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- S&P 500's Loss Can Be Your Gain
- Sean Hannon submits: A well-known trading strategy involves buying companies before they are added to the S&P 500 and shorting companies that are being removed from the index. Since so much money is invested either directly in index funds or with money managers who attempt to mirror the...
- External links 2009-01-06
- First Solar is Set to Shine
- Sean Hannon submits: As I describe each week in my newsletter EPIC Insights, reading charts is often more art than science. If you put groups of analysts together in a room and ask them to determine patterns from a package of charts expect to hear a plethora of responses....
- External links 2009-01-20
- The Hidden Leverage of Oil ETFs
- Sean Hannon submits: Financial innovation drives markets. Over the years, we have seen investments that had been the sole province of professionals adapted for retail investors. Among the more popular have been inverse ETFs and commodity-based ETFs. These new tools may be welcome, but we must watch for unintended...
- External links 2009-02-04
- First Solar: Expecting a Sell-Off
- Sean Hannon submits: Four weeks ago in my weekly newsletter EPIC Insights, I highlighted First Solar FSLR as an ideal stock to buy. I felt the markets were preparing to move higher and that solar companies would be beneficiaries of the Obama administration's efforts to foster an alternative energy...
- External links 2009-02-16
- First Solar: An Option Trade Strategy for the Earnings Announcement
- Sean Hannon submits: Volatility, a proxy for risk, is the lifeblood of options markets. When volatility is high, markets are uncertain of the direction of stock movement and option prices increase. One event that always leads to an increase in option prices is an earnings announcement. ...
- External links 2009-02-24
- An Oil / Gold Reflation Pair Trade
- Sean Hannon submits: When making recommendations in my weekly newsletter EPIC Insights, I have always been wary of the risk profile. The portfolio has done extremely well during sell-offs and rallies and I have no interest in surrendering gains by blindly diving into untested ideas. For that reason, one...
- External links 2009-04-21
- The Bear Case for ConocoPhillips
- Sean Hannon submits: Commodity markets have been very strong lately. Nowhere is that more evident than in the price of oil. Since bottoming below $34 in mid-February, oil has more than doubled in four months, and energy companies have done very well. A case in point is...
- External links 2009-06-09
- Time to Exit Oil/Gold Pair Trade
- Sean Hannon submits: When making recommendations in EPIC Insights, I always want to maximize my gains. This leads me on a quest to find mispriced securities that can be purchased at low levels and then sold at higher prices in the future. However, I am equally concerned with risk....
- External links 2009-06-10
- Now Is a Good Time to Consider an Oil/Gold Pair Trade
- Sean Hannon submits: When making recommendations in my weekly newsletter EPIC Insights, I have always been wary of our risk profile. The portfolio has done extremely well during sell-offs and rallies and I have no interest in surrendering gains by blindly diving into untested ideas. For that reason, one...
- External links 2009-09-02
- Why XTO Energy Is Overvalued
- Sean Hannon submits: Determining the fair value of an asset is both art and science. While traditional metrics such as Price/Earnings (PE), Price/Book PB, and dividend discount models offer the appearance of precise mathematical answers, these methods are widely used and do not often provide investors an...
- External links 2009-09-30
- Covering My XTO Short
- Sean Hannon submits: There are many reasons to enter into a trade. Whether the impetus is a belief about long-term value or focuses on short-term price movements, people arrive at investment decisions in different manners. Seeing no need to delve into the merits of each investor's decision-making process, I...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Why I'm Exiting Oil/Gold Pair Trade
- Sean Hannon submits: Wall Street lends itself to clever aphorisms. One of the more popular is that you cannot go broke taking profits. That may be true, but you also cannot generate great gains if you take small profits each time they become available. We must push...
- External links 2009-12-16
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