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Expert options trader Phil Davis shares his options trading secrets and views on today’s economy. John Nyaradi: Philip R. Davis is an options trading expert and founder of Phil’s Stock World, a stock and options trading site that teaches the art of options trading to newcomers and advanced trading strategies for expert traders. His articles and references have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Google Finance, Business Week, CNN Money.com, Trader Planet, and iStockAnalyst. Phil is also a marketing partner of Wall Street Sector Selector, and at the end of this interview, I’ll tell you about how you can advantage of a special offer from Phil’s Stock World. Phil, welcome to Wall Street Sector Selector. Philip R. Davis: Hi, thanks, John. John Nyaradi: Today, we’re going to talk a little about your view of the economy, the current state of the markets, then dive into some of the specifics of your option trading strategies and Phil’s Stock World itself. Let’s start with your big picture...

By Barbara Zigah The findings of the recently published Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission won’t come as any great surprise to those investors who’ve followed the stories of the financial crisis from the beginning.  Succinctly stated, the Commission found – as many individuals have been saying all along – that the crisis could have been averted.  The crisis became, simply because those in the know – regulators from the various governmental agencies, and the so-called, “captains of finance” – failed to take heed of the warning signs, if indeed they even recognized them as such.  The Commission acknowledges that it wasn’t any one particular event which led to the crisis, but a generalized laissez-faire attitude among all of those entities which share the blame. According to the Commission, time and again, those government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the N.Y. Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank – agencies that we...

First Quarter: Weak Growth Amid Signs of the Emergence of New Crisis The euro zone did not have time to take a breather early in 2010 as economic dilemmas continued to trail it. After two consecutive quarters of growth achieved in the second half of 2009, the pace of progress continued in the first quarter of 2010 but at a moderate pace amid the emergence of a new crisis that has become the overriding concern of leaders in the region and it even was extended at the global level throughout 2010, which is the "European sovereign debt crisis." The main focus throughout 2010 was on the sovereign debt crisis that was considered a challenge to the resilience of the euro-area economies against the repercussions of global financial crisis as well as the ability of governments to continue to support the weak economy. In fact, signs of crisis appeared significantly in November 2009 when Greece announced its fiscal budget plan for the year in...

Another year had passed by for the world’s largest economy, where the level of expectations was high, yet the economy failed to meet those expectations, as the worst recession since the Great Depression proved to be far worse than anyone had expected, nevertheless, the economy continued to recover throughout 2010, although the recovery was rather poor and slow, but 2011 seems to be a far better year for the United States economy. Housing to Continue Stabilizing The housing market in the United States failed to recover sufficiently in 2010, where elevated unemployment, tightened credit conditions, and record foreclosures continued to weigh down heavily on housing market activities, nevertheless, the housing market continued to stabilize throughout 2010, where activity continued to fluctuate heavily. However, this upcoming year seems to be much better for the housing market, where although we still expect more challenges to arise, but we really believe that conditions will improve drastically in 2011 compared to 2010. The Federal Reserve Bank decided in...

New Year’s eve, people said good bye to 2009 and warmly welcomed 2010 with new hopes and dreams. So did the U.S economy, as it said goodbye to the disastrous 2009, which reflected the worst of the worst economic crisis that has hit the U.S economy and the world for a matter of fact since the Great Depression in the 1930’s, and welcomed 2010 with a strong belief that it will be a year of recovery and prosperity. The economic crisis did show its worst side in 2009, the negative GDP growth rates existed in that year, and the excruciating unemployment rates were also witnessed throughout 2009. Analysts expected to put all that behind in 2010 and January did not prove them wrong as then the 5% growth in GDP during 2009’s final quarter was released. Yet nothing went as planned or hoped for, and I will explain why by narrating the events of 2010 each quarter individually. January to March: The Promising...

Stock trading is very fast becoming one of the most cherished way of investing one's hard earned money. It is important thus that the individual who is thinking about investing his money into stock trading gets the appropriate guidance in this regards. Among all the stock trading avenues available, one of the most favoured one is the option trading services. The concept of option trading services came into being realizing that not everybody investing money in the stock trading is aware of the manner in which the stock markets operate. The freedom of selling or buying a share of a company would allow you to have a control over your financial investments. But it would always be prudent to take the help of a knowledgeable financial consultant, who knows the tenor of the markets whether local or global. Any sanguine financial advisor would provide you with all the options that you can have depending upon your own financial standing as well...

It is a known fact that people these days seek alternative methods of augmenting their financial positions. One of the easiest available alternative is to invest in the stock markets. But it is not at all easy for a novice to start investing their money just off the cuff in the stock market. Anybody who is planning to invest in the stock market must be guided properly by a professional who knows the world of stock markets inside out. Particularly when it comes to the trading of options. Option trading is one of the most popular stock trading in the whole world presently. Although many of the traders consider the option trading to be the same as the normal stock trading, yet it is important to note that the option trading has a different characteristic and requires a different set of skills. Generally there are mainly two types of option trading services. They are the call option and the put option....