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Kevin Cook is an options instructor for the Options News Network. He was an institutional foreign exchange market maker and arbitrageur for nine years, where he worked with futures. When I looked late last year at the mega-trends I want to be invested in for this second decade of the 21st century, the top five on my list were: 1. Biotechnology 2. ... Continue reading »
March 09, 2010 15:55 EST Related Symbols: BWEN, CREE, ENER, ESLR, FSLR, VECO
InterMune shares were not allowed to begin trading in the pre-market session today due to a trading halt by NASDAQ. This is common on FDA event days for biopharma sto... Continue reading »
We know that the stocks of young biotech companies with experimental drugs in the works trade “make or break” around FDA approval events. Friday’s action in Inte... Continue reading »
There ARE only two groups of people I really listen to in the investing arena: big, successful portfolio managers, and company CEOs. I’ve been talking for a year now... Continue reading »
I read a moving, eye-opening story on Bloomberg.com this morning (“End-of-Life Warning at $618,616 Makes Me Wonder Was It Worth It”) by a woman who shared... Continue reading »
March 04, 2010 14:08 EST Related Symbols: FBT, IBB, UNH, WLP
Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal are both reporting this morning that the U.S. Department of Justice has requested that several hedge funds preserve records of th... Continue reading »
March 03, 2010 12:29 EST Related Symbols: CME
Five days ago, I showed this chart of gold futures and suggested that we may get another great buying opportunity below $1,100 an ounce. I was looking for a very trade... Continue reading »
March 03, 2010 09:57 EST Related Symbols: GLD
This morning, shares of OSI Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: OSIP) are up more than 50% on a hostile takeover bid by Astellas Pharma, Japan’s second-largest drugmaker. I had... Continue reading »
March 01, 2010 13:58 EST Related Symbols: FBT, HGSI, IBB, ITMN, OSIP
On the open this morning, we saw a large options trade cross the tape in homebuilder Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL). It looks like someone sold 9,258 of both the June 18 ca... Continue reading »
February 26, 2010 14:22 EST Related Symbols: TOL
In late November, as gold was headed toward a historic new high above $1,200, I was on CNBC’s Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo and said that the conditions were rip... Continue reading »
