
Jack Dorsey’s Square scores with Bitcoin trading revenue, but its latest acquisition profits from the poor.
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Jack Dorsey’s Square scores with Bitcoin trading revenue, but its latest acquisition profits from the poor.
(more…)Monday ended better than it started, I can tell you that much. My main portfolio, which consists of 15 autumn-dated put positions, did pretty well, and I’d like to write a few words about each of these positions, in alphabetical order.
Ally Financial is doing all right, but it’s still range bound. It’s going to take some serious weakness in financial stocks to get it to crack the horizontal support.

I’m often asked, “What’s the best stock for credit spreads?”
I’m dumbfounded by the question because it would require me to have a crystal ball, and unfortunately, my crystal ball broke decades ago. So, I can’t answer the question with any accuracy. And it’s exactly why I take a purely statistical approach to the market.
However, I can tell those that ask how to find the best stock for credit spreads, or any options selling strategy for that matter, using the following process.
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