Hi, these are just ideas not recommendations, sometimes I trade my ideas, sometimes I don’t.
Always remember, yours is the responsibility for your trades,
Good luck,
Erick



Thursday, May 22, 2025

STI reporte de mercado -stock market- 21 mayo 2025

 

Buenas tardes, hoy es 21 de mayo de 2025, nuestro reporte de hoy sobre bolsa de valores y mercados financieros les llega por cortesía del bufete de abogados Stern y Comas y de la operadora de inversiones STI, stern trading and investments

 

El mercado de acciones representado por el índice sp500 cerró al día con menos -1.61 % experimentando su mayor baja horaria desde las 12 del  mediodía hasta la 1 de la tarde cuando bajó  -1.13%

Del total de 776 compañías que seguimos  a diario, con capitalización de mercado sobre los 5,000 millones de dólares, volumen diario negociado superior a 10 millones de acciones y precio por acción mayor de 10, las mayores ganadoras en porcentaje hoy, entre otras, googl aumentó su precio en 2.87%, US Steel la compañía que produce un gran numero de productos de acero cerró a 42.02 con un aumento de 2.04%, CME la operadora de contratos de futuros, fundada en 1898 aumentó su precio en 1.39% y AEM la minera canadiense cerró a 115.63 con un aumento de 2.72% entre otras ganadoras.

 

 

Los rendimientos de los bonos al cierre de hoy, El bono Norteamericano a 10 años está rindiendo un 4.6% anual, el bund alemán también a 10 años tiene un rendimiento anual de 2.67% , el bono japones, el JGB a 10 años cerro hoy rindiendo 1.5% anual a sus inversionistas, y el bono británico, llamado el gilt reporta un rendimiento de 4.7% anualizado.

 

El rendimiento promedio de los certificados de depósitos o CDs en los bancos norteamericanos a la fecha , con un plazo de 12 meses, es de 2.34% anual

El promedio de los CDs en bancos canadienses es de 3.20% al año

 Los festgeld, mas o menos el equivalente a los CDs norteamericanos con ciertas diferencias, ofrecidos por los bancos alemanes, tienen un promedio de rendimiento anual de 2.38% al día de hoy.

 

Las criptomonedas mas importantes cerraron hoy a estos precios

Bitcoin se cotiza a esta hora a 108,335 dólares

Ether, la segunda criptomoneda en importancia se cotiza a 2,510 dólares

Bitcoin se inició oficialmente en el 2009, en sus primeros años, 2010-2011 su precio fluctuaba entre 5 centavos y un dólar por cada bitcoin, en el 2013 su valuación llegó a 266 dólares.

 

Microsoft al cierre de hoy es la compañía con mayor capitalización de mercado desplazando a AAPL como la compañía mas cara del mundo, el market cap de Microsoft hoy es de 3.37 trillones de dólares y el precio de su acción cerró a 452.57 dólares

 

 

En orden descendente, al cierre de hoy, las compañías con mayor capitalización de mercado, luego de MSFT

AApl, 3.02 trillones

GOOGl 2.2 trillones

Amazon en cuarto lugar con un market cap de 2.05 trillones

Y Meta antiguo Facebook 1.69 trillones

Recordamos que market cap o capitalización de mercado es el valor producto de multiplicar el total de acciones en circulación de una compañía por el precio de su acción.

 

Los mercados financieros están en clara recuperación luego de los Bumps que sufrieron en febrero y marzo, el incide Dow Jones desde el 22 abril a la fecha ha subido un 6.8%, el sp500 que agrupa a 500 de las mas grandes compañías publicas lleva un aumento de un 11% en el ultimo mes, y el Nasdaq que agrupa a las compañías de tecnología ha aumentado un 15.17% desde el 22 de abril

 

Los mercados así como el desarrollo humano, aun con sus pausas siempre irán en aumento.

