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Good afternoon, this is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com, with a market update for November 4th. Well, November 4th is certainly close to the election now and the next time we get to chat we will know who is governing our great country, and the world for that matter, next time we speak. What is so interesting right now is we have investor after investor contacting both us and certainly conversations that you hear when you’re out and about. I know I sound like I’m from Canada- I’m really not. Talking about do you want a Clinton presidency or a Trump presidency to help the market… that part is certainly a difficult thing to understand. Quite often, the republican is considered bullish for the stock market and, lo and behold, the democrat wins and the stock market rallies, or sometimes vice versa. Once again, as Michael Gross and I continue to point out, that matters to us very little. What a lot of people right now are trying to do is diversify their portfolio, not only because there’s an election coming

Michael: Hello, this is Michael Gross here with James Cordier of OptionSellers.com. We’re here with your October edition of the Option Seller Radio Show. This will probably be or will be the final Podcast you’ll here from us prior to the election. The next time we speak we will have a new President-elect. We have a lot of things going on this month. Some investors worried about the stock market looking like it might be getting a little bit toppy, a lot of interest in diversification and uncorrelated assets. Right now, we’d like to talk to James a little bit. James, maybe just give your overview on the state of the markets right now leading up to the election. What’s your feel on just the general vibe right now? James: Well, Michael, quite often people try and front run the candidate who looks the best and some people actually, investors alike, want to try and take advantage of who they think is going to win the election. Quite often, what does best is when we have status quo. Quite often, everyone’s expectin

Welcome to Option Seller Radio, the podcast for high net-worth option writers. Here, you’ll learn option selling strategies you can use right now in diversified commodities markets, such as crude oil, gold, coffee, and soybeans. So, listen in and start putting decades of knowledge from the OptionSellers.com team to work for you. To learn more about OptionSellers.com, and their managed portfolios for high net-worth investors, visit www.optionsellers.com. Michael: Hello everyone, this is Michael Gross at OptionSellers.com here with your November issue of OptionSellers.com podcast. This is a special Thanksgiving edition and, boy, the world has turned upside down since our last radio show. The title of this month’s show is Trump, the Fed, and 2 BIG Markets for Taking Premium Now. I’m here with James Cordier, head trader here at OptionSellers.com. James, welcome to this month’s radio show. James: Thank you, Michael. It’s always a pleasure and, boy, have things changed since we met last. Michael: Well, if you

Good afternoon, this is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for August 29th. Well, in the last couple weeks we saw gold and silver finally knocked off its perch as the idea of no inflation, low commodity prices everywhere, and a very stable stock market have caused some people to cash in their chips on the two precious metals. The gold market was pushing up towards $1,400 and everyone was bullish. The silver market rallied up to $21 an ounce, and it appeared that both markets were going to continue rallying the rest of the year. We started to argue the fact that we expect energy prices at the end of the year to be low. Food prices are extremely low. One needs to simply look at the price of corn or protein markets, such as hogs or cattle, something we don’t trade but something we do follow. Also, the copper market is now pushing towards $2 a pound. That would be industrial inflation, or lack thereof. With prices of practically every commodity heading lower as we go into the 3rd and 4th

Michael: Hello, everybody. This is Michael Gross from OptionSellers.com, here with your August Option Seller Radio Show. I’m here with founder and head trader James Cordier and we’re going to talk a little bit about the markets here and things going on as we start September, back to school month, or, for a lot of investors and financial professionals, it’s back to work month. A lot of people go on vacation in August and when we get back in September it’s back to business. A lot of people start focusing on some of the stories they may have overlooked over the last month or two. James, welcome to the show – a lot to talk about this month. James: Thank you, Michael, there certainly is. Both markets moving, instruments happening, as well as the stock market, of course, the Federal Reserve is always interesting, and new highs in the stock market. We were talking recently about a couple articles that have some of the largest, most well known investors in the world saying that not only is the stock market going to

