While I was in Canada last week, Smart Profits readers sure did pound the mailbag! I returned to find several questions to my recent column on how to execute covered call trades. For example, one reader wanted to know how options can work with short positions – and referenced doing so on Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY).

When you hear traders talk about the Greeks, they don’t mean Plato or Socrates.

There’s a debate brewing on Wall Street right now – it’s a fight over which way the market’s headed after it makes its way out of its current rut.

Let’s take a look at the positive action driving the markets…Just as I predicted, the broader U.S. stock market continues to surge higher.

Solar panels offer one of the most promising futures for electricity generation. And with future generations of panels, conversion rates will skyrocket while prices drop – allowing solar power to enter into the mainstream.

Before I go on I need to admit a bias. I think the market should tank. I really do. There is nothing in the economic news that inspires any semblance of “hope”. A rally right at this point  seems short sighted and foolish. In fact, sometimes it makes me so angry that I refuse to drink any coffee at all…

It was just last summer that everyone was talking about the outrageous prices of gasoline. But today the conversation has done a full 180 – prices couldn’t be cheaper. But after falling 73%, is oil a screaming buy?

When you rely upon charts to help you time buy and sell signals, you shouldn’t strictly look at the charts. You should also have an idea as to where you think the economy is heading so you can be sure to play the strongest trends. Here’s one idea I had which has played out phenomenally…

With over a trillion dollars in bank losses and foreclosures, bankruptcies, and unemployment all ticking higher by the day, you can be sure that the stock market should head down… over the long-term. But over the short-term, anything can happen…

Consumer shows spooky signs of weakness… recession now unavoidable? How’s your 401(k)? Some scary stats on the average retirement savings plan. Haunting mortgage data… 10 million Americans suffer “negative equity”. U.S. finance capitalism dead or dying… Byron King on the new paradigm for global economic power. Eric Fry on investing during the post-crash bounce. Plus, one “surefire” sector during these frightening times.