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Trading Ideas for Week of 06/30/08

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With the three percent downturn in the markets on Thursday 06/26, we are looking for an upturn in the stock market next week. This articles lists some trading ideas that could prove very profitable if the stock market does indeed start trading to the upside.

Vested Interest: 
Purchasing shares and or options in SSO, IBM, CAT, DD, WMT
Stock Symbol: IBM INTL BUSINESS MAC Stock Price: $119.54 Todays Change: +0.44 (+0.37%)

Must be a Goldman research joke: Buy Puts on Industrials? Really!?

“The GE earnings miss and guidance revision last week highlights how the increasingly weak macro environment can quickly sneak up on even the most diversified and well-run of industrials businesses,”

I would actually be buying calls in specific industrial names and have Honeywell (HON) and Union Pacific (UNP) calls on my book for the past 2 weeks.

Vested Interest: 
HON, UNP, ABB, PCP, MDR
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Beware of the Cat

 

My current outlook of where the stock Caterpillar is going.

Stock Symbol: CAT CATERPILLAR INC Stock Price: $70.31 Todays Change: -0.11 (-0.16%)

Looking for an Equity Safe Haven for Current Turbulence?

Don Dion, the publisher of the Fidelity Independent Adviser family of newsletters, pointed out the PowerShares FTSE RAFI Industrials Sector ETF (PRFN) as a potential safe haven for during this turbulent market. Not everyone has the time or the understanding of the markets to make wise investment decisions and this might be the answer for those people.

Vested Interest: 
UTX, GE, CAT
Stock Symbol: PRFN PWERSHRS RAFI IND Stock Price: $50.82 Todays Change: +0.21 (+0.41%)