CF Industries: CF
Industrial farming, as it is, depends heavily on fertilizer. The primary pure-play competitors in the fertilizer space who reside in the US are CF Industries (CF), Mosaic (MOS), Intrepid Industries (IPI), and Nutrient (NUT). This article is for paid members…

Chevron: CVX
Unlike the average investor, we like the oil & gas sector of the economy. As much as we would like to see a transition to more efficient energy sources, that is just not happening. All we have to do is…

What Ails UnitedHealth? (updated)
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled by Fortune magazine. It ranks the top 500 U.S. companies by total revenue and is typically released around this time each year. The list includes both publicly traded and privately held companies.…

Selling Volatility: SVXY
Selling volatility is a yield strategy. Volatility traders buy vol when it is cheap and sell it when it is expensive. Options market makers buy and sell options against stock as they provide liquidity to the market. That removes 80%…

Panning for yield.
Most investors, particularly when they first start investing, are primarily concerned with capital appreciation. Parents saving for a child’s college education will only withdraw from those savings once their son or daughter begins attending. Saving for a down payment on…

Discover Financial Services: DFS
Credit card products are the most profitable products in the financial services industry. I am also the most volatile. When the economy is chugging along, defaults are low and profits are high. When the economy goes into recession, defaults and…

Going to Pot

Thanks once again to everyone who attended our presentation at the Traders Expo in NY yesterday. We were very proud to see a record crowd and impressed by the level…

Close Out Bearish TLT Trade

We recently posted an update to our bond market analysis on 21-February-2018. We were then and are now, long-term bearish on bonds. To that end, we held a short call-spread risk-reversal…

The Week Ahead 2/26/2018

What to Watch for this Week This week we have a heavy economic calendar.  Lots of Data will be coming out, except employment.  Congress will be working on their Infrastructure…

Don’t Forget About Dividends

There at theOptionsEdge.Com, we focus on active management of our investments. We take bullish positions in companies that we think are undervalued (i.e. trade below intrinsic value) due to some short-term…

Is Smart Beta really Smart?

Smart Beta is all the rage in the fund management world these days. Smart Beta is another way of saying "factor" investing. Define a factor you like, rank stocks by…

Bond Market Update

The bond market has been taking it on the chin these days and for good reason. (1) The economy is growing faster which tends to increase real (nominal yields less…

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