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I’ve been engaged in a thoroughly interesting IM conversation this morning with my editor at Property Secrets about covered calls. It’s been really nice to get away from our usual practical exchanges about deliveries and deadlines!
Anyway, he went off and did some research of his own, of course, and came back to me with […]

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The technical analysis of any market – stocks, indices, commodities, currencies and so on – is otherwise known as charting. And, despite the name, it can be a lot of fun!
Beware, though! Maverick Investors only pour over charts, and watch the price action like a hawk, for fun (and profit!) If you don’t get […]

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This just in from Associated Press…
Home prices in many cities continued to plunge by record levels in January as sellers cut their asking bids and rising foreclosures took their toll, new data showed Tuesday.
While the spring selling season usually gives the market a bounce, some analysts say any notable improvement may not come until […]

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So far, we’ve learned that the ‘traditional’ covered call strategy works well if the underlying stock moves just a little either way, or steams upwards. However, it offers little by way of downside protection, limited as it is to the time premium collected on the sold ‘at the money’ or ‘out of the money’ […]

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The financial police in the UK, the FSA, are on a manhunt!
The trigger was a massive 20% fall in the share price of Halifax Bank of Scotland this week, on rumours that it had been to the Bank of England, cap in hand, for emergency funding. This is how the Northern Rock crisis began […]

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Can you imagine having a killer forex strategy that allows you to extract cash from the biggest market in the world at any time you choose, day or night? You could trade at any time, and from anywhere. You could be sitting trading currency in Dubai or in Denver, making forex profits in the […]

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I’ve heard this idea crop up many times over the years. Each time it surfaces, it seems to carry ever more weight, as do the people talking about it.
Here’s a good introductory video, for those who have always assumed that “Federal” Reserve means “Government” Reserve. As one of the interviewees says, the Federal Reserve […]

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Here we consider another version of the covered call that offers much greater downside protection and a much larger potential profit range.
For this, we’re going to move away from ABC shares of previous articles and run an example with a real company, and real numbers.
Let’s look at Rambus (RMBS), a company that manufactures and […]

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The Bear Stearns debacle is a big one - and there are bound to be other, similar meltdowns out there, just waiting to be revealed.
Bear Stearns was founded in 1923 and is a real grand-daddy of Wall Street. Last Friday, it had to be bailed out by the Fed as it ran out of […]

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I read a profile of Warren Buffet over the weekend, and I was reminded of his infamous Rules of Investing…
Rule Number 1: Don’t lose money.
Rule Number 2: Don’t forget Rule Number 1.
I love the concise simplicity here!
I also love the fact he’s just donated $37 billion to charity - much of it via his […]

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