Good afternoon, this is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com, with a market update for August 11th. This past weekend, I was reading the Barron’s newspaper and came across a really interesting article. The article was named Billionaire Bears Club, and, as the name suggests, just that. It was talking to several of the very well known traders over the years that have amassed great fortunes by calling the market correctly. As the name suggests, you know what they were thinking. They were thinking to sell stocks and that we were about to go into a bear market. But what gives? Over the last few weeks the stock market, both S&P and Dow Jones, continues to make new all-time highs, yet all this bearishness from some people that should actually know which direction the stock market will be traveling. What’s so interesting right now is something called helicopter money is probably being the rationale for the market going up. Of course, all throughout the world, we have negative interest rates. Here in the United State

Michael: Hello, everyone. This is Michael Gross of OptionSellers.com, here with head trader of OptionSellers.com, James Cordier. We’re bringing you your monthly Option Sellers Radio Show. This is for the month of July. Today, we’re going to talk about quite a few things. I want to start off with the gold market, because, James, you were featured on CNBC this month talking about gold, taking a little bit less than bullish view on that. Is that still your view on the gold market right now? James: Well, Michael, as you know, everyone’s bullish gold simply because of 0% interest rates and negative interest rates around the world. The last time that quantitative easing was introduced in the United States, that’s what raised gold from $1,100 up to $1,900. Now, a lot of investors are thinking basically along the same lines. Quantitative easing was supposed to create inflation. Several years ago in the United States, when we went to QE, it didn’t happen. Now, I believe investors are falling maybe into the same trap,

Good afternoon. This is James Cordier with OptionSellers.com with a market update for July 7th. During our last update, I ventured a guess that when we look back on the months of June and July that we’re going to see that commodities and commodity volatility likely hit a crescendo. With the Brexit now behind us and the dust starting to clear, at my desk it’s starting to look more and more likely that that’s going to be the case. Coming November and December, we’re going to look back on June and July and that was quite an event. The volatility that spiked during this event was likely the high of the year. 2 things that we know now about the Brexit now that it has come and gone is: 1) Owning commercial real estate that houses banking in London is probably not feeling very good right now. 2) The other thing that we’ve learned from it is an already sluggish global economy is going to likely slow even more because of the deals that Great Britain had with the rest of the world, and they’re apt to be re-written. I

If you are a high net worth investor, preserving and growing your wealth is likely a high priority for you. You worked hard for your money. Now you feel it should be working hard for you. But chasing maximum return and yield is hard, isn’t it? Stocks are great, until they aren’t. Getting responsibly diversified is more difficult than ever. Hedge funds can work, but you’re never really sure what they’re doing with your money. Options can be a great alternative, but most make the mistake of buying them. Stock option sellers may think they’ve found an answer, but premiums can be small, and margin requirements huge. Most will simply give up and settle for what they get. The market will decide their fate – it goes up, they will feel good. If it goes down, they will feel bad. However, if you always felt there was a better way to invest and all you had to do was find it, you may finally be home. It’s called selling options. Not in stocks, but in a completely separate asset class – commodities. This investment strate

Michael: Hello everyone, this is Michael Gross at OptionSellers.com. We’re here with your monthly Option Seller Radio Show for June. We have a lot of stuff to talk about here this month, simply because of the news going on this month. Probably first and foremost, James, what we want to talk about here is the FED decision or inaction, as we say. Obviously, that was a big topic on Investor Mines here in June. The FED did not act – the reasons why were kind of obvious to everyone so we don’t need to talk about it here. I think probably one of the first things we should talk about for out listeners is what the means for commodities right now. What’s the macro picture in commodities? James: Michael, the macro picture right now is perfectly mixed. We have 0% and negative interest rates all around the world, which is extremely the main reason why the Federal Reserve here won’t be raising interest rates at all this year, possibly once maybe after the election, something along those lines. U.S. companies certainly can

