Monday's Agenda

I shall be looking a FXE today as a potential volatility play.

I'm rejecting GDXJ, TBT and TLT as potential volatility plays because of the specialized nature of their underlyings: GDXJ is gold, and both TBT and TLT are long-term U.S. Treasuries, both of which are responding to political events in the wake of the U.S. elections. Stocks, by contrast, are a more complex arena.

All of my shares prospects pulled back today, disqualifying them from further consideration.

I noted C, along with FXE, as trades I would look at as a results of trades posted on the education site Dough, which I will be tracking as a learning project.

I'm rejecting C because the rationale for the trade was based on political events. I'm all about the calculable odds, something generally beyond the grasp of politics.

FXE, as I noted above, is still of interest, and I shall post a full analysis soon using a changed format.

I shall look at trades posted today on Dough and analyze them as warranted.

See Monday's Prospects for more.

By Tim Bovee, Portland, Oregon, Nov. 28, 2016

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few by Robert B. Reich

References

Tradecraft: Playing the odds to build winning stock market trades from options, a description of how I trade, can be read here.

Small Lots: A new strategy discusses the thinking behind the analysis that identified these trades and can be read here. The symbols noted in this post are intended for trading on a commission-free platform such as Robinhood Financial. See my initial post on the strategy here.

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