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Options Trader: Friday Outlook

SHIP SHAPE If you are right on the soul crude, do you think FTO is a good play? They refine sour crude from Canada and got a large contract before oil shot so hi.

Baidu: A Train Heading for Derailment?

I think BIDU is due for a small pull back and the author is trying to emphasis the pull back to advantage. I have a May straddle on it and I think it is time to sale the call and hope he is sucessful in making the pull back large enough for me to break even on the put. After that I think it will follow GOOG.

Checkout Line Display Material: 'Idiot's Guide to Improving Your Credit Score'

EVERYONE, if you state a problem then give at least one answer, groups of ideas are what has made this nation great. Here is mine; 6 weeks of high school math should be personal finance and required of every student. It should start out with how to use and manage a checking account, how intrest can work for us, and finish with how much interest cost us. How much they would pay over years if they only pay the min on a 10k credit card, and of course how much they pay in interest on a 30 year house loan.

Market Outlook: Watch Out, the Signs Can Be Deceiving

Have the large fund managers started buying yet?

Beware the Housing-Bottom Callers

Does anyone think the housing market and assoc. stocks are going to do a U turn as soon as they hit bottom? Or is there anyone else that also thinks they will move strait sideways for a long time before any real gains?

Get Ready for the Last Rally

Alan, what sector do you think will be hardest hit in the long term(after the short rally and the end of the summer) and why?

Citigroup Bottoming - Plus Some Free Advice for Meredith Whitney

I agree with you but for that long of a read there are a few more points that I think should have been included. If people start defaulting on auto loans in large numbers, then credit cards will be close behind. This could drive C into the low teens, other wise I think it will bottom around 20.
I think Meredith Whitney has a little longer to ride the short and shine in the spot light. When C does hit bottom I think it will go flat for months, giving plenty of time to cover the shorts.
Disclosure: I have strangles and straddles on C, when it hits 20 then i will pull the stops in close on the puts.

Time to Short Financial Stocks - Starting with BofA

Aubie Baltin, is C going into the teens? I am also short on it. I think if we see autos repoed in large numbers, then credit card defaults will be quick to follow and C will drop close to $10. Do you see any way it will go that low?

Gold Reserve, Crystallex Jump on Government Permits

Nova I agree with most of what you wrote, I own some of the stock and will point out why.

It is very easy to predict sence 75% is owned by individuals and only 25% by institution. The stock behaves as if mostly owned by new investors therefore making huge gaps on news with large volume. I would wager that I will double my investment when the permit is issued. There is only one key to this stock, buy when nonthing new has happen for a while (like now when it is below $2.5) and sale on the news (such as the permit being issued).

What other penny stock makes it this easy to double in such a short period of time?

Why Lenders Love the Mortgage-Freeze Plan

So the way I understand it is, the banks will not loose money with this deal, they just will not make the money they expected to or forcast when they made the loans?
End result is that it is still bad for share holders, just not as bad as it could have been.

Homebuilders: Climbing The Walls of Worry

A long read to say nothing. This is about 3-6 months to early and the big guys calling the bottom is only going to prolong the real bottom. Who is really going to put long term money in housing before the end of this year? Only the guys trying to create an artifical bottom. Everyone I know that is in the market for a house is still waiting for the prices to go lower and see if the intrest rates go lower before they lock in. Everyone knows rates aren't going up any time soon, so why buy now. And no the tax break this late in the year isn't enough to make a difference.

Another Absurd Homebuilder Rally

True, but Kim gives us a chance to pick up long term puts at a discount. I wonder how many of his colleges are taking advantage of this?