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I traded with Phil for approximately three years, and consistently averaged 80% returns yearly... some of which was due to my skills as a trader, but much was a direct result of what I learned as a member of Phil's site.... both from Phil, and the many talented traders that hang out there. Phil... if you are reading along... thanks, again for the approximately $ 3 mil I made tagging along with you.... in order to make you feel good for the work you did... I gave the government 50% of it all, so you made your contribution....

1234Gel
Phil/ I hope the next 5 year bear market will be as much fun and as profitable as this 5 year bull market. For those who survived 2008/2009, and who imbibed the wisdom of PSW, what a time it has been. Good to have you by my side. I think you are selling yourself short – you need to triple your prices :)

Winston
Happy holidays to all members of PSW. Just completed my 6th year and still my favorite site to read. Thank you all for your contributions and support especially you, Phil!

DClark41
Phil - I caught the interview…. terrific!. Your host recommended that the viewers should " go to your site, as you will be entertained ". That is for sure if you consider entertainment is laughing while you read, learn and make unbelievable leveraged profits that you never thought were possible. That is my kind of entertainment !

Gel1
The wonderful resource that Phil has created for us and nourished by its members is so powerful in what it can teach us going forward, but also what we can learn from the past. I never say it often enough, but Phil – thanks for all the work you do for us.

Winston
I must add yet another paen to Phil's "cash and short" call, as my TZA shorts are past paying for Similac and Pampers and have now covered all doctors and Mt. Sinai hospital bills for young Charlotte, as TZA took the portfolio up 10%.

Zeroxzero
Phil… My portfolio, in the past few months, has acheived a high degree of stabilization. I've noticed that on up days, down days, even days, it doesn't matter, my portfolio rarely varies more than 2%. And over the long haul it just slowly increases in value. I attribute this not to investment choices, but to style. Thanks to you and others on this site I'm paying close attention to position size, delta neutrality, downside protection, and concentrating on selling premium rather than buying it. I've developed increasing patience, not having to trade daily, or even weekly. I'm concentrating on the finer points of trading, letting the profits come to me, rather than the other way around. I appreciate the help everyone here has given in getting me focused on this principle. I'm pumped!…in a calm sort of way.

Iflantheman
Phil – just wanted to say a sincere thank you for teaching me how to offset, hedge, roll, and not panic. My account is up 10% in the last two weeks, and far from panic, this is becoming great fun. Thanks again,

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

OnWisconsin
I have to say, hands down, this is one of the best educational experiences I've had in my life. I've even gotten my wife (accountant) into the webinars and she wants to master this concept of selling premium and making smart, conservative investment decisions. She'll eventually use this knowledge to manage her clients' wealth and make smart investment choices for them. Bib big thanks Phil!!

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

Ephmen85
I would like to thank Phil and PSW crew for the insight and assistance (even the liberals). In December I initiated long stock positions buying stock, writing calls and puts in AAPL, WFR and CHK (scaling in and out). Over the last week I have been trimming back my positions selling stock and taking out my callers and putters. I am now back to my initial 25% position that I started with in December. However this time, my cost basis on shares AAPL, WFR, and CHK is $0! With money to spare from those positions.

Texasmotion
On Optrader's section yesterday he was asked how he works with AAPL as an investment. He replied that he just ‘plays with the covers'. I've got a separate portfolio where I use primarily this technique over the past 6 months. Up 60% The principles involved are stock selection, patience, patience, using covers to protect profits, rolling covers to maximize premium return, and exiting when covers are gone and stock price is high. Sometimes it's hard to remember where you learn to do this stuff, but much of it is from integrating principles I've learned here with thing I already knew. Thanks for the help on this, Phil and others.

Iflantheman
Phil - I LOVE these futures trades at random hours! I wasnt able to get in on the 612 part but if I had it wouldve been 130$ (2.6%) on a 5k contract in less than 30 minutes. I know you have to sleep, spend time with fam, ect but Im just letting you know that your posts after hours/late at night has made people who followed them a decent chunk of change. Thank you, we appreciate it!

Jromeha
Hey Phil - writing to thank you! First of all, and I know you have heard this a few times form some others - the portfolio updates you have done - with entries and targets and even margin reqs are invaluable! I find myself understanding what is done here IN THEORY most of the time..however, there is a much bigger difference in placing and setting up the hedges properly than just understanding…This has been eye opening for me and Ifeel like I just took a major step in trading during the last week.

