You can also write call options
on stock positions you already own to generate income and reduce downside risks.
If you're earning an average of 10 % per year in your stock portfolio, but paying 12 % per year in interest on your credit cards, you are losing money — even though you seem to be making a higher return
on your stock positions.
The bigger the loss
on the stock position, the more likely it is that attaining the options will cost you money (like above).
When the market crashes, you will lose money
on your stock position.
Avoiding these stocks will increase portfolio value and save to effort of putting a stop loss
on each stock position.
Writing (selling) a covered call is a more conservative strategy and is a way of generating income
on a stock position owned by the investor.
Stock below the break - even point If ZYX is trading at 34 at expiration, the unexercised LEAPS ® calls would generally expire worthless and the unassigned covered call writer would have a theoretical loss of $ 1,125 (a present theoretical loss of $ 2,750
on the stock position less the $ 1,625 premium received).
For example, if Pepsi's stock price fell to $ 90, the loss
on the stock position ($ 105 — $ 90.00 = $ 15) would surpass the sum of the dividends and call sale proceeds ($ 0.61 + $ 1.56).
You see an instant $ 1,000 gain
on your stock position.
A common strategy is to double up
on a stock position with the advanced knowledge that the investor will sell the lot or shares that have a loss and hold the others to maintain exposure in the investment.
Not exact matches
Likewise, some traders hold
on to losing
positions for an extended time in hopes the
stock will recover.
«As we enter 2014 with a much cleaner inventory
position, the team's number one operation focus is
on in -
stocks — ensuring we have the right quantity of each item in the right place at the right time,» Steinhafel said
on the earnings call.
In the U.S., the company prides itself
on its development programs for even junior
positions like business analysts, who help co-ordinate the flow of product, and merchandising assistants, who work with buyers to choose which products to
stock and negotiate costs with vendors.
As the news flow turns negative, they pile
on to the point where the short
position in Bombardier's
stock is frequently in the top 10
on the TSX.
Analysts say Match.com is best
positioned to capitalize
on the surge, so much so that Topeka has increased the value of the company's
stock to $ 98 from $ 78 and recommends investors purchase shares of IAC in anticipation of a Match.com spinoff.
The «Fast Money Halftime Report» traders take their
positions on four
stocks making news today, including Deere, Target and more.
«Clarity
on the Cambridge issue and FB's willingness to self - regulate are likely near - term catalysts that may reduce investor fears, stabilize the
stock, and
position it for a recovery into Q1 results,» Shawn Quigg, an equity derivatives strategist at JPMorgan, wrote in a client note.
Short - seller Jim Chanos told CNBC
on Thursday that he's taken
positions against health - care
stocks Envision Healthcare and Mednax.
MORE SHOES TO DROP: The
stock slump led to a massive unwinding of a short
position in products related to the VIX volatility index, as Credit Suisse and Nomura announced the shuttering of their respective exchange - traded notes that bet
on lower volatility.
LONDON, Feb 6 - Gold prices slipped
on Tuesday, weighed down by a firmer dollar and as some investors were squeezed by falling
stocks and cashed in long
positions in bullion.
Still, it's easy to see how a combination of factors could induce unsavoury market participants to «short and distort»
stocks — that is, to take short
positions, then spread misleading information to capitalize
on investors» fear and profit from the
stock's resulting decline, to the detriment of the issuing company and the broader market's integrity.
The company, which has approximately $ 30 billion in debt, saw its
stock drop to all - time lows as it dipped under $ 11 per share
on Tuesday after news emerged that Ackman and his hedgefunder were selling their entire
position of approximately 27 million shares.
It's the largest hedge ETF, with $ 1.1 billion in assets; it melds numerous strategies that include taking both long and short
positions on U.S.
stocks and bonds and emerging markets.
The family in question may have not just a strong
position in terms of the
stock it holds; they may also bear the name that's emblazoned
on the company letterhead.
Arbitragers are retrenching in the wake of suffering losses
on the NXP deal and are reducing the size of their
positions, which is putting pressure
on various arb
stocks.
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stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on inv
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Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return
on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash
position, return
on assets or net assets, return
on capital, return
on invested
Important Disclaimer: Please do your own research when investing in
stocks and don't follow my advice because my portfolio
positions are changing
on an almost daily basis.
On a different note, all 7 open
positions in our model portfolio of The Wagner Daily (3 ETFs and 4
stocks) are presently showing unrealized gains, and are technically well
positioned to climb higher in the coming days.
The Compensation Committee believes that options to purchase shares of our common
stock, with an exercise price equal to the market price of our common
stock on the date of grant, are inherently performance - based and are a very effective tool to motivate our executives to build stockholder value and reinforce our
position as a growth company.
While modest wage inflation bodes well for the Japanese
stock market
on average, the sectors best
positioned to benefit are those in which wages as a percentage of revenue are low, typically in the single to low - double digits.
