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OPEC’s Death By Papercuts, FedEx One-Ups UPS & Apple Being Apple September 6, 2022 Great Stuff OPEC’s Roughnecks Great Ones, OPEC was born to be a roughneck. But as we’re all finding out this year, pullin’ case and layin’ pipe is hard labor. And oil prices, while volatile, will never amount to nothin’. Har har, Mr. Great Stuff. Pulling out Johnny Cash to rag on oil? You’re getting desperate. I mean, […]
A Bear Market Fortune September 6, 2022 Investing, King's Corner, Trading Strategies, Unusual Options Activity If you’ve followed King’s Corner closely, you know all about my history… How I grew up as a kid with a knack for trading baseball cards… How I parlayed that knack into a trading job at the CBOE… How I almost lost everything I had there… And how I recalibrated on the other side of the world and made a fortune on the comeback…
Does Summer’s End = Time to Sell? September 3, 2022 Investing, Real Talk, Stocks We’re in what’s historically the worst month for stocks each year: September. Here’s Charles’ take…
August’s Goldilocks Jobs Report, Frickin’ Ford, Asleep On PagerDuty September 2, 2022 Great Stuff The Song Remains The Same Great Ones, I had a dream. Oh, yeah … a crazy dream. A dream that today’s August nonfarm payrolls report would offer some direction … some hope … some indication of where the economy was headed and where the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy would go. Oh, what a dream that […]
The Secret to Surviving Volatility September 2, 2022 Investing, King's Corner, Trading Strategies, Unusual Options Activity This week was brutal. At the lowest point yesterday, the S&P 500 had dropped 3.7% since the start of the week… And the NASDAQ had dropped 4.4%. That was after the Fed took stocks to the cleaners on Friday. So, the question for us traders is: How can we stay afloat in this volatility? The answer is timing. Knowing when to act, and when not to, is a real skill.