How To Create Better Trading Opportunities Through Hedging

Posted on by The INO.com Team

According to professional options trader Jon Najarian, options add a great deal of flexibility to your trading program and can help you leverage your S&P trades, decrease your losses and avoid being "stopped to death".

In this exciting, fast-paced video, you'll learn how to watch the market so you can position your trades ahead of major news events. You'll be spellbound as Jon explains how to develop safer and less painful ways to play the bear side of the market and shows you smarter ways to make money selling a dull, sideways market. Plus, you'll find out why SPDRs are better than putting your money into mutual funds, and you'll discover how you can squeeze more cash out of existing stock holdings.

If you've been thinking about adding options trading to your repertoire, this is one video you can't afford to miss!

WATCH NOW: How To Create Better Trading Opportunities Through Hedging

Best,
The INOTV Team

Chevron Flashes Buy

Posted on by Adam Feik

Adam Feik - INO.com Contributor - Energies


You read that headline correctly. Don't look now (you might jinx it), but Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX), the large integrated oil major, now sports green monthly and weekly Trade Triangles on its MarketClub chart. And this with oil at $35 per barrel.

CVX has given back about 29% of its value since closing at $134.85 on June 24, 2014 (on a price-only basis). At its worst, the stock's peak-to-trough decline was nearly 47% as of this August 25th, when CVX closed at $70.02. Wednesday's closing price was a much better $93.44 – good for a cool 33% gain for anyone lucky enough to have caught the falling knife right at its recent bottom.

CVX is now down just 12.9% for 2015 year-to-date (YTD) when including dividends. On a 3-year annualized basis, CVX shares have lost 0.6% annualized, and on a 5-year basis, the number is +4.77% per year. All those performance numbers are on par with Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) and other integrated oil majors. You could safely say it's been a wild ride for all of them. Continue reading "Chevron Flashes Buy" →

Weekly Futures Recap With Mike Seery

Posted on by The INO.com Team

We've asked Michael Seery of SEERYFUTURES.COM to give our INO readers a weekly recap of the Futures market. He has been Senior Analyst for close to 15 years and has extensive knowledge of all of the commodity and option markets.

Michael frequently appears on multiple business networks including Bloomberg news, Fox Business, CNBC Worldwide, CNN Business, and Bloomberg TV. He is also a guest on First Business, which is a national and internationally syndicated business show.

Crude Oil Futures

Crude oil futures in the January contract settled last Friday in New York at 36.62 a barrel while currently trading at 34.88 down slightly for the trading week continuing its bearish trend as I was recommending a short position in heating oil offsetting that position last Monday as I’m currently sitting on the sidelines in the energy complex. At the current time crude oil prices are trading far below their 20 and 100 day moving average as this market seems to be headed lower in my opinion, but I am a little concerned that everybody is extremely bearish and generally when everybody’s on one side of the boat that can be a dangerous indicator in my opinion. The commodity markets in general look very weak as there is the possibility in my opinion that prices can trade down to $25 as OPEC not only did not cut production they increased production as they are playing chicken with world production trying to push prices lower sending many other countries including the United States out of producing oil as Saudi Arabia can still be profitable even if these lower levels as many other countries cannot as they will have to slow down production. Continue reading "Weekly Futures Recap With Mike Seery" →

Yesterday Provided A Huge Clue To The Market

Posted on by The INO.com Team

The market action yesterday in the major indices and many other markets has to be viewed as negative. The major indices all created what are called bearish engulfing patterns.

Bearish engulfing patterns occur when the market opens higher than the previous day's close and then closes below the low of the previous day. The main body of the candle totally engulfs the body of the previous candle. I will visually explain this phenomenon in today's video update. If you are interested in candlestick charts, I have a PDF titled, "17 Money Making Candlestick Formations." You can download the PDF here.

Should the indices closed lower than the close we saw on Thursday, it would confirm a top in the market and indicate further weakness.

I may be sounding like a broken record, but the reality is, December has turned out to be an extraordinarily volatile month. Historically, December tends to be choppy and volatile, but this year is proven to be the granddaddy of them all. Continue reading "Yesterday Provided A Huge Clue To The Market" →

Trading Tip #8 - Let Your Profits Run

Posted on by The INO.com Team

Let your profits run.

12 Days of Trading Tips Day 8

Letting your profits run is tough mentally and often leads to traders closing out trades too early. It feels risky, but once you understand that trying to protect every penny of your profit prevents you from making a bigger profit, you will be on the road to success.

Don't sell on fear and impatience. Remember your plan.

Every success with MarketClub,
Adam Hewison
President, INO.com
Co-Creator, MarketClub

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