joseph78

Two Ways to Invest in Ukraine

I am not sure how investing into VIP is investing into Ukraine. There are 2 major Mobile Operators in Ukraine and none belongs to Vimpel. Although Golden Telecom has some business in Ukraine, most of its revenues are coming from Russia. I dought that VIP has more then 3% exposure to Ukraine.

Taking Profits in Quality Systems on Cerner Hype

What would you say about buying some puts into June or even shorting the stock with some call protection? My bet is the stock will drop to at least $50 level or maybe even $45 level.

Leap into Google with Option Call Spreads

A bit risky, but Interesting. What do you think about the following strategy:

Buy Jan2010 380 Call and Sell Jan2010 430 Call. You will need roughly $2300 per contract and can make a maximum of $2700 or 120%. For this strategy to be profitable the price of GOOG has to be above $430 or just 15% over the current price and you break even @ $403.

I am also thinking about going even lower: Buy 340 Call, sell 390 Call, for this you need to invest $3000 and you can potentially make maximum of $2000. The price of GOOG however only has to stay the same and you can collect profits.

Time to Get Long Black Gold? How Option Spreads Can Pay Off

Well what about the fact that USO and crude are correlated in a very strange and unpredictable way? I remember selling USO puts when oil was around $38 and USO was around $32 and I ended up selling USO for $24 when oil was $42 in 2-3 month. Are we guaranteed that USO will be over $40 if crude is $70-$80 ? Now I understand that USO is a different instrument which tracks oil futures, but I feel a bit cheated because I did a right move in terms of betting on oil, but a very bad move in terms of picking USO as my instrument. After that trade I am staying away from oil.