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- Aclend

Thanks, Phil. I really appreciate your sentiment and commitment! Just want to thank you for what you do for all of us.

- JBaker

Phil fantastic call on the markets… I owe you BIG…thanks and have a great weekend!

- Kustomz

Brilliant covering of the arcane, the profane , but never the mundane! Easy to understand the reason for your huge following, Phil, and why you have become a must read on my daily agenda. Please accept my complete appreciation.

- Seeking Truth

A truly great website with a lot of information for investors. Whether you are a novice, seasoned, or a professional there is a lot to be gained about stock options and options trading from this very informative website.

- ZKatkin

Very nice in and out on those USO puts again, easy way to get the subscription covered in just a couple of hours. Thanks again Phil and everyone here contributing to such intelligent and informative discussion! I have wasted countless hours reading "professional newsletters" and message board blather over the years. Have learned a great deal here in a very short time. I have sent out a number of invites to friends and family for stockworld!

- Eyezz

Hi Mr. Phill, I am a Venezuelan lady tormented by our politicall situation, who use to be an emerging market trader, and many other executive positins in the finance "arena" and now is trying to built a new concept and service for asset management for clients on my own, I am in the trial and learning process at the moment, I also invest for some friends and myself. I want to congratulate you , because reading you fill my days with a touch of irony (besides ,of course the spectacular market insight) that happens to give me energy, its a joy the remarks and comments even the pictures used, sometimes I just read it for the fun, I completily agree with your thouhts, though we belong to totally different cultures and enviorements and certanly realities Your readings is like a little hand helping me out to be in the market and fight for my devastated country where every single day we looe inches and yards of liberty. You shoul try to writte a book!

- Mindeyes

That was a quick double on the DIA calls. trailing stop in place.

- Kwan

I have been trading for quite a few years and in good years made about 25%. After joining PSW, I followed closely the PSW strategy and my trading profit for this year is close to 70% to date. For fun, I like to mix in a few "Hail Mary" plays that really worked out well, but overall the simpler Buy/Write strategy, as presented by Phil so often, created the majority of the profit.

- Gel1

GLD I took out my callers and rolled down my longs this morning, woo hoo!

- Ephmen85

Just closed out my V put for 50% in 24 hours thanks Phil!

- Humvee

Thanks Phil another great week of guiding us!

- Steven Parker

1,000% on SKF - It was a freakin' monster into the center field bleachers! I saw it play out live and squawked it from the StockTwits ID which 14k people follow: Home run trade of the week @philstockworld just knocked cover off ball w $SKF puts. http://bit.ly/piBL Great trade bud!

- Phil Pearlman - StockTwits

WOW, glad I went bearish… Phil, thanks for the help on the QID calls yesterday, I turned it into a partial cover rolling down to the Feb 52s selling the 55s 1/2 covered. Sold 1/2 and now lowered my cost basis to $4.38 on the $52s (fully covered).

- Texasmotion

I have been a member of Phil's site for three years and counting, and my advice is that all investing takes time. There are o shortcuts, no secret way to riches. Same with Phil's site- you need time and patience to start benefitting fully from his advice. But it is often spot on and also very useful, especially to me as I try to keep a level head in this turbulent stock market environment.

- Jordan

Phil - I'm with you just little bit longer than a month and you can not imagine how happy I am now, and not just because my P/L improved ( and I'm sure that it will be even better), but I found that the worst thing in trader's carrier is a LONELINESS. Here I found so many bright good guys, I looked for this service for years. THANK YOU AND TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF BECAUSE I PLAN TO STAY HERE AND RIDE THIS CREASY MARKET WITH YOU FOR ANOTHER 20-30 YEARS

- Tchayipov

Joined last year and and started profitably trading options thanks to everything I have learned here. THANK YOU!!

- OnWisconsin

Phil: I have 263 positions - 70% in options ( balance stocks) in three portfolios with a value of 3 mil. YTD profit is about $750,000. Thanks!

- Gel1

I picked up one of your recommended Gold plays, the July ABX 30s and sold the Feb 35s, which are now mostly intrinsic value. Is it time to roll these to the March 37.50s, or should I wait this spike out?

- Bill Hoffman

Phil - I just referred 10 people. Last week was a 50% gainer for me. There are companies that want to sell mentoring service for thousands of dollars. This is far better of a deal with very good advice.

