options strategy to consider for a future date is calendar calls spread stock options with positions in bond fund ETFs. We will consider longer-term bond fund ETFs, in particular we will consider the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (TLT).

Some long investors may still be licking their wounds from the pounding they received in May of 2006; the Nasdaq 100 was down over -7% and the S&P 500 was down over -3%. But May of 2006 didn’t have to be a bummer month.

We’ve analyzed Jim Cramer’s bullish stock tips in previous articles and found his performance isn’t so hot. But what if we combined Jim Cramer’s recommendations with one of the many covered call strategies available, particularly a high dividend yield covered call strategy?

In a previous article, we analyzed Jim Cramer’s bullish stock trading tips for shorting opportunities. Based on the analysis in the article a possible shorting opportunity has been discovered. On 7/19/2006 Jim Cramer recommended Motorola (MOT), the day immediately following his recommendation the price of MOT went higher and 10 market days later is still 16.8% higher than when Jim Cramer made his recommendation, ripe for a short. PowerOptions provides a search engine for finding potentially lucrative income producing opportunities, for example finding optimum bear call credit spreads on MOT. [tags]stock trading, bear call credit spreads[/tags]

In a previous article, we analyzed Jim Cramer’s bullish stock trading tips for shorting opportunities. Based on the analysis in the article a possible shorting opportunity has been discovered. On 7/13/06 Jim Cramer recommended Electronic Arts (ERTS), the day immediately following his recommendation the price of ERTS went higher and 10 market days later is still 9.8% higher than when Jim Cramer made his recommendation, ripe for a short. PowerOptions provides a search engine for finding potentially lucrative income producing opportunities, for example finding optimum bear-call credit spreads on ERTS. [tags]bear call credit spreads, stock trading[/tags]

In a couple of recent articles, Analyzing the Analysts – Buy, Hold Or Sell and Buy Stock Recommendations from Top Analysts we focused on examining groups of analysts, their performance record and their stock investing research recommendations.