by Ian Cooper | Jan 12, 2015 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
This is a new weekly update from Inside Value Trader. We simply want to keep you up to date, and issue reminders on recent buy and exit activity. Also, please note our next webinar will be held January 23, 2015. Please stay tuned for times and e-mailed reminders....
by Ian Cooper | Jan 9, 2015 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
2014 was a good year. We took some hits along the way. But overall we did quite well. While we set up for some new picks, we need to ditch some of the dogs we hold. Each should have worked out much better than they did. If you still hold the BABA January 97.50 put,...
by Ian Cooper | Jan 7, 2015 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
If this rally has legs – which I’m not sure it does – volatility will reverse off lofty highs of 34 in a hurry. The last time it fell from this level, it plummeted from just above 34 to 28 in no time at all. In fact, we profited from that last reversal with gains on...
by Ian Cooper | Jan 1, 2015 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
This trade may carry near-term risk. But the reward far outweighs risk at this point. Natural gas has collapsed. Every one hates it. But no one is paying attention. Investors are nervous reading there’s still no reason to buy. But they’re not paying attention to the...
by Ian Cooper | Dec 22, 2014 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
The Dow is challenging a double top. If this fails, we could easily re-test the 50-day moving average 500 points below. I’m recommending that you exit the XIV stock trade, as well as the VXX March 32 put to protect gains should that happen. Since this is a holiday...
by Ian Cooper | Dec 19, 2014 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
If you’re happy with current gains on the VXX March 32 put, and the XIV stock trade, consider exiting half of both today. Thankfully, we got into these a day before the Dow rallied 400 points yesterday, sparked by massively oversold technical reads. I’m recommending...
by admin | Dec 17, 2014 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
Always keep an eye on volatility. When the market swan dives, as it did recently, volatility as measured by the Volatility Index (VXX) rockets higher. When the market recovers as it’s beginning to do, volatility snaps back, and begins to revert to mean. Unbelievably,...
by Ian Cooper | Dec 9, 2014 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
There’s good news and bad news. The bad news is we need to close out the SLV December 18 call, as well as the second half of the Janus December 15 put. The first half of the Janus put was closed with gains of 28%. These should have worked out much better than they...
by Ian Cooper | Dec 8, 2014 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
Other than the overall market, one of the most ridiculously overbought stocks is Wal-Mart (WMT), setting up for a fall similar to what we saw with KB Home and Lennar over the last week. MACD is topping out and reversing. RSI is in the process of pulling back from...
by Ian Cooper | Dec 5, 2014 | Rapid Retirement System, Trade Alerts
Knowing just how bizarre this market really is, consider selling to close the second half of the KB Home (KBH) April 17 put for gains of up to 79% on the second half. The first half was exited for gains of up to 53% on December 2, 2014. Since recommendation, the...