- Steve

Phil – Not that you dont usually, but you have DEFINITELY earned your money this week. THe recommendations have been PERFECT. Selling into the initial excitement (MULTIPLE TIMES), hedges, everything. Im reading this when I get home from work and want to cry b/c I cant trade at work! I might have to start getting up at 3 AM though to catch those trades bc youre killing it then too! May you and yours have a blessed weekend!

- Jromeha

By the way thank you Phil for the DNDN idea. 3x till this morning and will 4x my small investment by next OE THANKS !!!!

- Microflux

Thx Phil. Lightly moving in the bullish direction. Took PFE for $14.35 and sold the Jan 11 C/P for $2.85 giving me a net entry below Mar 09 low. And I bought back those calls on BTU and JPM I asked about the other day and am leaving them uncovered for now, so feeling better. Still just learning the rhythm. In the three months I have been using your system, my little portfolio is up 9.9%, so not only am I learning, but I am APPLYING that knowledge, and it's paying off. Thanks.

- Hoss

I am a Registered Nurse, so is my wife. We work hard to take care of seven kids that are the joy of our lives. The cost for a basic membership is ALOT from our our monthly budget of spending and saving…but well worth it! Phil has allowed me to really ramp up the savings we put away for our children's college funds and our retirement.

- David

I took $2 (up 133%) and ran on those USO puts, quite a bit more than the 20 you played in the $25KP. Thank you once again for turning a bad market week into a great personal week. You will be happy to know I am back to cashy and cautious with a few of your favorite longs into the weekend. Thanks to Phil, JRW and all the members who share their knowledge here.

- Dennis

I have followed along with your commentary and alerts and have been flabbergasted at your quick analytical skills and your journalistic skills to explain it clearly. In a little over three weeks I have cleared almost 1000.00 dollars and got an intensive education at the same time. I would like to immediately upgrade my membership.

- TokyoLife

Fed days are fun! Just for grins I decided to see how much money I could make in two clicks. I bought DIA calls right when the surge started and then sold them the minute they hit my account. Net gain of 20% in 20 seconds. Can't do that very often…

- MrMocha

Phil: I am always able to figure out your trades, including the rational when put in the right context of previous comments, etc. Keep doing what you're doing. It is much appreciated, and invaluable. Your hit rate of successful trades has been very high in my 1.5 months as a member, but even more importantly is your teaching of how to repair and DD positions that haven't gone your way yet. As with most members, we all have our ‘pet' trading interests, and learning how to think about trading is much more important than a specific trade, which could see the conditions behind it change an hour later. This is the classic case, of ‘Teach us to Fish', rather than just giving us a fish once in a while. Thank you!

- Neverworkagain

Thank God for Phil. A few months ago (April) I didn´t even know what hedging was, and someone recommended I should check out some of Phil´s plays, especially on the retirement portfolio. When I first started to read it, none of it made a blind bit of sense to me, but I stuck with it and gradually began to work through some of the trades to see how it worked. Now I am putting on 5:1 SPY backspreads combined with bear put spreads, entering and leaving positions after consulting the VIX, and engaging in other esoteric maneuvers that are keeping my portfolio above water.

- jmm1951

Phil — gotta thank you for your advice this week, and especially today. I took many aspects of your advice this morning, with all of my shorts -- being prepared on the short side, selling into intial excitement, taking the money and running, not being greedy. I also made money on the your /QM and /YM calls. It used to be I would be terrified of weeks like this one. Now, it feels somewhat comfortable, for want of a better word.

- Escohen5

Archive for July, 2011

Weekend Reading – Waiting to get Screwed

by Phil - July 31st, 2011 4:24 pm

Still no deal?

This is amazing, isn’t it? I was reminded in Member Chat this weekend that Eisenhower (a Republican, by the way) once said: "Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt, a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." Unfortunately, the Stupids are currently holding our Nation hostage and it looks like the very weak-willed Democrats are going to give into their demands.

Unlike Obama, President Roosevelt was proud to say "Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!" These days, the Democrats are in the same beds and wrapped up in the same, stained sheets as the Republicans and Banksters and they are all willing to sell the people of this country down the river in exchange for 4 more years at the head table. A big difference these days is that a Congressman doesn’t need to be in office for life to get rich – Here’s a great list of Democrats and Republicans who have more than doubled their net worth in just 4 years of service – here’s a good video on the subject.

