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Options Writer Series — Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR). Growth at a Discount
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 May 9, 2012 The subject of an enormous and powerful bear raid and a management not skilled in handling this kind of situation has set up what I believe is a possible huge opportunity to make a lot of money. For the second quarter ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — What About The Apple (AAPL) Of Your Eye?
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 May 2, 2012 I hesitate to write about Apple because it is so numerically high that few people can afford to buy 100 shares. But for those who can, you may want to sell options. Current estimates are that the company can earn ... Read More
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The Impact of the JOBS Act on Private Offerings and Crowd Funding
Hamilton & Associates Law Group By: Brenda Lee Hamilton On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed the Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”), into law. The JOBS Act, which was passed with bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, is comprised of a number of smaller bills that reduce the regulatory ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — Get More Out Of the Consumer Spending ETF (XLY)
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 April 17, 2012 Packed with 81 stocks of consumer stocks, the Consumer Discreet Select Sector SPDR (XLY) yields 1.4% a year. This is certainly better than the current money market yield. However, the trick is to reduce stock market risk while increasing yield. ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — Consumers Continue To Exist. Bet Safe– XLP – Consumer Staples Spider
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 April 10, 2012 As long as a meteorite does not wipe out the human race, thereby ending the stock market, companies will continue to provide products to consumers all over the world. Based on a world population currently of 7,000,000,000 people and growing, ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — Greater Return With Less Risk. It’s Technology (XLK) In Action
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 April 3, 2012 The technology investment field is packed with land mines of new inventions. Even now, as you read this, there is someone in the world inventing the next greatest thing that human kind needs and wants. Which company, present and future ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — You Are Using a Utility If Your Lights Are On
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012   March 27, 2012 Utilities Select Sector Spider (XLU) Yields 4.9%. Current most Money Market funds yield less than 1/5 of 1%.  The XLU is not a stock with a large 12-month price range; $29.45 - $36.72. XLU consists of various regulated utility stocks. This ... Read More
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SEC Orders DTC to Adopt Fairness Procedures
By: Brenda Lee Hamilton, Esquire Hamilton & Associates Law Group   In the Matter of the Application of International Power Group, Ltd. ("IPWG") the Securities and Exchange Commission reviewed certain actions taken by Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), the SEC determined that DTC did not provide IPWG with adequate fair procedures in connection with ... Read More
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Chilling With the DTC
By: Brenda Lee Hamilton, Esquire Hamilton & Associates Law Group-For the Issuer Issuers, who incur the expense and time associated with obtaining effectiveness of their registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission 15c2-11 cleared by FINRA, often are devastated to learn that they cannot obtain clearance from Depository Trust Company (DTC) ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — The Higher Gasoline Prices Go, the Better For This Company (VLO)
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 March 20, 2012 Valero Energy Corporation (VLO) is an independent petroleum company that refines and markets oil products. The company operates through three segments that include refining, ethanol, and retail. They benefit as pump prices go higher along with other items that they ... Read More
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Psychopaths: More Main Street Than Wall Street
A recent article in CFA magazine made a startling claim that garnered a generous amount of media attention and sent the blogosphere into overdrive: 10% of Wall Street Traders are psychopaths! Maybe more! Aside from the fact that there doesn’t appear to be any research to support this 10% ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — In General (Mills), Selling Calls to Add To Income
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 February 21, 2012 With the stock market on an upward tear, it is time to look for selling points. The challenge is that safe government bond yields are so low that it literally forces one to buy stocks that pay dividends. Where $100,000 ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM)
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 February 15, 2012 Maybe you saw the movie with Matt Damon. This company is a behemoth company that is huge in the food business. Come what may seven billion people are on the planet and they must eat. Archer-Daniels-Midland Company procures, transports, stores, processes, ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — Microsoft – The Growing Giant (MSFT)
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 February 7, 2012 Here is a huge company whose stock has gone virtually no place for the last five years. According to Motley Fool, the company is growing at a 6% rate and is currently selling ($30.24) for 11 times earnings. The company ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — Wal-Mart (WMT) A Plan To Take Profits
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 January 24, 2012 Here is a great company that has been more than fair with its owners, the shareholders. The current annual dividend totals $1.46 and is paid out $.365 quarterly. Based on a closing price of $60.01, the annual yield is 2.43%. ... Read More
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Deutsche Börse AG Suspends New Listings on the Open
By Brenda Lee Hamilton, Attorney Hamilton & Associates On December 20, 2011, Deutsche Börse AG suspended new listings for the First Quotation Board due to fraud and new cases of suspected market manipulation among several shares listed in the First Quotation Board. Deutsche Börse AG stated, “Prosecution according to criminal law and ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — Calling Cisco (CSCO) – The stock not the Kid!
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011-2012 January 10, 2012 Cisco Systems, Inc (CSCO) looks like a technology stock on a comeback trail. The shares are in the Dow-Jones Averages. However, that is not a guarantee on anything as witness the shareholder wipeout of General Motors. Still, the company seems to ... Read More
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Listing On the Entry Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
By: Brenda Lee Hamilton, Attorney At Deutsche Börse, the operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse, FWB®), an IPO in the Regulated Unofficial Market or the Open Market occurs on either the Entry Standard or the First Quotation Board. With the Entry Standard, Deutsche Börse has created a simple, fast ... Read More
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Options Writer Series — Carnival Cruise Line (CCL) Sails into Profits
By Warren Kaplan The Stock Option Writer © Warren Kaplan 2011 December 15, 2011 Selling covered calls is basic to investing. Do you know why? Because it helps you toset a sell price. This is a price that you say is comfortable to you. When you sell a covered call, you have set a ... Read More
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Bond Offerings on the Entry Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
By: Brenda Lee Hamilton, Attorney Deutsche Börse has extended its successful equity financing programs to allow Entry Standard listed companies to raise capital through bond offerings, Due to low transparency requirements, the bond listing and/or offering is ideal companies listed or qualified for the Entry Standard of the Frankfurt ... Read More
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