CalTrader - Investing Insight

How to Get the Most Out of Pumping Gas!

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:33:00 +0000

This is short little article on how to save a few cents at the gas pump. The most important part of the article is near the end, where it talks about buyin gas from certain stations that dont import...

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Chart Time!

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:55:00 +0000

NTRI, Nutri-Systems took yet another tumble after the bell and already 50% of the 32 odd million shares outstanding are sold SHORT. Someone is making some bucks $$! Look out for BIDU Earnings after...

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Nice Plays and New Ideas!

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:19:00 +0000

From my last post I shorted TIE & OGE at their 50SMA's. I covered for a couple hundred dollar profits on both stocks, no substantial movements downward, but a pullback nonetheless. Since, BIDU...

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Shorts, and Possible Breakouts

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:48:00 +0000

I'm shorting Titanium Metals (TIE) on the basis of it tagging it's 50SMA (simple moving average). The stock itself has been weak, relatively dampened volume, and it crept up right to it's 50SMA to...

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New Post of Charts

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:11:00 +0000

The 190 Level is holding as support for Goldman Sachs. Anything under $200 for this company is a great buy, so why not buy $3 up off major support as a long term play? If I were going to buy, I would...

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Late Day APPLE Breakout..

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Sat, 26 May 2007 02:49:00 +0000

I've been finding out that when I do my daily activities and come home around 2:00 during the afternoon, I haven't been glued to my screen all day searching for trading opportunities and I don't...

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Quick Scalps

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:01:00 +0000

The market sold off in the last Hours of Trading, so I decided to short the most volatile stocks as they would not hold up under market pressure. In my observation the DOW Jones Industrials were...

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RIMM Hits New Highs

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:14:00 +0000

courtesy of www.zacks.com Original article can be found here. 5/22/07 2:44:25 PM Research in Motion (RIMM) High on iPhone? - Checking in on today's list of newly-tagged annual highs for...

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WIRE Buy Point

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Thu, 17 May 2007 03:32:00 +0000

WIRE, sitting on 200 Moving Day Average, Resistance turned Support, Nice entry point.

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Trading Apple Options

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 09 May 2007 22:20:00 +0000

Today I hit a double on the AAPLE MAY $105 CALLS, buying in at $1.42 and selling out at $2.85. what a ride it was! I knew the consolidation mid-day was just masking the ultimate breakout we received...

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Chart Reading...

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 09 May 2007 02:28:00 +0000

Fed meeting is coming up and equity investors seem like they're in the duldrums. We sell off in the morning and catching a market hiccup only to head higher and close almost unchanged 3...

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Back With A Bang!

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Tue, 01 May 2007 23:44:00 +0000

Today was a great full day of trading multiple contracts on different entities. First, I noticed the lack luster strength in the DOW this morning, and watched oil closely. One thing I notice with oil...

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Easter Time

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:08:00 +0000

Happy Easter to everyone. I haven't been posting a lot because I'm only holding a few positions for the long term. I have a Vertical Debit Spread on CHK with the 27.5 and 30 Call Options which have...

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Hedge Time

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:26:00 +0000

Make sure you hedge your portfolio if you're a trader of stocks. A trader would be defined as one who buys and sells stocks using a holding period of less than 6 months. Long term investors just see...

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Did someone flush the toilet?

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:07:00 +0000

Did I do that!? Well I'd hate to be a bullish cherry on a day like today's tree, so I'm surely glad I stuck to my shorts and bought puts, easily doubling them up to 100%+ on a day trade. We've...

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Rimm Hits New Highs

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 01:14:00 +0000

It seems as though RIMM finally made it's move, and busted to new highs today when it was upgraded by RBC Capital Firm, stating: "Industry contacts suggest a spate of pent-up demand for the handheld...

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Hey

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:06:00 +0000

I haven't been trading much that's why there are a lack of post. I've got some good stuff coming up so stay tuned, this is only a short sabatical. I'm actually working on my own domain name and newly...

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Read Away!

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 23:11:00 +0000

I've been spending most of my time reading market books and studying different strategies that have been written on how to trade the markets. One I just finished is, Options Made Easy by Guy Cohen....

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Welcome Back I Say!

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:15:00 +0000

Thank you for patiently awaiting the wonderful post I'm about to unveil for my day trading, option scavenging, investment guru audience! (ok so maybe some of you just started putting a couple bucks...

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Trades & Ivanka

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:25:00 +0000

Had a nice morning on the Dow Futures (YM).....took a shower and decided to draw my fib lines and test some retracements, well I gave back all the morning gains and switched over to the S&P 500...

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Nice Entry on NYX

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:46:00 +0000

Here is the classic Cramer run up on news, and steady pullback to the rising 50dma. Very nice entry for a longer term bullish view on this stock. 78.6% Retracement & 50DMA Support

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Straddle Up!

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:45:00 +0000

I'm going to focus on a stock option strategy called a "straddle play". You see, the entire point of a straddle is to allow you to remain in the market, with limited risk, when you aren't sure which...

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News and Ramps

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:38:00 +0000

A great article collection about almost every possible thing you want to know about investing, to include: volume reading, stock options, ETF's, technical analysis, market research, & stock charts....

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Long Term Oil

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:28:00 +0000

Let's talk about the oil sector for a moment. As of right now I'd consider buying oil as a contrarian play, and I'm buying Out Of The Money Calls, dated out to July 2007. OPEC will cut, weather...

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Stock Exchanges

noreply@blogger.com (Cal) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:50:00 +0000

I sure hope you had at least one of these bad boys on your watch list today: IntercontinentalExchange, Inc. (Public, NYSE:ICE) up 9% NYSE Group, Inc. (Public, NYSE:NYX) up 3.5% NYMEX Holdings, Inc....

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