Nicholas Vardy
A Bet on Booming Biotech — And Booking Another 105.53% Gain
U.S. stock markets ended the week pretty much where they started. The Dow Jones rose 0.10%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.03%. Global Markets continued to recover, with the Emerging Markets MSCI index rising 1.41%. You had three big gainers in your Bull Market Alert portfolio, with ProShares Ultra Gold (UGL) jumping 6.06%; Bank of Ireland […]
A Solid Week for Your Portfolio and Three New Buy Recommendations
It was yet another positive week for global markets, with the S&P 500 up 0.96% and the MCSI Emerging Markets Index ending the week 1.52% higher. The tech-heavy NASDAQ did slip 0.53% with its large position in Microsoft (MSFT) weighing on the overall index. Big gainers in your Alpha Investor Letter portfolio included iShares MSCI […]
My Trip along the Berlin Wall
“Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” It was just over 26 years ago, on June 12, 1987, when President Ronald Reagan stood in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate and delivered this now famous challenge to the Soviet Union’s leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Only two years later, on November 9, […]
Booking 57.59% Gains on Gold’s Best Day in a Year
Your position in Ultra Gold ProShares (UGL) soared 6.10% yesterday, as the price of gold rallied to its biggest daily gain in a year. With your UGL October 2013 $50 call options (UGL131019C00050000) up 57.59%, sell half of your options here to lock in these big gains. Raise your stop in UGL to $49.50 to […]
Locking in Your Big Bull Market Profits
Global stock markets closed a mixed week: the S&P 500 fought to a 0.71% gain, while the Nasdaq retreated 0.35%. The MCSI Emerging Markets Index rose 0.86%. Last week’s Bull Market Alert recommendation WellPoint, Inc. (WLP) ended the week 1.64% higher. The Ultra Gold Proshares (UGL) also jumped 1.58%. After booking 59.55% gains is Stratasys […]
A Week of Solid Gains Across the Globe
It was another solid week for U.S. stocks, as the S&P 500 rose 1.48% and the NASDAQ jumped 2.69%. More encouragingly, the MCSI Emerging Markets Index also recovered 4.28% after many months of underperformance. Big gainers in your Alpha Investor Letter portfolio included iShares MSCI Singapore Small Cap Fund (EWSS), up 2.21%; iShares MSCI Ireland […]