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Options Intelligence Report: Award-Winning Avis Attracts Bullish Option Plays

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:17:16 GMT

Today's tickers: CAR, XLU, BIG, SLM, TTWO, MRVL & TSN[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 30

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:10:34 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 30, 2009 Um, “worse than expected”? I guess that sums it up today as Consumer Confidence data was terrible. Stock price declines today were milder than expected given the news. But, silly me, I forget that this is the quarter and mid-year end—there are bonuses to be had and bullish headlines to be written.[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For June 15

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:58:46 GMT

MARKET COMMENT June 15, 2009 The only positive from today is Monday’s have proven to be good buying days of late. But that’s the only thing. Clearly some complacency (“the bottom’s in” and etc) combined with light volume (SPY traded only 180 million shares Friday) allowed markets to be pushed higher by those who could do it. Getting sucked in with them has always been the danger as the game often is to dump their accumulated stock to you once you step in.[More...]

Dave Fry's Comments for May 20

Wed, 20 May 2009 23:34:29 GMT

MARKET COMMENT May 20, 2009 Wall Street has deals to get done and they were excited about BAC’s secondary this morning. The way these things work is simple: if you’re an institution, you better play ball and buy or you’re cut out of future deals you might really like. So we opened higher amid this enthusiasm and the bad news from HPQ last night was brushed-off. That’s the way it’s been with news—front burner it, back burner it and repeat.[More...]

Revisiting Some Previous Picks

Mon, 04 May 2009 15:51:00 GMT

The volatility in the markets over the past year has been staggering to say the least. Even during these turbulent times, I was always of the belief that utilities were relatively safe. As a result, I wrote about a few stocks in the past seven months or so that I thought were pretty good plays in the current market situation. For the most part, I was drawn to these stocks because of their potential for growth moving forward, their steady history, and their extremely strong dividends. Although “sure things” do not exist, I was fairly confident in the ability for these stocks to perform well. It has become quite evident that even with strong fundamentals such as those that these stocks possessed there is no guarantee that a stock is going to perform well. I thought that the safe play would be a large cap that boasted a high dividend. This is initially what attracted me to Southern Company ([More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For January 5

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:35:00 GMT

MARKET COMMENT January 5, 2009 Part 1 Part 2 Color today, sloppy. Volume is still on the light side as investors may be slow to return to work. Breadth was positive even with negative headline numbers. Despite all notifications of ridiculously poor mathematical calculations Yahoo/Finance still can’t seem to get things right as you’ll note below.[More...]

Good News... A Two-Day Fed Meeting

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:58:00 GMT

I'm so hungry for good news on investing, the economy and the stock market that I even dreamed that Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) decided to give all shareholders a special, $3 a share dividend.[More...]

Piedmont’s Success In A Down Market

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:50:00 GMT

This year has been nothing but negative in the equity markets. As of October 17th, year to date The Dow is down 31.9% and the S&P 500 Index is down 34.68%. The last two weeks have been the most volatile of all, and it is impossible to know when the markets will settle. So, if I were to tell you about a stock that is up 18.23% year to date and has outperformed the Utilities Sector SPDR (XLU: 27.41, 0.00 (0.00%)) by 51.61%, you would probably be interested. Well this is exactly what I have in Piedmont Natural Gas Company[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For October 13

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:28:00 GMT

MARKET COMMENT October 13, 2008 Yeah, they’re tossing everything they’ve we’ve got at markets. Lloyd Bridges line from the movie Airplane may be what we all need right now eh? With markets deeply oversold we rallied mightily on the backs of coordinated efforts from global monetary authorities. So that’s the bottom then right?[More...]

Dave Fry's Market Comments For October 9

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:57:00 GMT

MARKET COMMENT October 9, 2008 Batman (Paulson) & Robin (Bernanke) Batman: "It's time to get set, Robin. It's almost oda wabba simba." Robin: "It's almost what?" Batman: "Oda wabba simba.[More...]