This weeks earnings reports will keep the markets jumping

Well  Traders next week marks the first big week of second-quarter earnings, and it is sure to bring both joy and misery to Wall Street.

Investors will concentrate on market fundamentals after weeks when Federal Reserve policies have dominated the market. If they see companies are still struggling, stocks could take a fall.

Even after FDIC chairman Ben Bernake scared markets in June by telling investors the Fed is likely to reduce monetary stimulus in coming months, stocks have recovered, with both the Dow and S&P 500 climbing to all-time highs. In an appearance earlier last  week, the Fed chairman said monetary policy was likely to be accommodative for some time.

"We're in the terminal stages of a Bernanke-driven bubble," said Walter Zimmerman, technical analyst at United-ICAP in Jersey City, New Jersey. "While a lot of damage has been done to the bear case, eventually bad news like weak earnings growth will start to bear fruit." 

Dont forget that earning report is due out this week on C one of our core trading stocks.  I am expecting C to go higher every day this coming week. 

So how did SLOW MONEY OPTIONS do for the week?  I had announced 4 trade recommendations on Thursday all  OK.  My AAPL put spread  & AAPL call spread did fine  both producing 4%.  The SPY put spread 3% and the call spread 10%.  RULES, RULES, RULES but I like it.  The only trade that was of some concern was the SPY put spread the more risky one of the four trades.  Like I had said early Friday the premiums would really start declining around noon and boy did they.  The markets just died at that poing in time. Remember always take the more conservative spread is the reason that I give you choices.  What I do is take all my recommendations just split the money between choices. You can trade just enough to give you an extra days results of trading or trade enough to give you a weeks worth of trading.  The choice is yours take responsibility.

I am trading weekly options to help you grow your portfolios a little each week. We are either making money or not losing money.  Thank you for letting me serve you, I consider it a privilege to work with each of you.  I strive to make a successful trade one week at a time.

Are you making money? If not why not trade with me. Remember the goal is to make money NOT lose money . . . Duh . . . . . . . Take a look and see how Slow Money Option Trading went https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc key=0AjgjBJLwH3rdERid3A0RE1GRFlyaHB0S0VxbHc0Vnc&authkey=COb7xdMJ

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