Last Friday, we issued a recommendation to buy CSCO Puts at $1.09.  The July expiration, 20 Puts to be exact.  They’re now trading over $3.00  That’s about 200% in less than a week.  And they are by no means done.

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Here are some more recommendations from last week:

Regards,

Stock Barometer

Investment Research Group, Inc.

Founder – www.stockbarometer.com

Here’s a list of our top call options to buy now:

top call options to buy now

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Regards,

Stock Barometer

Investment Research Group, Inc.

This morning, our Stock Options Speculator issued an alert with our top options trades for this bounce.

Stock Options Speculator identifies the next likely move in the market (up or down) and then scours the various indices and ETFs to identify the top 10 options plays in each – giving you the highest probability of profit.

This service is designed to offer versatility for a variety of options traders.  We group our recommendations by the indices they are in, so you can pick the index you want to trade in.  For example, if you want more volatility, pick from the Nasdaq list.  If you want more stability, go with the S&P or pick an index option.

Each list is sorted by our best pick (top) to our 10th best pick (bottom).   If you can only trade one option, pick from the top.

Here is part of that list.

Top call options nasdaq 100

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Here’s something to consider with your SFL Trade.

SFL got caught up in the market’s correction, but remained at support.  Technically, it could be forming a bullish wedge, which means some good upside ahead.  Here’s the reason for this update.

As I was writing this morning’s Stock Options Speculator, where we recommend the top 10 option plays for the Nasdaq 10, S&P 500, Russell 2000, Indexes and Overall Market, SFL showed up on my list.  So here’s a chance to buy some call options for the ride up – if you happen to play options.  Here’s the list:

top 10 call options russell 2000

What this list shows is that with a 11.11% move in SFL, this option will return 100%.  Sure, there are higher ranked options on this list, but I wanted to show you as I believe SFL has room to run higher here – at least 11.11%…

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Regards,

Stock Barometer

As the markets could ‘sell the news’ on the resolution of Osama, it’s created a lot of uncertainty.  This uncertainty can result in selling.  Here is one set of our recommendations for today’s Stock Options Speculator newsletter.  If you’re interested in getting our top 10 recommendations for the Nasdaq 100, S&P 500, Rusell 2000 and Market ETFs, click here:

Stock Options Speculator

stock options speculator

Here is today’s focus technical indicator – the put call chart:

put call chart

Options data is great for showing you buy and sell signals – on a contrarian basis.  As a mechanical engineer, I’m always looking at the stock market from a kinetic and potential energy view.  As fear builds, the put call ratio climbs.  This is shown above on an inverted scale – so fear builds as the market goes lower, and at some point, fear is so big, that it has to unwind.  The market will tend to advance as fear unwinds.

And this put call chart is just one indicator of 160+ that we follow and advise upon.

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Are you looking for a option qqq trade?  Here’s our recommendation on trading the qqq option:

option qqqq

option qqqq

This option qqq option recommendation comes from a recommendation in our Daily Stock Barometer.

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stock market timing (using the Daily Stock Barometer)

The key to trading qqq option on any index or stock is stock market timing.

There are hundreds of different ways to time the market.  Our advisory shares over 160 of these indicators with our clients.  Here’s a list of some of them:

One consideration with all my indicators is that I try to adust the scale so that they move with the market.  This will give you a better understanding of the relative correlation or lack thereof.

After correlation, the next consideration is level and direction.  If you have high correlation, and the indicator is moving up, then the market is likely to move higher.  If you have a buy signal (turn higher) coming off a relatively low level, then you could be on the verge of a significant move higher.

QQQ –QQQ Buy/Sell Spread Momentum Chart

The spread/momentum indicators assist in your trading of the QQQ (Nasdaq 100), GLD (Gold), US Dollar, USO (Oil) and TLT (20 year bonds).  They are tuned to deliver short and intermediate term buy and sell signals.  The level, direction, and position to the zero line are keys in interpreting these indicators.  For example, direction determines mode and a buy signal ‘above zero’ is more bullish than a buy signal ‘below zero’.

Ud – QQQ/SPY Up Days less Down Days

The QQQ is the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) for the Nasdaq 100 and the SPY is the ETF for the S&P 500.

This indicator shows the 9 day moving average of the cumulative up and down market days for the SPY and QQQ on a chart with the SPY.