Bcfla
TBT - Many thanks, Phil. I join you in your opinion favoring the Jan expirations. That's a great play. I can never thank you enough for what I have gained educationally as well as monitarily. Here it is late Sunday evening and I am able to get world class advice, just by asking for it. I feel like I am staying in a 5 star hotel, and room service is just a telephone call away!

Gel1
There are a lot of us that have been here a long time and we all learn something everyday. Just keep asking questions, there are a lot of smart people here and they are willing to help and then of course, you have Phil.

Jr Mints
I think that Phil is super, I am up 39.3% YTD. Thank you for your kindness and the opportunity to observe Phil from February.

KMisko
Phil, I wanted to thank you for all of your teaching, advice, and guidance. Because of you I don't chase, don't worry about missed chances, and play things much more selectively. Yesterday's /ES and /TF and today /CL are my first futures plays of the month. Thanks Phil. (Out of /TF and /ES yesterday with a nice gain)

Japarikh
I have been a "silent" member for the past year, and am 1,000 hours into the 10K hours of training (The last week is worth at least 500 hours!). Made lots of mistakes and misunderstood quite a few of Phil's calls, … some actually made money when reversed. The chat (Including the politics) is very engaging (Many great minds with international coverage), and a great companion, while nursing a trade gone wrong, through the night. The webinars (despite technical difficulties) are extremely useful. Thanks for your coaching … it has made me a consistently profitable trader, with a better understanding of what I do not know.

Aquila
Phil: Once again thanks for those inciteful comments, and the old links to Sage's portfolio management (I hadn't read before). I'm an experienced stock trader, but over the last 3 or 4 months have come to appreciate options trading here at PSW, and the consistency of your many premium-selling strategies. It is liberating to have to worry less about getting direction right and being able to generate 5% MONTHLY returns with close to delta-neutral positioning. Much appreciated!

Neverworkagain
Gel1…..I've been here 6 months, mostly watching and learning. Lots of smart people on the site and I've learned a lot from Phil and many others. //// Inflan - I have to trump your sentiments regarding the wisdom of the board. I have to thank Phil and the many contruibutors for a 80% profit for 2009. I have learned a lot and am still learning ( even occasionally about political issues - ha! )

Iflantheman & Gel1
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
I am an investor, not a trader. The information at Phil's World is top-notch and always relevant. It is great to see your website thriving.

Prof
GIVE THANKS/PHIL Have not done my 10,000 hours, but a couple of years at PSW, and moved from fishing with a single line to owner of a commercial trawler (metaphorically speaking). Now I fish with many lines. It is amazing when you go over the same information time and time again, eventually it clicks. Like planting trees; being the house, 20% sale items, selling into the excitement. and patience. I just sold an AAPL Jan 12 340/390 BCS financed by the sales of Jan 12 275 Put. The trade was put on one year ago for a net credit and exited five minutes ago for a 49 dollar per contract profit. No point in waiting till opex to see what happens, and I will just sell 10 of those VLO puts to make myself net the round 50. I no longer worry about opex coming as I have adjusted well in time for most positions that go against me. I still make some howlers (RIMM, TBT, TRGT) but I play the percentages and my winners outdistance my losers by many miles. I would never be in this position if it were not for Phil. He is a treasure, pure and simple. The goose that lays the golden egg if we care to listen and practice. Phil, a mighty big thank you.

Winston
Well that was a fun day. Cashed out my GS 140 calls for about 35% profit and my AAPL calls for 38% gain. Not bad for 40 minutes of work. Back to 85% cash.

Singapore Steve
Hey I just did a nice options trade on LL for $800 (50%) gain thanks to this site, so… not bad for my first day! An hour of reading you guys and I already paid for two months subscription! Thank you!

lchu
You guys gotta give it to phil–the voice of reason yesterday, last nite and this morning.

Corleone
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!! How will I ever do anything else in my life that will compare to the wild ride you get trading an ultra etf in the most volatile sector in the stock market the day before option expiration?

Matt1966
WISH TO EXTEND A BIG THANK YOU! I netted about $18,000 on the short Jan puts and the annualized ROI/M is mind boggling! Hope to meet you some day and buy you and your significant other a nice dinner. Best Regards Newt

Newthugger

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History Rhymes with the Dow

by Chart School - October 19th, 2018 5:50 pm

history-rhymes-with-the-dow The next 10 years, or even the next 2 years will not be like any of the years in the past 10. Risk is moving closer and closer to the surface.

