Looking at the 30-July version of AVAILABLE WEEKLIES spreadsheet on CBOE’s weekly page shows that next week adds some interesting options (USO, CSCO, DNDN, GE) , and drops some that were offered the week before (ABX, POT, XOM). Evidently the clever folks at CBOE are adding options for some stocks just for the week when they are reporting earnings. I suspect that USO, …
UPDATE — Redirected to Black Swans I’ve been thinking about various strategies for dealing with limiting losses. Many investment strategies exhibit moderate upside potential, with large exposure to downside risk. For example, on average the broad equity markets have shown annualized gains in the range of 10% over the long term, but these gains are often punctuated with large downside risks (market panics) that are …
UPDATE — redirected to blog On the chart below you can see that using the slope of the 2004 SPY trendlines anchored on the February 2010 market bottom gave a 2010 bottom trendline that nicely predicted the bottom (or at least a pause) in the recent correction. The big question now is the top trendline. Of course there is nothing to say that 2004 …
If you don’t see the ETF symbol you want there are a lot more here: Dividend, Ex-Dividend, and Paydate / Distribution Date information for ETFs
For the next SPY ex-dividend date and estimated dividend go here. SPDR’s 19-Mar-2010 dividend update reportsSPY’s March 2010 dividend as $0.48 (I had estimated $0.52). The pay date will be 30-April-2010. The ex-dividend date is today, 19-March-2010.
