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Wednesday, May 09, 2007

Magic Wednesday

Watchlist additions and filtered trade candidates
NILE - Blue Nile (specility retailer).
TTC-A: (nil)
GAPHV
: WCG, CHE

Trade session notes
Nikkei...17748.12...+91.28...+0.5%.
Hang Seng
...20844.78...+138.43...+0.7%.
FTSE...6560.10...+9.70...+0.2%.
DAX
...7459.62...+17.42...+0.2%.
CBOE VIX 13.210.06

11:09:22 AM ET Shaved in some profit on the IBM Calls by selling half of the contracts @ $3.3.
11:13:50 AM ET Made a trailing stop order for the other 2 IBM Call contracts at 0.1 points default down from $3.3.

Open positions at market close 8 May 2007
Plain vanillas
.MTIL MT SEP 60 Call $56.40


$2.95
($195.00)
.IBMGA IBM JUL 105 Call $103.29


$2.75
$160.00
.PAQHR PCAR AUG 90 Call $87.33


$4.3
$60.00

Advanced positions - Leftover legs
.UPUGR CTSH JUL 90 Call $80.30


$1.1
($450.00)
.SWFGI SNDK JUL 45 Call
$44.39

$2.3
($90.00)
.SWQSV SNDK JUL 42.5 Put



$1.4
($180.00)