 

Desde STI le habló Erick Stern

Monday, December 9, 2024

The case for swing trading, options or stocks II

For Ray, excellent physician and stock market aficionado, also my nephew, Godson and think-alike

 

So let’s continue building our case with a real life example, now I’m sure CVX is an excellent company suffice is to say all my trading is based in technical considerations, with thousands of stocks trading, we retailers don’t have the time or manpower to nibble in fundamental analysis, also I personally, subject my trading for 2 or 3 days tops.

After I identified weakness in the oil industry at the time of my trading, I started looking for a weak stock with enough liquidity in the options chain, and choose CVX

 

On Nov 27 it made a kind of blow off top, it went for a gain of 1.3% in the day and ended -0.26% in the lower half of the range, that got my attention.

 


 

 

On December 2 at midday it was trading down so I open my put position, immediately after I bought my puts at 1.24 it reversed course, I ended the day with a 50% loss in my position

 

 

Certainly I don’t do intraday trading with stocks options, for that futures is better for me, my analysis was for 2 or 3 days, I also trade with a target using modeling for option prices, they are available over the web with the Black-Scholes calculation

By the way, those 2 guys together with Merton won a Nobel Prize for their option pricing modeling.

 

Continuing with my case

Next day although the stock ended down, my position ended losing money, I readjust my target for next day.

 

On 4 Dec, the stock dropped and my target is reached, I ended the day with a 20% profit in 2 days, in that period the stock went from around 160.35 to 158.40, had I shorted the stock instead of opening the puts my profit would be 1.2% in 2 days.

 

 

 

 

 

Writing this I checked the options chain, My puts ended today at 2.21 bid, a 78% profit, of course I sold 3 trading days ago and left big profits on the table, but I take comfort in, quoting from Linda Raschke’s rules:

 


“Except in unusual circumstances, get in the habit of taking your profit too soon. Don’t torment yourself if a trade continues winning without you. Chances are it won’t continue long. If it does, console yourself by thinking of all the times when liquidating early reserved gains that you would have otherwise lost.”

We’ll be on vacation until Dec 2, see you next year

Shalom all

 

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

The case for swing trading, options or stocks

 

As we said before, sectors and individual stocks, with thousands of companies to search for, with limited resources, it’s a bit of a problem

 

We follow 700 + companies with the following characteristics

Av Daily Volume > 1,000,000

Market Cap > 5 billion

Stock price > 10

So we like to measure different parameters

 

60% of those companies ended down 12/2, however the SP500 ended up

37% on nov 29

47% on nov 27

56% on nov 26

28% on nov 25

 

56% have negative momentum at close compared with 49% at Fridays close

Only 15% are trading at the close with negative slope

 

Let’s see the oil industry

85% ended down on 12/2

19% on 11/29

53% on 11/27

59% on 11/26

88% on 11/25

 

I ask myself, if this is a short term pattern for shorting stocks on that group, well most of the time all groups move in tandem so if the general market is not going down, its better to stay away from shorting, but, the oil industry is weaker than the general market, or is it the end of a short term down pattern for that group, if that’s the case the stronger stocks will be going up

 

Then you have the case for individual stocks, if it is a weak group, is better to short one or two stocks or the industry’s ETF. With a swing strategy for 2 or 3 days tops your benefits are limited unless you trade a lot of money.

 

For example, you short 100 shares of a 20 dollar stock, it is a 2,000 dollars trade,

case the stock goes down 1% in 2 days, 20 dollars profit

case the stock reverse and closed up 1% in two days, you lose 1% or 20 dollars

 

Now let’s make an hypothetical case with options

Let’s assume

20 exercise price

20 current stock price

18% implied volatility

4.27% risk free interest rate

Time to Expiration 16 days

The put option is trading at 28 cents, again this is all hypothetical using a option valuation model, reality can be like that or not, others factors go into option valuation, also you need a liquid contract

 

Two days later the stock is trading at 19.80

The model value for the put contract is 37 cents, that is 33% profit

 

To be continued………..

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