GLD – Gold ETF Buy/Sell Spread Momentum Chart

GLDli – Gold Leading Indicator Chart

Rsg – GLD vs. XAU Relative Strength

Rsg(2) – Gold vs. US Dollar Relative Strength

Xau – XAU Buy/Sell Spread Momentum Chart

DOLLAR – US Dollar Buy/Sell Spread Momentum Chart

Udg – XAU Up Days less Down Days

BOND – Bond Spread Momentum Indicator

Udb – TLT Up Days less Down Days – 8 Day Moving Average

Ud2 – TLT Up Days Less Down Days (vs. SPY) Inverted Scale

OIL – Buy/Sell Spread Momentum Chart

udV – VXO (volatility) & Nasdaq Up Volume less down volume

ts – Stock Barometer ‘Spread’ Indicator (short and mid term)

lts – Stock Barometer Long Term Spread Indicator

test – Test Chart of 12 variables

adv – Nasdaq Advancing Stocks

t2o – Old Barometer w/ Nas Advance Decline

Tv – Oscillator III

Tv2 -  Short Term Oscillators III (with sub oscillators)

Nh(2) – Nasdaq Yearly New Highs

DSB –  The Daily Stock Barometer

T2L – 5 & 13 Day Stock Barometer

T2B – Nasdaq Stock Barometer

uDsb – Nasdaq Barometer Up Days less Down Days

t2t2 – Barometer – Fibonacci Moving Averages

BE – Nasdaq Barometer Efficiency

New –  Buy/Sell Barometer – Various indicators

P2 – CBOE Put/Call Ratio

Pc1 – Put Call Ratio

Ov – Equity and Index Option Volume

Ip – Index Options Put Call Ratio

EP – Equity Options Put Call Ratio

Ps – SPX vs. SPY Put/Call Ratio

Pv – VIX Put/Call Ratio (& Open Interest)

Pvoi – VIX Open Interest Put/Call Ratio

Pq – 5-Day QQQQ Put Call Ratio

Vv – The VXO Thrust Indicator

EIOVR – Equity to Index Option Volume Ratio

Vix – VIX/VXO & VXN

V2 – VXO 5/13

V3 – VXO Spread

V4 – VXN Momentum

A – Nyse Combined Arms

A2 – NYSE Arms

Tk2 – Tick High/Low/Close

TL – Nyse Tick Lows

Th – Nyse Tick Highs

Tvol – Tick Spread Thrust

NA – Nasdaq 5-day arms

NaH – Nasdaq Arms H/L/C

Nt2 – Nasdaq Tick H/L/C

Nth – Nasdaq Tick Highs

Ntl – Nasdaq Tick Lows

Db – Nasdaq Cumulative Breadth

Brc – Nasdaq Breadth ROC

Dvb – Nasdaq Cumulative Volume

Vrc – Nasdaq Volume ROC

Rsi – SPY/QQQ Rsi

RSI(2) – SPY/QQQ RSI Inverse

Rsi3 – QQQ/SPY RSI

nTrc – Nasdaq Tick ROC

dec – Nasdaq Declines

adr – Nasdaq ADR/ADV-Ratio

ad3 – Nas Breadth Spread

ad – MA Adv – Decl

Zw – Variation on breadth

Vad – MA Adv Vol – Decl Vol

N1 – Nasdaq Comp TI

VXe – VXN Efficiency

N2 – Nasdaq Comp MTI

Hl – 5-day New Highs – New Lows

New2 – Composite Market Sentiment Indicator

Dhl – Cumulative New Highs/New Lows

Nhl – New High/New Low Indicator

Nh – Nasdaq Yearly Highs – 4 year

Nl – Nasdaq Yearly Lows  – 4 year

Nl2 – Nasdaq Yearly Lows (Log Scale)

This is just one data base – of our 2 – the second data base is geared towards the NYSE and delves deeper into gold and some of the sentiment polling data.

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stock market timing (using the Daily Stock Barometer)

 

Here are our top 10 put options plays for the Nasdaq 100 QQQQ Options.

Nasdaq 100 QQQQ Options

Top 10 Stock Options for Nasdaq 100

Top 10 Stock Options for Nasdaq 100

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If you’re bearish on the market, this is something you should consider:

QQQQ Put Call Ratio

QQQQ Put Call Ratio

This is from my morning Daily Stock Barometer article.   To sign up, click here:

Daily Stock Barometer

 

If you’re trading QQQQ, and you’re trading options, then you need to read this.

First, what is the QQQQ?

QQQQ Powershares is the trading proxy (aka ETF) for the Nasdaq 100.  QQQQ Trading is very popular.  In fact, I’ve been advising clients in trading qqqq for several years.  And it remains the most popular trading vehicle.

There is a lot to know when you trade options.  Here are our option recommendations for trading QQQQ:

Nasdaq QQQQ Trading Stock Options

Trading QQQQ

In the above image, you can see what CALLS we are recommending to play the advance in the QQQQ.