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US Dollar Index (Daily), June 15, 2014 - Option Queen Letter

Option Queen Letter

The business press attributed the nervousness seen in market prices this past week to the various global conflicts grabbing the headlines. The media always has to have an actual reason for market retreats when in actuality, the markets took a breather and gave back all of the previous week’s gains. Markets go up and they […]

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US SPX 500 Futures(Daily) - Option Queen

The Option Queen Letter

Look with an unemployment rate of 7.6%, (which, by the way, is totally bogus with actual unemployment in the teens), why would anybody suggest that minimum wage be increased? The current administration is also pushing to remove unpaid internships. A possible result will be the employment of more robots and less people to do the […]

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The Option Queen Letter

The Option Queen Letter by the Option Royals It really gets scary when you try to sell and ETF and discover that you can’t. It is almost as scary as breaking the buck on the money market funds. This past week, there were two instances where redemptions were halted on ETFs, State Street halted redemptions […]

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The Option Queen Letter

The airs is full of talk of sequestration and the resulting furloughs of air traffic controllers. Naturally this mess was quickly cleaned up when our elected officials needed to avail themselves of the flights. Now there is more to this than meets the eye, of course. How much of the delay was due to sequestration […]

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Waiting for the cabby signal

The market appears to be sending us an observable signal of a possible top. This week for the first time since the Lehman failure, we are hearing from people we know that they are quitting their jobs to trade. Although, it appears that we are near or approaching an interim top we are waiting for […]

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