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  • White Christmas Portfolio Wrap-Up [View article]
    It depends on what level of participation you are looking for. We have many types of Membership, from our weekly report at $295 a year to Premium Memberships (currently on wait list) at $499 a month.

    Stock World Weekly has plenty of trade ideas each week, geared towards the less active participant, of course while Premium Members include hard core day traders and fund managers who are really active day to day and like to discuss specific trade ideas during our daily Chat sessions.

    We have 3 Memberships in between the two, all with different levels of access, which is detailed here: http://bit.ly/uQEGJj

    Have a very happy holidays - hope to see you inside in 2012!

    - Phil
    Dec 28 05:49 AM | 0 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • White Christmas Portfolio Wrap-Up [View article]
    If you go back to the original post, you'll see that this and aggressive carve-out of a larger portfolio. We certainly don't recommend this kind of play for anyone who ONLY has a $25,000 account - that's something we're always very clear about.

    Our long-term strategies are, on the whole, fairly conservative and we end up with huge amounts of excess margin so if $15,000 is 10% of a $150,000 portfolio that's over 50% cash - the margin on our aggressive short-term plays is not an issue.
    Dec 26 11:32 AM | 0 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Whipsaw Wednesday: Don't Get Excited [View article]
    No commissions but these are the entry and exit points (as best determined and reviewed by over 500 Members who follow them) of the trade ideas from the point at which we publish the trade idea through the time I review the trade. Usually, unless a specific call was made to kill a trade, I just use the previous day's closing price when discussing results, even though there may have been more optimal exits using proper stops.
    Oct 12 07:40 AM | 0 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • TGIF: Closing A 12% Down Quarter [View article]
    Margin on indexes is high if you don't have a Portfolio Margin account (check with your broker) but very reasonable if you do. IB and ThinkorSwim have been the best all-around sites from what most Members say but TOS was taken over by Ameritrade and has gone way downhill lately.

    We teach many kinds of leveraged trading strategies at PSW and we also have our own reps at several of the major brokers who take very good care of our Members.

    We flipped bullish this morning (see morning post - free on our site) and killed those bearish trades and picked up some levered action going the other way. It was a nail-biter until the close but then it worked out just fine.
    Oct 4 10:16 PM | 0 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • TGIF: Closing A 12% Down Quarter [View article]
    We offset the spread with a $2.90 sale of RUT puts that expired worthless for a net .10 entry on the spread.
    Oct 4 01:18 AM | 0 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • TGIF: Closing A 12% Down Quarter [View article]
    What do you call income? Do you mean profits or revenues? I find it hard to believe you are financing 250% of revenue in unprofitable companies and getting 97% success but, if so - I have about a dozen companies I know who would love to get some funding!
    Sep 30 04:12 PM | 0 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Just Another Manic Monday: Value Investing [View article]
    By the way, whenever you think a post is missing something, you can just click over to PSW, where any post that is up on SA is available for free viewing on our site as well (but not all of our free posts are on SA, so it's always good to check out our site). SA does not include videos and certain images for reasons I'm not quite sure of.
    Sep 27 01:56 AM | 1 Like Like |Link to Comment
  • Just Another Manic Monday: Value Investing [View article]
    Thanks Hans but this site edited the last sentence of my post where all I said was: "... so the bull will be flying – even if the markets are not!" I can't imagine why they did that but it's strange things like that which turn this site into the same generic drivel we get everywhere else on the web (except PSW, of course).

    Sep 27 01:52 AM | 2 Likes Like |Link to Comment
  • Just Another Manic Monday: Value Investing [View article]
    Great suggestion on MT, we're in!
    Sep 27 01:49 AM | 0 Likes Like |Link to Comment
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