BLK takes a long
position on stocks it thinks will appreciate, and short
positions on equities it expects to lose value.
Tesco (TSCO.L), whose
position as UK leader in terms of market share would be overtaken by the new merged group, tumbled 2.5 percent
on the news, weighing retail
stocks down.
Under the Bonus Plan, our compensation committee, in its sole discretion, determines the performance goals applicable to awards, which goals may include, without limitation: attainment of research and development milestones, sales bookings, business divestitures and acquisitions, cash flow, cash
position, earnings (which may include any calculation of earnings, including but not limited to earnings before interest and taxes, earnings before taxes, earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and net earnings), earnings per share, net income, net profit, net sales, operating cash flow, operating expenses, operating income, operating margin, overhead or other expense reduction, product defect measures, product release timelines, productivity, profit, return
on assets, return
on capital, return
on equity, return
on investment, return
on sales, revenue, revenue growth, sales results, sales growth,
stock price, time to market, total stockholder return, working capital, and individual objectives such as MBOs, peer reviews, or other subjective or objective criteria.
On the other hand, a
position trader who rides the profit in uptrending
stocks for many months can trade in much thinner
stocks because they can scale out of
positions over the course of several days or weeks.
Given the high allocation to Attractive - or - better rated
stocks, and equal allocation to Unattractive - or - worse rated
stocks relative to the benchmark XLF, KIE appears well
positioned to capture upside potential while taking
on an average level of downside risk.
Citron Research unveils bullish
position on Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) that calls the company the «most shorted
stock in the world» that's «
on its way to...
After buying shares of Facebook
stock in December of 2013 and February of 2014 in our nightly
stock trading letter, we sold the full
position on March 10, locking in separate price gains of 49 % AND 12 %
on $ FB.
In my nightly
stock and ETF pick newsletter, I generally use a minimum ADTV requirement of 100k - 500k shares for individual
stocks (depending
on share size of the
position), but may go as low as 50k shares for ETFs (in order to achieve greater asset class diversity).
That October, Buffett exercised all of its warrants to purchase 10.7 million shares of GE's common
stock, a
position valued at $ 264.76 million based
on the closing price
on the date the shares were delivered.
As we entered into neutral mode
on October 5, we began exiting all long
positions in individual
stocks and started focusing primarily
on swing trading ETFs with a low correlation to the direction of the overall
stock market (ie.
I don't have a major
position in a tech
stock and IBM is
on so many screens.
Since generating the «sell» signal
on April 4, 2012 that got us out of our long
positions near the top, right before
stocks entered into a correction, we have subsequently been
positioned in a combination of cash and short
positions or inverse ETFs.
The
stock also gained the attention of investing legend George Soros, who took a small
position as part of a broader bullish play
on energy.
Although our nightly swing trading newsletter is basically a dynamic service that generates specific
stock and ETF trade ideas, the main goal of our trading system is to aggressively trade the best technical trade setups when conditions are ideal, but also be ready and able to quickly and cut back market exposure by reducing
position size
on new trades (or simply not trading at all) when market conditions deteriorate.
On a separate note, here is a brief update on the open stock and ETF positions presently in our model swing trading portfolio: We sold a partial position of Celldex Therapeutics ($ CLDX) for an 18 % gain on April 25, but remain long about half the original shares (more on our $ CLDX entry here
On a separate note, here is a brief update
on the open stock and ETF positions presently in our model swing trading portfolio: We sold a partial position of Celldex Therapeutics ($ CLDX) for an 18 % gain on April 25, but remain long about half the original shares (more on our $ CLDX entry here
on the open
stock and ETF
positions presently in our model swing trading portfolio: We sold a partial
position of Celldex Therapeutics ($ CLDX) for an 18 % gain
on April 25, but remain long about half the original shares (more on our $ CLDX entry here
on April 25, but remain long about half the original shares (more
on our $ CLDX entry here
on our $ CLDX entry here).
For instance, consider an investor who is retired, living
on a fixed income stream, who may have more expenses concentrated in health care (where costs are rapidly rising), and whose portfolio is conservatively
positioned with 20 % in
stocks and 80 % in bonds.
News of this unified and unequivocal
position is also making the rounds
on stock analyst and business websites.
As I hold a
position in Comcast (CMCSA) I typically tend to monitor what's going
on around those
stocks and how that activity may affect my
position.
You may not have added to your
positions but you stayed
on course which is more than most people have done and if you held quality dividend
stocks you were still getting paid during that rocky period.
On December 19, we bought SolarCity ($ SCTY), one of the top stocks on our watchlist, then added to the position as the stock surged highe
On December 19, we bought SolarCity ($ SCTY), one of the top
stocks on our watchlist, then added to the position as the stock surged highe
on our watchlist, then added to the
position as the
stock surged higher.