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Philstockworld.com (www.philstockworld.com) is the fastest growing stock and option newsletter on the Web. "High Finance for Real People - Fun and Profits" is our motto and our Basic and Premium Chat Sessions offer readers a chance to speak to Phil live during the trading day as well as authors like Optrader, Sabrient, Income Trader and Trend Trader - who send out Alerts during the market sessions and discuss trade ideas live with Members.
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Philip R. Davis is a founder of Phil's Stock World (www.philstockworld.com), a stock and options trading site that teaches the art of options trading to newcomers and devises advanced strategies for expert traders. Mr. Davis is a serial entrepreneur, having founded software company Accu-Title, a real estate title insurance software solution, and is also the President of the Delphi Consulting Corp., an M&A; consulting firm that helps large and small companies obtain funding and close deals. He was also the founder of Accu-Search, a property data corporation that was sold to DataTrace in 2004 and Personality Plus, a precursor to eHarmony.com. Phil was a former editor of a UMass/Amherst humor magazine and it shows in his writing -- which is filled with colorful commentary along with very specific ideas on stock option purchases (Phil rarely holds actual stocks).
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Phil's Stock World
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Commentary on the stock market, options, the economy and a little politics. We teach subscribers how to use options to earn consistent returns on their investments, how to hedge, and how to be the "house" by selling the appropriate options against their positons. We share our many resources and will help you find a trading style that works for you!
LATEST ARTICLES ( 4863 )
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Which Way Wednesday – Beige Books and Strong Bounces
As you can see from Dave Fry's SPY chart, we went up in the Futures 30 S P points and then we fell from the open 30 S P points and then we recovered into the... Read more
Posted on 16 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Testy Tuesday – Tax Day Edition
But, fortuntately, it's still not time to pay the piper for all that money we're borrowing to goose the economy. Well, goose may be too strong a term as 5... Read more
Posted on 15 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
What the Market Wants: Positive News and Stocks at Bargain Prices
Last week’s market performance was nasty again, especially for the Small-cap Growth style/cap, down 4%. Large-caps faired the best, losing only 2.7%. Read more
Posted on 14 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Monday Market Movement – Down But Not Out
This is one very ugly chart with a 10% drop on the Nasdaq and the Russell but that's GOOD news as it's about where we expect the Central Banksters to step in an... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Sector Detector: Fast and Furious Selloff Provides Important Market Cleansing
The sudden bearish turn last week in the market — after hitting new highs the prior week — has come fast and furious as selloffs are wont to do. And the pullbac... Read more
Posted on 14 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Bearish Prints In DDD Put Options
The 17Apr’14 $47 puts traded more than 2,000 times this morning against previously existing open interest of just 94 contracts. Time and sales data indicates... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Friday Failure – JP Morgan Misses Big!
I hate to say I told you so but — no, actually I'm loving this one… In fact, JPM specifically was our earnings short of the week – from our Live Chat Room on... Read more
Posted on 11 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Bearish Trade In Small-Cap ETF Options
This article will become free after 48 hours (see below for free content). To read the rest of this article now, along with Phil's live intra-day comments,... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Fed-Fueled Thursday – Do We Have Enough Thrust?
I mean we expected a bounce yesterday on Monday, when we pointed out that there were 3 Fed Doves in a row speaking after the releast of the minutes but – WOW!... Read more
Posted on 10 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Wednesday Weakness – Will The Fed Turn Us Back Up?
As nasty as our Big Chart looks at the moment, we only have two Vomiting Cobra Patterns (Nasdaq and Russell) while the other three indexes are still forming... Read more
Posted on 09 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Technical Tuesday – Small Correction Or BIG TROUBLE?
We couldn't be happier, of course – as we were feeling a little silly having cashed out with the market making new highs on us. Read more
Posted on 08 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
What the Market Wants: Market Conundrum
What can we say after yet another sharp sell-off? Since last Friday’s open, the S&P; 500 has fallen nearly 3%, the Nasdaq has fallen more than 4.3% and the... Read more
Posted on 08 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Monday Markets – Guiding in for a Crash Landing?
Guidance has gotten uglier, as evidenced by this FactSet chart. These are those annoying Fundamentals I keep whining about while everyone else is trying to... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Sector Detector: Rankings Take a Bearish Turn as the Flight to Safety Solidifies
Although the large caps set new highs early on Friday, small caps and NASDAQ have not come close to their prior highs. Friday closed with extreme weakness acros... Read more
Posted on 07 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Non-Farm Friday – Is America Working?
As you can see from Dave Fry's SPY chart, we're running up on ZERO volume in the Futures and then we sell off all day on very low volume (because there are no... Read more
Posted on 04 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Free Money Thursday – Chinese Stimulus To the Rescue!
China gave the markets a big boost this morning by announcing an immediate $25Bn program for railway construction and another $50Bn a year for "more stuff. Read more
Posted on 03 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Will We Hold It Wednesday – The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Sure only 86M shares were traded on SPY (see Dave Fry's chart), which is about what's usually traded on a holiday but why should we let that bother us. Read more
Posted on 02 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Large Trade In FXI Options
Big prints in FXI call options caught our eye on Tuesday morning amid a positive start to trading for shares in the iShares China Large-cap ETF. Read more
Posted on 01 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Triple Top Tuesday – 3rd Times a Charm?
This is our 3rd visit this year to 1,880 on the S P and maybe this time will be different and, if so, we'll simply have to deploy some of our cash on some... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
What the Market Wants: Where Are Valuations Now?
Today’s market was strong with lots of volume to open the week and close the quarter. The strongest index of the day was the Russell 2000, up 1.8%, followed by... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS