Saturday, February 18, 2012

New Trade Alert


Apple has fallen from $525 to $500 in the last few days. I am looking to do a call spread on Apple the jobless claims were positive news for the fourth week in a row and the market may get some upside from this.

This trade makes the most money when Apple stays above $460. This is to hedge our SDS & BAC positions. If all goes well we will make money on both sides.

If the price goes down we get to buy Apple shares at $463 each. I am extremely happy to buy Apple at $463.

Buy the Apple (AAPL) March, 2012 $430-$460 call spread for a net cost of $26.00.

Portfolio weighting: 10% when in the money
($10,000/100/$26) = 4 Contracts

2 trades are required:

1) Buy 4 x AAPL120317C00430000 at $72.00 or best

2) Sell 4 x AAPL120317C00460000 at $46.00 or best

Total cost 2600 x 4 = $10,400

Best Regards,
Robert McManus

Friday, February 17, 2012

The Abundance Engineer February 2012 - Yoga Will Make You A Great Trader


Headline - Yoga Will Make You A Great Trader


We have entered a binary market of long or short or "Risk On" "Risk Off". Details released this week show that the average hedge fund returned only 1% in 2011. The S&P returned only 0.4%.


It is difficult for hedge funds to change their tack quickly all decisions go to boards of management and need to get approval.

Individual investors have a superior advantage in that they can get in and out of the market quickly. 

We have been long since October and I stated back in December that Apple will be the stock that will break the market. 

From December's Premium Newsletter...

​"I see the big Apple crash coming in March or April. It could be as early as January but unlikely." 


In the last week alone Apple has added $75 Billion in market cap. The market now boils down to one stock. Everyone wants a piece of it. I get Y2K Deja Vu all over again.

In March 2000 I sold 85% of my tech stocks 3 weeks before the crash. I did the same in 2007.

Today is similar it is looking more and more like a market top every day. However, there are better and more profittable ways to short the market than to short Apple or the S%P. 












Nothing goes straight up Apple will have to correct.



I sent out a trade alert yesterday to buy puts on a financial stock that has been one of the worst perfoming companies of 2011 for good reason. This stock has added 50% to it's share price in the last few weeks. Volatility works both ways. When the market falls again this stock will likely fall hard and the put premiums will go through the roof.

I also sent out a second trade alert for those learning to trade options.          

Since I started the premium subscription service last July our portfolio is up 18.9% in 7.5 months. That's 2.4% a month or an annualized return of 29.1%. Here is a complete list of all the trades we bought and sold in our portfolio  since July 1st 2011. 


Would you like these kind of returns ?

Owing to the fact that our returns have been so good I am taking this opportunity to incresase the cost of the subscription to 79.95 per month on the 1st March 2012.

I will keep the old price of 59.95 for the rest of the year for all current and new subscribers prior to the 1st March.  

To avail of the old price Subscribe below




One a seperate note one of our subscribers Julie Siebt is running a Yoga and meditation retreat in March in Thailand and asked me to send out some information.












Yours Sinceerly,

Robert McManus