Posts Tagged ‘ung’

• Will the VXX Ever Outperform?
  stevenplace, April 19th, 2010 at 11:01 am, Comments: 0

  The $VXX has become the butt of many investment jokes for the first half of 2010. It’s continued price drop in the face of a collapse in volatility has caused many “investors” to average in on their position, and it seems that whenever we see a slight uptick in the $VIX, there’s a huge hoopla [...]

• How to Trade Options on Leveraged ETFs
  stevenplace, December 14th, 2009 at 9:53 am, Comments: 0

  Before I start with how to trade Leveraged ETF options, let me remind you that I believe we are at the start of an etf creation bubble, in which retail investors are getting exposure to financial instruments that they don’t need– the capital base is not large enough to warrant that sort of exposure (Case [...]

• High Volume into a Stupid ETF
  stevenplace, November 4th, 2009 at 4:47 pm, Comments: 0

  A lot of attention going into UUP options and price action in the etf:

  Kind of reminds me of volume piling into another particular etf…

  The end result being:

  Am I expecting the same result? Nope. But UUP as an indicator of dollar strength, in my opinion, is not the best piece of evidence for that trade. And [...]

• How to Trade UNG Safely with Options
  stevenplace, September 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am, Comments: 0

  I’ve seen plenty of traders out there try to “nail the bottom” as it were on natural gas, through swing trading UNG. This was a tough trade, due to the countertrend nature of both the commodity and etf– and there were a lot of larger players in the Long Oil short Natty trade.

  So last week [...]

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  Midday Update for Jul 16th
  stevenplace, July 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am, Comments: 0

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• Results – Part 2
  stevenplace, July 6th, 2009 at 3:21 pm, Comments: 0

  In a continuation of last week’s call to transparency, I’m revealing 3 other trades that my subscribers and I entered back in early June. You can see all of our closed trades here, but I want to go into further detail about them.
  Trade #4 – FSLR
  This trade was based on the assumption that the support [...]

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  Subs: Trade for Monday Morning
  stevenplace, June 8th, 2009 at 9:56 am, Comments: 0

  As I mentioned on Stocktwits Brunch on Saturday Morning, the dollar strength could carry over into Monday and cause weakness in the equities market. The hedging strategy I mentioned in the previous video is doing well and I’ll continue to hold while getting positive delta on dips in particular names. One in particular I’ve been [...]

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  IWO Premium Video for June 4th, 2009
  stevenplace, June 4th, 2009 at 5:24 pm, Comments: 0

  Broken Butterflies and Condors Abound.