Michael: Hello everyone, this is Michael Gross of OptionSellers.com, here with your monthly guest expert interview. This month’s guest expert is Don Singletary, author of the Options Exposed Playbook. Don spent 25 years as a consultant for commercial commodity hedge plans, helping him to implement option strategies to lower cost and increase their efficiency. He has also spent much of that time as an individual options trader. He is going to bring a unique perspective on that to you today. Don, welcome to OptionSeller.com Guest Expert Series. Don: Well, thank you very much, Michael. I’m glad to be here. It’s my pleasure. Michael: Don, let’s start off by telling us a little bit about your background and how you got started in the trading industry. Don: Well, there is a lot to talk about today about options and making money, so I’ll get to the buy out part pretty quickly here. I started in broadcasting at the age of 15 and I grew up in a small town that only had 2 radio stations. I worked for both of them

Good afternoon. This is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for June 3rd. Later this year, we’re going to look back at the months of May and June. I think we’re going to see that we had quite a crescendo in option values as premiums have ballooned over the last 30 to 60 days, with much Fed talk trying to manipulate interest rates and manipulate the value of the dollar, and they’ve become very successful at this. Over the last several weeks, Fed Reserve Janet Yellen has been talking about raising rates. Whether they do or whether they don’t, they’ve been very successful in increasing the value of the dollar. This hawkish talk has brought down several commodities; namely, precious metals, and we now have a hawkish stance priced into both gold and silver. The gold market rallied briskly earlier this year, up to 1,300, and we now lost 100,000 contracts in open interest as people piling in with dovish talk have now left the market. Gold recently tested the $1,200 level recently, over the last

Bill: So what are these fires going to do to the price of oil as a factor? James Cordier, from OptionSellers.com, he thinks the wildfires there are giving oil a short-term string, and the headlines will be no match for the over-supply. In fact, you think we could see $35 again by the end of the year, don’t you? James: Bill, we certainly do. We’ve certainly had a seasonal rally. Last time we spoke to you we were back in January and we were talking about a seasonal rally starting in February, rallying into March and April. We’ve had that. The fundamentals have not changed that much from last winter when we were sitting around $30. There’s a lot being made about the smaller production in the United States. Of course, we’re losing some barrels out of Canada right now. But as we get past driving season, we’re going to have, once again, a glut of oil. We’re losing places to fill storage tanks around the world. Believe it or not, we’re starting to import oil here again, and I think this fall we’re going to have a b

Good afternoon this is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for May 20th, it’s so interesting to look back to the days where Alan Greenspan and Paul Volker were running the Federal Reserve. The stark contrast between what’s happening now and back then is just amazing. Of course this past week, again, the Federal Reserve decided to play with the markets by saying we may very well be raising interest rates this summer, you’ll just have to wait and see but we’re more likely to do that now than we were say a week ago. It’s so interesting computerized of buying and selling kicks in selling the stock market, selling gold and silver, selling crude oil, and buying the US dollar commodities basically are moving in lock step with what the Federal Reserve is saying or in fact what they’re pretending to say. At the end of the day interest rates in the united states are going to be on a very slow climb. Possibly quarter percent this summer possibly not possibly one in the fourth quarter maybe after th

If you are a high net worth investor, preserving and growing your wealth is likely a high priority for you. You worked hard for your money. Now you feel it should be working hard for you. But chasing maximum return and yield is hard, isn’t it? Stocks are great, until they aren’t. Getting responsibly diversified is more difficult than ever. Hedge funds can work, but you’re never really sure what they’re doing with your money. Options can be a great alternative, but most make the mistake of buying them. Stock option sellers may think they’ve found an answer, but premiums can be small, and margin requirements huge. Most will simply give up and settle for what they get. The market will decide their fate – it goes up, they will feel good. If it goes down, they will feel bad. However, if you always felt there was a better way to invest and all you had to do was find it, you may finally be home. It’s called selling options. Not in stocks, but in a completely separate asset class – commodities. This investment strate

