Friday, May 7, 2010

5/7 Morningline: Holdings

My May bull options positions have already been hit hard by the Greek debt crisis. They all participated in yesterday's Skynet Panic. And they're all down sharply today, with 15 calendar days left until the last day of trading before expiration.

This is when decision-making gets tough.
trendadxpsarppsmacdmacd
trend
stosto
trend
CIEN$16.06 bull opt
GE $16.84 bull opt
JNK $37.22 div
MCO $24.85 zombie
NLY $16.06 div
PALM $5.80 spec sit
QQQQ $45.58 bull opt
UNP $71.18 bull opt
At 10:57 a.m. Eastern

Biggest decline: CIEN, down 5.3%. It has essentially retraced the whole range of the panic.

Also way down, GE, 3%; QQQQ, 2.3%; UNP, 2.2%.

One of my stock dividend holdings, NLY, which has been a cause of unrelieved gloom for weeks, is up by 2%. A contrarian, obviously.


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Skynet Panic of May 6
Panic Looks Like This
Skynet Panic Poisons Technical Tools


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Abbreviations:
psar - Parabolic Stop and Reverse
adx - Average Directional Index
pps - Person's Proprietary Signal
ma20 - 20-day moving average
macd - Moving Average Convergence-Divergence
mfi - Money Flow Index
sto - Fast Stochastic


About the glance: The colors indicate the state of each signal.
  • trend: Determined by the 5-day moving average, green for up, red for down, yellow for sideways
  • adx: orange for above 30-up, blue for 20-down, purple for in the middle. Red is most prone to whipsaws
  • psar, pps, macd: green for bull mode, red for bear
  • sto: green for overbought, red for oversold, yellow for the neutral zone.


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