These are the Congresspeople who were PAID to look the other way while our economy was destroyed and were PAID to vote for TARP, stimulus and countless other programs that favor their Corporate Masters. So it is true, trickle-down economics does work – it trickles from the Corporations that make Billions to the Congresspeople who make millions, but that’s about as far as it goes unless you happen to work for the Congresspeople, and then you may be able to pick up some scraps of your own.

Now they prepare to sell us down the river again, engineering another crisis that should never happen (and there was no reason for BSC or LEH to fail at the time either – NOT giving them Billions cost this country Trilllions AND THEY KNEW IT WOULD HAPPEN!). Here we are though, just 3 years later, entertaining the possibility of letting…

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Things That Make You Go Hmmm – Such As Keeping It Real

by Zero Hedge - July 31st, 2011 2:43 pm

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

Grant Williams summarizes: “So, keeping it real, what happens now? Well, the debt ceiling will get raised – most likely this weekend – and the usual photo-op of sycophants cheering and applauding behind a podium will be all over the news, but the raise will be just another step on the road to financial ruin for the United States if it continues to layer fresh debt upon existing debt as a way to solve its problems and turns to printing presses and raised ceilings as the balm of choice. In this kick-the-can culture we now live in since the events of 2008, it’s never that difficult to figure out WHAT the powers-that-be will do (simple: whatever short-term fix involves the least short-term pain to banks and to their own chances of reelection), but it seems to be getting harder to ascertain WHEN they will do it. This is all well and good, except sooner or later they will wake up and find that the adults have decided enough is enough and they’ll vote with their money…So tell me – and keep it real – would YOU lend money to a country with THOSE debt dynamics that is being run by a bunch of incompetent, bickering grandstanders if it DIDN’T possess the world’s reserve currency? Me either.”

Full Things That Make You Go Hmmm, July 31 edition (pdf)

Hmmm Jul 31 2011

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Filed Under Exponential

by Zero Hedge - July 31st, 2011 1:37 pm

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

By now everyone has seen this, as it has been posted on Zero Hedge about n+1 times. And if the haven’t, they should.

They should also see this. We will shortly update where this chart will be by the 2012 election, somewhere around 120% of GDP.

Source: NYT

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Goldman’s Jim O’Neill “Go On President Obama And Congress; Give Us A Nice Pleasant Summer Surprise!”

by Zero Hedge - July 31st, 2011 1:08 pm

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

While there are some undertones of caution in the latest letter from the head of Goldman’s worst performing group (“I suspect the reason why the bond market has rallied and the Dollar and equities have fallen, is because there is going to be a budget deal, which the markets worry will weaken the cyclical GDP growth outlook further“), his bottom line (literally) is precisely what everyone on Wall Street, and everyone else who writes rants against responsible fiscal management (wait, wasn’t Congress responsible 1 year ago? or two years ago? No of course not. It became an emergency a week ago) thinks. And it is as follows: “Go on President Obama and Congress; give us a nice pleasant Summer surprise!” Indeed, when you cut out all the hollow rhetoric of all those whose livelihood depends on the status quo^TM and on “borrowing” from the future (cold fusion will certainly help with our energy problems one day… so will the tooth fairy), this is what it is all about.

From Goldman’s Jim O’Neill

PRAYING FOR SOMETHING.

Did you manage to distract yourself from the US budget fiasco this past week? Or did you spend the whole week wondering about what might happen if the US doesn’t pass its debt ceiling on August 2nd? I had a visit from a really smart hedge fund from Outer Space, and the CIO said that he expected US Treasuries to fall significantly as a result of Congress’ inability to reach a deal and the US being downgraded. I told him that while it seemed very sound reasoning, here on Planet Earth, things don’t necessarily pan out that way. In fact, Treasuries would be the major beneficiary as investors adopted a “risk off” mentality and sold higher risk assets instead. Not to confuse my interesting visitor from Outer Space, I did tell him this didn’t apply to the Dollar, which would fall because investors would be far happier owning the Euro despite all its apparent problems. While the US might have a large budget deficit and the global benchmark was on the verge of losing its AAA credit rating, US Treasuries were a better alternative than anything else. Not surprisingly, my new CIO friend decided that he should rapidly disappear. He got in his spaceship and flew away.

