You will find a lot of places that claim you can make money in the stock markets when the markets are trending downwards. I'm going to show you one way to go about it.
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The nearly universally detested plan to use $700B in federal money (ourmoney) to buy up bundles of mortgage debt from financial institutions hit the skids today. I happened to be watching on Bloomberg TV through their online feed and you definitely got the visceral feel of anxiety from both those who were reporting and voting on it.
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I guess we finally know how much money it takes to get the attention of congress.
$700B
That's how much the Secretary of the Treasury (Henry Paulson) is asking the U.S. Congress to approve for him to use in buying up "toxic" assets?
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Regardless of how I might feel about being on the hook for Freddie Mae and Fannie Mac's debt, the market responded to the news of the government stepping in with a big surge overall, but espcially in housing stocks.
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There's a problem child in my virtual portfolio, and it goes by the name of Google.
I put in a virtual call for 520 on GOOG back in the beginning of August, when things looked like they were heading up. I figured Christmas was coming and online retailers tend to spend lots of $$ on AdWords that time of year.
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It seems that energy is still headed down this week, with the once high flying coal sector going along for the ride.
ICO has been gapping down the last couple of days and closed today at $8.43. All of the technical indicators are pointing down, as well as the recent trends, so it looks to me like this will be a good one to put in a virtual $7.50 PUT. JRCC is having a similar pattern, but with a possible PUT at $30.
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Good news for New Orleans turned out to be bad news for energy stocks – at least the ones I had virtual positions on. I had been looking for a signal that my options would start going up, but after today it became obvious it was time to dump them.
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