Archive for October, 2009

Dancin’ With The Dollar

Posted: October 29, 2009 by nickfenton in My Trades
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You may or may not have seen my most recent post about US Dollar Futures.  As noted in the post, I was holding long with trepidation. Today I added 1 more contract to the position.  I like the follow through to the upside that I saw yesterday, and felt today’s pull back to the 8 [...]

Double Down On The Dollar?

Posted: October 27, 2009 by nickfenton in My Trades
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I’ve been actively trading US Dollar Futures (thinkorswim ticker /dx) since the start of the rally last Thursday.  The action has been impressive. Buy side interest can mainly be attributed to short covering, but I think we are starting to see some genuine buy side interest. I’m currently long US Dollar futures, and continue to [...]

Howard Lindzon Talks StockTwits With Nick Fenton

Posted: October 20, 2009 by nickfenton in Personal
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I’ve been involved with Stocktwits since the very early days.  In fact, when I was in NYC to ring the Nasdaq closing bell with the StockTwits family, Soren Macbeth (StockTwits co-founder) told me that he was checking the archives and I was one of the first 10 people to post on stocktwits.  Gotta love that! [...]

Alcoa (NYSE: AA) Trade

Posted: October 12, 2009 by nickfenton in My Trades
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I’ve been acquiring Alcoa (NYSE: AA) in lots of 100 for the past two weeks.  All acquisitions were prior to earnings, and coupled with the sale of October 15 Calls against the underlying. This is what’s known as a Covered Call. I obtain a credit for selling the Calls against each 100 lot of stock [...]

Movin’ On Up

Posted: October 2, 2009 by nickfenton in Personal
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Today was a good day. I have been added to the “Featured Users” list over at MyTrade.com! This is significant because there are currently only 7 Trader’s on the list, all of which are highly respected.  Having my name among those Trader’s is an honor and a pleasure! Check out MyTrade today.  It’s an excellent [...]