I shall…

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Key Macro Catalysts In The Upcoming Week

by Zero Hedge - July 31st, 2011 12:46 pm

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

Goldman’s Themistoklis Fiotakis summarizes the main events in the upcoming week, which will likely see a very short term bout of buying frenzy on the debt ceiling deal, following by the realization that America can kiss fiscal stimulus goodbye and that real GDP is set to contract over the next quarter to a negative print as the last benefits from QE2 vanish and are replaced by nothing. Also, with the upcoming weekly earning focusing on financial companies as announced yesterday, there will be little help from the only bright spot in the so-called economy, especially with the flashing red sign of the July Nonfarm Payroll Print (consensus +95K, Goldman +50K, even LaSagna +50K) due on Friday. The half life of Europe’s second bailout was under 5 days. We give America about the same.

From Goldman:

Three key themes dominated price action last week: First, the US debt ceiling debate emerged at the forefront of market attention as the Senate and the House of Representatives were not able to reach a solution to raise the US debt ceiling and commit to a credible plan for budget cuts. Uncertainty remains in place as we approach August 2nd, a date that has been suggested as the deadline by which US legislators need to reach a compromise. That said, there may be some room for negotiations to continue for a few more days after that.

Second, rising Italian yields reinforced underlying market nervousness over peripheral European bond market trends. 10y BTP yields rose by 52bp last week on the back of market talk about the risk of a change in the leadership of the Ministry of Finance and the market realization that the EFSF would not be in place to intervene in bond markets until the amendments on its functions are voted for in local parliaments. Risk appetite will be the most important driver of Italian yields in the days ahead, though it would be interesting to watch the Italian GDP release later this week.

Third, US data came in on balance on the soft side with US GDP, the Chicago PMI, and Durable Goods Orders all surprising to the downside. Bright spots were the ongoing strength in German retail spending and labour markets, as well as a positive surprise in initial claims. The coming week will be key…

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Smoking Some Bad Debt Dope?

by Zero Hedge - July 31st, 2011 12:03 pm

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Leo Kolivakis.

Via Pension Pulse.

All week, I’ve been watching the circus and clowns in Washington make fools out of themselves. The “debt ceiling drama” is annoying me. More smoke & mirrors to scare retail investors away while the big guns load up on risk assets. Let me go over a few key points to convince you to keep buying the dips hard and ignore the debt boogeyman which permeates our mass media every day.

First, take the time to read Peter Coy’s article which appears on yahoo Finance (provided by Bloomberg Businessweek), Why the Debt Crisis Is Even Worse Than You Think. I quote the following:

The language we use is part of the problem. Every would-be budget balancer in Washington should read “On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language,” a brilliant 2006 paper by economists Laurence J. Kotlikoff of Boston University and Jerry Green of Harvard University (available online from the National Bureau of Economic Research). The authors write that accountants and economists have something to learn from Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity, about how measured quantities depend on one’s frame of reference. Terms such as “deficit” and “tax,” they write, “represent numbers in search of concepts that provide the illusion of meaning where none exists.”

The national debt itself is one such Einsteinian (that is, squishy) concept. The Treasury Dept.’s punctilious daily accounting of it — $14,342,841,083,049.67 as of July 25, of which just under $14.3 trillion is subject to the ceiling and about $10 trillion is held by the public — gives the impression that it’s as real and tangible as the Washington Monument. But what to include in that sum is ultimately a political choice. For instance, the national debt held by the public doesn’t include America’s obligation to make Social Security payments to future generations of the elderly. Why not?

Suppose that instead of paying Social Security payroll taxes, working people used that amount of money to buy bonds from the Social Security Administration, which they would redeem in their retirement years. In such an arrangement, the current and future cash flows would be identical, but because of a simple labeling change the reported debt held by the public would skyrocket. That example alone should generate a certain queasiness about

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Round Up Of This Morning’s Key Political Soundbites

by Zero Hedge - July 31st, 2011 12:02 pm

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

With a debt ceiling deal now a given and purely a matter of dotting i’s and crossing t’s, potentially pending a several day debt “breathing room” extension to be approved by Obama, whose TV appearance we expect shortly to provide a conclusion to this “grand compromise” farce, here are some of the key soundbites from the three primary constituents as of their media appearances this morning.