More from RTT Tv

Market risks coming to the surface:

1) Higher interest rates.

2) US Congress control.

3) China vs USA in trade.

4) World wide Leverage.

5) World wide liquidity issues.

6) US Pensions.

7) Corporate bond market.

8) Emerging markets.

To name a few.

In the past it was look away, nothing to see here. Well things change, nothing stays the same, such is life.

The point of our video this week: To bet on a massive change in volatility is most likely the easiest bet of all.

Charts in video:

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Will we get spurts of volatility like the above (either up or down), or all at once like below.

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Fundamentals are important, and so is market timing, here at readtheticker.com we believe a combination
of Gann Angles,
Cycles,
Wyckoff and
Ney logic
is the best way to secure better timing than most, after all these methods have been used successfully for 70+ years. To help you applying Richard Wyckoff and Richard Ney logic
a wealth of knowledge is available via our RTT Plus membership.

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Investing Quote…

..”Successful tape reading is a study of force. It requires the ability to judge which side has the greatest of pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side”..

Richard D Wyckoff

…”I always believe that prices move first and fundamentals come second”..

Paul Tudor Jones

..”The key to making money in stocks is not to get scared out of them”

Peter Lynch

..”Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It’s really a great invention and I wouldn’t under-estimate the value of that, but they’re not designed to take care of social needs”..

George Soros

..”If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians”..

Warren Buffett

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Weekly Market Recap Oct 14, 2018

by Chart School - October 15th, 2018 3:16 am

Courtesy of Blain.

Wednesday and Thursday finally brought some fireworks to a very complacent market. The S&P 500 had not had a 1% move in 74 days until Wednesday’s drawdown.

Rising yields were nailed as the culprit but months of rallying eventually require some sort of shake out – whatever the catalyst. Wednesday’s sell off was the worst day for the S&P 500 since February and the worst for the NASDAQ since June 2016.

The market losses are “a reaction from investors finally realizing we are in a higher interest-rate environment, and given the elevated level of stocks, market participants were likely looking for a reason to sell,” said Charlie Ripley, senior investment strategist for Allianz Investment Management. “Higher interest rates typically bring on tighter financial conditions which could dampen growth going forward and equity markets are reacting to that.”

Yields on the 10 year fell back to their “breakout” level late in the week.

The Chinese market’s “reversal” was stunted by the selling in U.S. markets – now back to new recent lows.

It was such a rough week even gold got a bid as a “safe haven”.

This selloff in housing stocks continues unabated. Rising mortgage rates and high prices seem to be working together to hurt the sector.

One would think the selling would knock off some of the most speculative stocks but “market leader” Tilray (TLRY) held in amazingly well.

For the week the S&P 500 fell 4.1% while the NASDAQ sunk 3.7%.

Economic news was not market moving.

Here is the 5 day weekly “intraday” chart of the S&P 500 … via Jill Mislinski.

The week ahead…

Markets look quite oversold short term and the start of earnings season may turn attention back to underlying fundamentals. The bears have constantly been crushed during this bull market run so let’s see if this is yet another case of that. Retail sales will also be reported.

Third quarter earnings will be a major driver as companies

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No Bids In This Market

by Chart School - October 12th, 2018 1:43 am

Courtesy of Read the Ticker.

no-bids-in-this-market Market Warning Oct 2018!

More RTT Tv

Over the years markets change, but in the end liquidity is liquidity, if you do not have it, markets move like a penny stock. We are all penny stocks now!

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Investing Quote…

…“It is impossible here to give an adequate idea of the Law of Vibration as I apply it to the markets. However, the lay man may be able to grasp some of the principles when I state that the Law of Vibration is the fundamental law upon which wireless telegraphy, wireless telephones and phonographs are based”…

William D Gann

..”If you have trouble imagining a 20% loss in the stock market, you shouldn’t be in stocks”..

John (Jack) Bogle

…”The four most dangerous words in investing are ‘This time it’s different’ “…

John Templeton

..”If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians”..

Warren Buffett

The minute you get away from the fundamentals – whether it’s proper technique, work ethic, or mental preparation – the bottom can fall out of your game.

Basketball Legend Michael Jordan.

