Options traders who are more comfortable with call options can think of purchasing a put to protect a long
stock position much like a synthetic long call.
Not exact matches
«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.
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.
Buffett's usual style (though it certainly wasn't visible with Conoco) is to buy a
stock when it's out of favor, and that pretty
much describes J & J's current
position.
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.
I'm aggressively saving as
much cash as possible myself, but that's b / c I'm all in with real estate, and a decent
position in
stocks.
We upgraded our view on U.S. consumer discretionary
stocks last fall and still believe that households are in a better
position than they were just a few years ago: Consumer debt is down while household wealth is up, gasoline prices are
much lower than a year ago and the U.S. is creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s.
Further, the competitive
position of these companies should enable them to capture
much of the economics from U.S. corporate tax reform, yet the
stocks both trade for lower prices than before the passage of the bill.
Importantly, Tesla said it expects its gross profit to grow at a
much more rapid rate than its non-GAAP operating expenses in the coming quarters,
positioning Tesla to «at least be profitable in Q3 and Q4 excluding non-cash
stock based compensation,» management said.
Following a market crash, your
stock positions are likely worth
much less than they were just days ago.
Open selling
positions percentage (2.74 %) shows the investors are not very
much interested in selling Dicerna, while many bears locked in their profits Friday, when the
stocks rose as
much as by 17.86 %.
Now that we know the implication of major antitrust actions for the
position of the social mood trend, we can anticipate that two to five years from now, the
stock market is likely to be
much lower than it is today.
Dell was using options as a way to be «long» its own
stock without shelling out
much cash (buying a call and selling a put at the same strike price is an «equivalent long
position», as option traders would say).
However, it has a
much more concentrated portfolio of
stocks, owning just 26 different
positions.
This serves to exit your
position,
much like selling a
stock in the equity markets closes a trade.
In our smaller accounts, say $ 250K, we'd have a
much higher percent of ETFs to avoid having too many tiny
stock positions.
No
stock position occupies as
much as 1 % of the portfolio and it currently has
much less direct foreign investment than its peers.
Not only does holding an ETF protect you from individual
stock gyrations, but chances are you're like to incur lower trading costs as well since ETF and mutual fund investors tend to hold their
positions much longer than individual
stock traders.
Once logged in, since you have already got quite a few functions for free, there aren't
much left to use, except that you can check your
positions (break down into
stocks and options), account balance, order status, and of course, make a trade.
I've rather typically built larger
positions in a relatively short period of time — as fast as capital and other available opportunities would allow — by just buying the same
stock pretty
much over and over again over the course of a few months or so, before finding myself pretty well
stocked up on that particular name and then moving on to other ideas.
Whenever you want to buy any securities /
stock or take new
position, sell Liquid ETF of that
much amount and create new
position.
Because
stocks have an upside bias and our models are slow moving, there is often not
much profit from short
positions by the time you enter and exit.
Last week, I initiated a
position in an ETF: S&P Metals and Mining (XME) as I do not own
much of commodity or resources
stocks and want to have some exposure to this beaten down sector.
I also initiated a
position in an ETF: S&P Metals and Mining (XME) as I do not own
much of commodity or resources
stocks and want to have some exposure to this beaten down sector.
Over longer periods of time, the odds are that you'll be in a
much better
position than you would have been without using
stocks.
As long as some portion of an investor's portfolio is in foreign
stocks, evidence suggests that those
stocks should not be currency - hedged for three reasons: (1) Currency unhedged portfolios are not
much more volatile than currency - hedged ones (and less volatile for US markets) and (2) Currency hedging appears to add about 1 % extra cost and (3) Some currency unhedged
positions reduce overall portfolio volatility.
Oh I see, so our
positions sound similar in that as our portfolios evolve it's important to stay on top of how
much we actually own of our employer
stock and not get to concentrated.
There simply isn't
much of a track record for currency hedging, so my default
position is still unhedged exposure to foreign
stocks.
The advantage of using options is that a trader commits a
much smaller amount of money to take a
position in a certain
stock.
I am
much better
positioned to hold this
stock now than I was in the past.
Dell was using options as a way to be «long» its own
stock without shelling out
much cash (buying a call and selling a put at the same strike price is an «equivalent long
position», as option traders would say).
by cash, do you mean how
much of the «Account Total Market Value» is mine or do you mean how
much is literally in a cash
position as opposed to tied up in a
stock position?
I said to him, «Jason is a skilled trader, is good at discerning market conditions, and is able to trade our
positions without divulging too
much of what we want to do especially when
stocks aren't liquid.»
While traders buying and selling
stocks over the course of weeks or months aren't subject to minimum capital requirements, they'll still need to weigh
position size, account risk, and trade risk [5] to gauge how
much they'll need to get started.
This is a
stock that I have owned for a while but simply never posted about because I had a small
position and I didn't really have
much to say about the company.
Xylem never interested me that
much, perhaps because management was seemingly trying to
position the company as a «story
stock»: «Water, the business of the future».
Despite BVF's failure to remove the board, we continued to maintain our
position in AVGN because BVF won a number of important concessions from the board that made AVGN a
much more attractive
stock than it was when we started following it.
how
much of the portfolio to allocate to any given
stock — intelligent
position sizes maximize your profits and minimize your portfolio risks
If I can't find undervalued
stocks, then I have a
much higher cash
position.
Automated trading systems can be used to trade
stocks, options, futures and foreign exchange products based on a predefined set of rules, which determine when to enter an order, when to exit a
position and how
much money to invest in each trading product.
Sam will soon have tens of thousands — and not too
much later, will have hundreds of thousands of dollars — in real, tangible assets like
stocks and bonds, investment real estate, and a sizable cash
position.
You pointed out in your reply how these «better» neighborhoods tend to emerge from the down - cycles in a better
position —
much like large, blue - chip
stocks holding steady over time.