SENATE MINORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL, A REPUBLICAN, ON CNN:

“We’re very close to being in a position where hopefully I can recommend to my members they take a serious look at it and support it.”
“We’re hoping that we’ll have a significant percentage of them (Republican lawmakers) support it.”
“What we’re looking at is a $3 trillion package, a combination of discretionary cuts. Both cuts now, caps over the next 10 years to hold spending in line. And then we’re also going to be voting on a constitutional amendment to balance the budget.”
“This is a process that could get him (President Barack Obama) past the election. We’re voting on the combinations that would get us there.”
“The trigger issue has been what’s locked us in the extensive discussions … Now I think we’re back in the right place.”

SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER, NO. 3 SENATE DEMOCRAT, ON CNN:

“There is no final agreement. No one has signed off on a final agreement. So it’s premature to talk about any specifics.”
“But default is far less of a possibility now than it was even a day ago because the leaders are talking and talking in a constructive way.”
“It seems quite clear that the debt ceiling will be raised enough so that we won’t have to come back to this until 2013.”
“Certainly, the enforcement mechanism is one of the key issues that is still being debated and it’s one of the issues that’s made this process go on for so long.”

WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER GENE SPERLING, ON FOX:

“There is no question we’re approaching the final hour. And there is no question, as the president has said repeatedly, if there is a will, there are multiple ways to get there.”
“Here is the key: whatever that enforcement mechanism is, it has to give both sides an incentive

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Highlights From This Morning’s “Meet The Press”

by Zero Hedge - July 31st, 2011 11:32 am

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

Below are the key clips from this morning’s Meet The Press which is devoted exclusively to proponents of the status quo^TM, whose entire argument boils down to the syllogistic: “cut spending yes… but not today…never today” In fact, it is best to make any cuts the next administration’s problem. So assuming Obama gets reelected, and there is another debt ceiling hike, which there will have to be, it means about $7 trillion on top of the currently debated $3 trillion, whoever inherits this mess from Obama (who in turn inherited his mess from Bush, who in turn inherited his mess from Clinton, and so on), will have $24 trillion debt to deal with on day 1, with about $16-17 trillion of GDP. And that person will have to cut spending? What idiot would want that job? Anyway, we fully expect the paid government workers from the rating agencies to shortly upgrade the US to AAA+ on renewed growth prospects courtesy of 140% debt to GDP in 5 years… and that excludes the $7 trillion in off balance sheet GSE debt.

Summary highlights:

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Interview with White House advisor David Plouffe:

Plouffe part 2:

Plouffe part 3:

Plouffe part 4:

Plouffe part 5

Brokaw, Granholme, Labrador and… Jim “Buy Bear Stearns Cramer” ???

Brokaw, Granholme, Labrador and Cramer – part 2

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Disorderly Conduct

by Zero Hedge - July 31st, 2011 11:04 am

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Miles Kendig.

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Debt Ceiling 101, Santelli Sounds Off

January 27th, 2012 12:55 pm

Courtesy of ZeroHedge. View original post here.

Submitted by Tyler Durden.

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ECRI Recession Call: Growth Index Contraction Eases Further

January 27th, 2012 12:35 pm

Courtesy of Doug Short.

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Average Age of U.S. Vehicles Hits Record 10.8 Years

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Research in Motion Surging after Prem Watsa Stake

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Courtesy of Benzinga.

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Biotech Investing for 2012

January 18th, 2012 1:09 am

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Finding new and exciting Biotech companies that target novel mechanisms is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Sure there are many companies working on cutting edge science, but investing in those companies to reap the rewards of their work is a very dangerous game. More often than not, companies fail because the mechanism does not pan out, the compound(s) do not have pharmacokinetics (get into the body or last very long in the body), or an adverse event happens that knocks years off a development timeline. In addition, the stock can be manipulated by market makers so investors don't know which way is up. I approach investing in biotechs as a long term prospect. I continue to like our current portfolio of biotech companies (join in chat for many of those plays), and we continually add/subtract shares and sell/buy options on ...

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