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SP500 sell off well forecast by President Trump

by Chart School - October 10th, 2018 6:10 pm

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sp500-sell-off-well-forecast-by-president-trump TRUMP said ‘we may have to take a hit!. No kidding, with stocks at extreme all time highs, add on the trade wars and you are surely to upset the worlds demand engine (i.e China). Of course you can not change anything with out breaking a few conventions, therefore investors can not be blind to changes in asset prices as president Trump made his intentions very clear.

An investor must understand how the markets work, we know algo’s work the intra-day market to the upside and after the SP500 95 pt sell off today it looks like they work to the down side. Plus Mr Market wants to find out the level of Powell ‘fed put’ is. Is it like Mrs Yellen at -10% ? Or is much lower. The things we are about to learn!

Maybe the SP500 sell off is the Democrats move against the US president, as he has owned the 2018 rally? If it is President Trump warned all investors on June 4th 2018

..”I’m not saying there won’t be a little pain so we might lose a little of it but we’re going to have a much stronger country when we’re finished, and that’s what I’m all about.”..

Knock on effects of a SP500 sell off greater than -12% are:

1) Pensions risk.
2) The debt on share buy backs risk.
3) US Govt tax receipts via capital gains risk.
4) Allows a transfer of funds from stocks to bonds.
5) Will quantitative tightening turn into quantitative easing?

Now for those over 40 years of age, (like the author), you know this market is just ‘Nuts’ and exponential upwards markets always (not some, but all) end the same way.

Like the soldiers at Bastogne during WW2 the only way Mr Market can be rescued is by General ‘Fed’ Powell’s QE4 (a maybe).

A reminder, remember Bitcoins exponential rally: $5000, $10,000, $15,000 on its way to $100,000. It too succumbed to market laws and a +50% correction followed. Folks this is normal. Individual stocks may retrace +50%, but do not worry the central planners will do all they can to slow down and limit leading indexes corrections.

Below we have…

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Weekly Market Recap Oct 7, 2018

by Chart School - October 8th, 2018 5:23 am

Courtesy of Blain.

Certainly the chart of the week was not in the stock market but the bond market. The yield on 10 year bonds surged over recent highs, which rattled the indexes late in the week; in fact these are levels not seen since 2011.

“Yields spiking up this week have caught many by surprise and some repricing is happening; however, the reason yields are rising are positive, not negative,” said Jamie Cox, a managing partner at Harris Financial Group, who argued that higher yields are a result of a strong economy.

In other news TRADE WARS(tm)!! with Canada seemed to have come to an end which bolstered the market Monday.

The Chinese market was closed for holiday last week but let’s see if it can continue this reversal which would indicate “those in the know” are seeing a trade deal being done…

Oil remained strong:

Housing stocks do not appear to like those rising interest rates!

For the week the S&P 500 fell 1.0% while the NASDAQ sunk 3.2%.

Economic news of interest: (1) ISM Manufacturing came in at a very strong 59.8 Monday, a tad bit below expectation, (2) ISM Services rose to 61.6 which was the 2nd highest reading on record!

The big one was of course (3) the employment report for the month of September:

The economy created a modest 134,000 new jobs in September, but it was enough to push the U.S. unemployment rate down to a 49 year low of 3.7%. The last time the jobless rate was lower was in December 1969. Economists had expected a gain of 168,000 nonfarm jobs. The average hourly wage paid to American workers rose 0.3% to $27.24 an hour. Employment gains for August and July were revised up by a combined 87,000. The government said 270,000 new jobs were created in August instead of 201,000. July’s gain was raised to 165,000 from 147,000.

“Overall, a strong report that will keep the Fed firmly on

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Bond Market, Houston we have a problem!

by Chart School - October 4th, 2018 4:02 pm

Courtesy of Read the Ticker.

bond-market-houston-we-have-a-problem A bond bear market approaches, asset classes around the world will react.

Low interest rate world is coming to an end, it has to, however the period of change will not be plain sailing.

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Bond vs stocks

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Investing Quote…

…“Losing money is the least of my troubles. A loss never troubles me after I take it. I forget it overnight. But being wrong – not taking the loss – that is what does the damage to the pocket book and to the soul.”…

Jesse Livermore

..“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail”..

Benjamin Franklin

..”If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians”..

Warren Buffett

..”it is better to have few stocks and to watch them carefully”…

Bernard Burach

..”Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy”..

Spike Milligan

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RTT browsing latest..

by Chart School - October 2nd, 2018 6:11 am

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rtt-browsing-latest Please review a collection of WWW browsing results.