Phil's Stock World
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 ( 7292 )
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Sector Detector: SectorCast Rankings Take a Neutral Slant as Market Hits New...
After a requisite knee-jerk selloff, stock market bulls shook off Russia’s military action in Ukraine and Crimea as just another buying opportunity. Read more
Posted on 10 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
PSW February Trade Review – Part II
Part one of our trade review was a very busy week where we went bottom-fishing with 46 trade ideas (mostly bullish) in just one week and only 7 of them were... Read more
Posted on 09 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Non-Farm Friday – America Still Not 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 07 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Social Media: Maybe It’s Different This Time…
Broader benchmarks for the U.S. stock market have been hitting fresh highs recently, helped in part by the outperformance of social media related stocks. Read more
Posted on 06 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Free Money Thursday – ECB and BOE Keep the Go Juice Flowing
Both the ECB and the BOE have maintained their record-low rate policies today, despite the "strong" economy that is pushing Global Markets to daily new highs. Read more
Posted on 06 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Watch and Wait Wednesday – Show Us 10,500!
The NYSE Composite Index consists of 1,600 US and 400 Foreign Corporations, it was re-weighted in Jan 2003 with a value of 5,000 points and hit 10,000 on June... Read more
Posted on 05 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Yahoo Weekly Calls In Focus As Shares Move Sharply Higher
Among the most traded options contracts on Yahoo today are the weekly calls expiring at the end of this week. Of the weekly series, the 07Mar’14 $40 strike call... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Turnaround Tuesday – Crisis, What Crisis?
What's a little invasion between friends? Apparently, it was enough to cancel the US delegation to the Paralympics (but our athletes are still going), but not... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
What the Market Wants: War Drums Trump Solid Economic Numbers
Today brought three better than expected economic releases from Construction Spending, ISM Manufacturing, and Personal Income. The ISM figure was quite... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
PetSmart Calls Active Ahead Of Earnings
The most traded options by volume on PetSmart are the Mar $70 strike calls after some 3,600 of the contracts appear to have been purchased most at a premium of... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Monday Madness – Anarchy in the Ukraine
How long has it been since we worred about that one? For people in the Ukraine, the answer is "when did they leave?" as Russia has always had a major naval... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Sector Detector: Stocks Find Blue Skies While Economy Deals with Inclement...
Facing formidable resistance and the threat of an ominous triple-top sell signal if bulls lost their battle, U.S. stocks appear to have successfully navigated... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Options Trades Look For Upside In Yahoo
Of those contracts that expire 07Mar’14, the most traded YHOO options by volume are the $41 strike calls, with around 6,000 lots in play against zero open... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
GDPhriday – Can the Economy Justify the Rising Markets?
Sure it's low-volume, sure it's coming on a day when the Fed put $4Bn worth of POMO into the system and sure it came on Yellen's second day of Free... Read more
Posted on 28 February 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
PSW February Trade Review – Part 1
It will be even more interesting as we begin our trade reviews with the last week of the previous month and, when we left off in our January Trade Review, on th... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
JCP Options Volume Well Above Average As Shares Pop
The most traded call options on JCP as of the time of this writing are the 21 Mar ’14 7.0 strike calls, with roughly 23,000 contracts in play (this is... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Thrilling Thursday – Tell Us About It, Janet!
On Tuesday, the 11th, we found our thrill on Capitol Hill when Janet Yellen testified before Congress (summarized in my Wednesday post) and the markets took... Read more
Posted on 27 February 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Order From Walmart Sparks Heavy Options Activity On Plug Power
Options volume on PLUG is more than two times the stock’s average daily volume as of midday in New York, with upwards of 19,000 contracts in play versus an... Read more
Posted on 26 February 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
Which Way Wednesday – Popping Or Topping?
All but the Dow have fully recovered from the January drop and the Nasdaq is making up for it by going 50 points over the previous 4,250 high (1.2%). Read more
Posted on 26 February 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS -
What the Market Wants: Market Hits New High, Three Stocks to Consider
The market’s major equity indices were all up a little more than 0.6% yesterday, which was off mid-day highs, but positive because the market shrugged off poor... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2014 BUSINESS, ECONOMICS