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That’s right, I said WIMPS!

I have never heard so much whining and crying and complaining about a market drop as I have the past few weeks. Last week, I pointed out that we had only fallen 105 points from the prior week (10,172 to 10,067) and this week we fell ALL THE WAY to 10,012 to finish the week and you would think the world was ending (again) from the way the MSM has been acting.

Dear Prudence,

We’re up 12% in 3 weeks - not bad, that's 208% a year!

With just 1 day left being Friday July 17, 2009, for the July options expiration, there are still several Buy/Write option strategies which will yield high returns (considering the probabilities and it is just 1 trading day). In this post I am using the highly volatile Direxion ETF shares, which seek to return 3 times a specific basket of stocks.

With just 1 day left being Friday July 17, 2009, for the July options expiration, there are still several Buy/Write option strategies which will yield high returns (considering the probabilities and it is just 1 trading day). In this post I am using the highly volatile Direxion ETF shares, which seek to return 3 times a specific basket of stocks.

After reading a lot of blog posts, tweets on twitter, Facebook comments, and emails, I decided it was time to figure out the real decay behind the leveraged ETF's, both long and short. As I wrote about this in one of my previous blog posts, I wanted to revisit this issue of the double and triple leveraged ETF's, and why investor's should stay away from them, and to clear up some confusion.

As promised in my last two posts, Alternate Short Strategy: Purchasing Put Protection for Less, and Alternate Short Strategy: Purchasing Put Protection for Less Part 2 I will be continuing my list of alternate ways to hedge your portfolio without shorting the stock.

Christian Hill at Investor’s Daily Edge says that there is growing evidence that banks are holding back properties from being re-listed to avoid flooding the market. This means there could be an additional backlog of properties that we aren’t even aware of yet.

Too often traders not only have an opinion, but become inflexible. Direction is never a definite, but rather a probability. It's easy after a good day to convince yourself you "know something". Don't get off track...

Let's get the FOMC decision behind us, so we can get back to "normal". The event has little significance this time, other than keeping most participants on the sidelines. I've reviewed certain major themes that have been getting tested lately (ie. the commodity bull), and they are basically intact. Even if commodities are "finished", it does not mean stocks necessarily go up..