Posts Tagged ‘uso’

• What is the Crack Spread Chart Telling Us?
  stevenplace, May 6th, 2010 at 10:36 am, Comments: 0

  Imagine you ran a bakery. A cupcake bakery to be exact. How do you make money? It’s fairly simple:

  Buy Sugar, Flour, Eggs and other goodness
  Cook the cupcakes
  Sell cupcakes for a profit

  Pretty simple business, right? Well how can you increase your margins? You can try and keep the price low on your raw materials (sugar, flour) [...]

• Stocktwits Brunch, 4-24
  stevenplace, April 24th, 2010 at 1:52 pm, Comments: 0

• 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 [...]

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  4 Charts I’m Watching for a Market Turn
  stevenplace, October 8th, 2009 at 11:43 am, Comments: 0

  Everyone screaming overbought in this market has been proven wrong for the past few months. Anytime we get a large move up, the technicals correct through price rather than time. We’re starting to see some technical weakness via trend breaks and moving average crosses, but as seen from the past few weeks’ price action, we’ve [...]

• 2 Volatility Trackers You Should Be Watching
  stevenplace, August 31st, 2009 at 9:16 am, Comments: 0

  Over the past few years, the VIX has risen in popularity among investors. With the crash of 2008, investors and financial media became glued to the VIX chart, looking for mean reversion or other sets of tea leaves. Because of this exposure I’d say it’s safe to say it’s “Cramer-famous,” which is sort of like [...]

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  IWO Video for Week of 2-8-2009
  stevenplace, February 8th, 2009 at 5:13 pm, Comments: 0

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