Michael: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the monthly Option Seller Radio Show. This is Michael Gross here with James Cordier, coming to you from Tampa, Florida- our main office. We’re going to talk a little bit about the markets, a little bit about trading this month. Quite a bit going on, including what could be the final game of the series between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Pittsburgh Penguins. My colleague, James Cordier, happens to be a Tampa Bay Lightning fan, and, being from Pittsburgh originally, I’m a Pittsburgh Penguins fan. James, what do you think on the series possible finale tonight? James: Well, it’s interesting, Michael, we’re using our backup goalie and he had little butterflies the first game or two. He wasn’t getting any support from the other players, and finally he is, and certainly a great series right now. We’re ahead 3-2. We being the Tampa Bay Lightning. For your sake, I hope it goes a little bit further. For our sake, hopefully we get to win tonight and we get to watch for a day or

If you are a high net worth investor, preserving and growing your wealth is likely a high priority for you. You worked hard for your money. Now you feel it should be working hard for you. But chasing maximum return and yield is hard, isn’t it? Stocks are great, until they aren’t. Getting responsibly diversified is more difficult than ever. Hedge funds can work, but you’re never really sure what they’re doing with your money. Options can be a great alternative, but most make the mistake of buying them. Stock option sellers may think they’ve found an answer, but premiums can be small, and margin requirements huge. Most will simply give up and settle for what they get. The market will decide their fate – it goes up, they will feel good. If it goes down, they will feel bad. However, if you always felt there was a better way to invest and all you had to do was find it, you may finally be home. It’s called selling options. Not in stocks, but in a completely separate asset class – commodities. This investment strate

If you are a high net worth investor, preserving and growing your wealth is likely a high priority for you. You worked hard for your money. Now you feel it should be working hard for you. But chasing maximum return and yield is hard, isn’t it? Stocks are great, until they aren’t. Getting responsibly diversified is more difficult than ever. Hedge funds can work, but you’re never really sure what they’re doing with your money. Options can be a great alternative, but most make the mistake of buying them. Stock option sellers may think they’ve found an answer, but premiums can be small, and margin requirements huge. Most will simply give up and settle for what they get. The market will decide their fate – it goes up, they will feel good. If it goes down, they will feel bad. However, if you always felt there was a better way to invest and all you had to do was find it, you may finally be home. It’s called selling options. Not in stocks, but in a completely separate asset class – commodities. This investment strate

If you are a high net worth investor, preserving and growing your wealth is likely a high priority for you. You worked hard for your money. Now you feel it should be working hard for you. But chasing maximum return and yield is hard, isn’t it? Stocks are great, until they aren’t. Getting responsibly diversified is more difficult than ever. Hedge funds can work, but you’re never really sure what they’re doing with your money. Options can be a great alternative, but most make the mistake of buying them. Stock option sellers may think they’ve found an answer, but premiums can be small, and margin requirements huge. Most will simply give up and settle for what they get. The market will decide their fate – it goes up, they will feel good. If it goes down, they will feel bad. However, if you always felt there was a better way to invest and all you had to do was find it, you may finally be home. It’s called selling options. Not in stocks, but in a completely separate asset class – commodities. This investment strate

Good afternoon. This is James Cordier of OptionSellers.com with a market update for May 1st. The commodity bear market of 2015 has certainly ended here in the first and second quarter of 2016. Quite often, as the dollar weakens, a lot of investors do go into commodities. They usually start with precious metals and work their way down. I think gold was the first market to rally this year, and now we have corn, soybeans, cocoa, sugar, and crude oil all following along very nicely. The fundamentals in commodities right now have improved slightly, and the thinking there is that the Chinese economy has stopped falling and is about to get slightly better. How many commodities do they need, do they need steel, do they need iron ore, do they need copper? Probably not; however, they did let a lot of their surplus of supplies dwindle, and now they’re probably restocking and that’s probably a big push to the upside right now in commodities. The other driving force to higher commodity prices is the weaker U.S. Dollar