Is It Time to Hedge Once Again?
The equity markets are at an interesting juncture. After ripping higher since the election, equities, in general, have begun to move sideways. When that process started differs by market cap.…
What We Need is More Cow Bell!
It is no secret that many college graduates are up to their eyeballs in debt. Many graduates have the equivalent of a home mortgage but not the house. Most people borrow…
President’s Tax Plan Fails to Excite
At about 3:00 yesterday afternoon, the President presented an outline for his income tax plan. Here is a copy of the document which is just one page long. Of note, there…
3 Trade Ideas Rolled At Options Expiration
We took profits and closed a number of trades at options expiration. At the same time, there are still a number of promising situations where our investment thesis still holds.…
Portfolio Update (21-April-2017)
We present our ideas here at TheOptionsEdge.Com and we identify this portfolio as the TOE Trades. In 2016 and 2017 we wrote for Action Alerts Options over at TheStreet.Com. We…
Precious Metals Update
The reflation trade is a phrase used by the financial press and investment professionals to describe investment reallocation on the assumption that economic growth and inflation will rise. It is used…
Income Tax Time: Rates Then & Now
This week is the deadline for citizens and tax payers in the United States to file their tax forms. Anyone can get an automatic extension by asking for it should they…
Options Expiration Week: Take Profits & Reposition for Further Gains
Standard Monthly Options expire at the end of this week. Since we have 7 open positions to address, we thought we should discuss them now so you have time to…
Easy Money Has Been Made: Take Profits on Acuity Brands (AYI) Put Spread
Back on March 24, 2016, we recommended investors construct a bearish put-spread on Acuity Brands, Inc. (AYI), the lighting manufacturing and solutions company. Click here for the original article. The company…
Nervous Bulls
It is no secret that equity prices are elevated. The post-election rally pushed share prices back to levels we thought we would not see again for a long long time. Since…