Sunday, May 30, 2010

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Investors & Friends:

Here's a summary of our investment actions from the past week.

Option Strategies - Naked Puts

1) Goldcorp Inc (NYSE: GG) - We sold Jan '12 $17.50 puts.

2) Vivus Inc (Nasdaq: VVUS) - We sold September $4.00 puts.

Short Strategies

3) We bought more ProShares UltraShort FTSE Xinhua China 25 (NYSE: FXP) on 5/19 @ $44.87.

Click here for the Investrio Stock Selector Fund Bull and Bear Market Indicators Report for the week ending May 21, 2010.

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Click here for upcoming IPOs.

Lead Fund Manager
Investrio

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Investors & Friends:

Here's a summary of our investment actions from the past week.

Option Strategies - Put Options

1) Intel Corp (Nasdaq: INTC) - We bought Jan '12 $2.50 puts.

Click here for the Investrio Stock Selector Fund Bull and Bear Market Indicators Report for the week ending May 14, 2010.

Click here for the Investrio Stock Selector Fund Watchlist.

Click here for upcoming IPOs.

Lead Fund Manager
Investrio

Etcetera

1) We're bailing out the banks again. French and German banks lent gobs of money to Greece, gaining higher interest on the bonds, but increasing exposure to risky economies. Now we have to bailout the banks so that the European banking system doesn't fail. Where have we heard this line before?

2) MUST HEAR: Panic And Loathing From The S&P 500 Pits.

3) The stock market has been hijacked.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Investors & Friends:

Here's a summary of our investment actions from the past week.

Long Stocks

1) We bought ProShares UltraShort Russell 2000 (NYSE: TWM) on 5/7 @ $20.76.

We continue adding bricks to our wall of shorts. Rather than put more eggs in the short-China basket we're diversifying our short positions. We believe small cap companies will encounter increased pressure given their dependence on credit versus large blue chip companies that have a stash of cash on their balance sheets. The next wave of the credit crisis will unfold, and small cap companies will be pinched. We're considering shorting financial companies but it's not yet ripe. However it's just a matter of time before it becomes clear to put the short on the financial companies again.

2) We bought iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund (NYSE: TLT) on 5/7 @ $97.38. We bought TLT to hedge, short-term, some of our exposure to TBT. TBT recently broke through a significant support level.

Click here for the Investrio Stock Selector Fund Bull and Bear Market Indicators Report for the week ending May 7, 2010.

Click here for the Investrio Stock Selector Fund Watchlist.

Click here for upcoming IPOs.

Lead Fund Manager
Investrio

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Investors & Friends:

Here's a summary of our investment actions from the past week.

Short Strategies

1) We bought more ProShares UltraShort FTSE Xinhua China 25 (NYSE: FXP) on 4/30 @ $40.30.

Click here for the Investrio Stock Selector Fund Bull and Bear Market Indicators Report for the week ending April 30, 2010.

Click here for the Investrio Stock Selector Fund Watchlist.

Click here for upcoming IPOs.

Lead Fund Manager
Investrio