Tag Archives: Banco Santander

What Have I Done This Year ?

This post is to have an overview of my latest actions year to date. Sometimes I am under the impression that I do little, which actually is a very nice feeling. I prefer inaction and to just do things after … Continue reading

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Recent Portfolio Actions With DELL, AXP and SAN

I sold at a decent profit five deep in the money Banco Santander Jan 2014 strike 5 calls bought in April when SAN was near its lows. I did not like the fact that the calls are not adjusted when … Continue reading

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Some Thoughts On Europe

As a reply to Jimbot’s comment to my article Think Of Your Portfolio As A Business I wrote these thoughts on a possible Euro break up: ******************** Hi @Jimbot, Thanks my 4th kid is really lovely , another man, I’m … Continue reading

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Some Thoughts About South American Banks

As a result of the question: ****************** I want to take this chance to ask you a quick question regarding South American banking stocks. Basically, I am putting together a short list of strong banks I want to invest in … Continue reading

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Added Banco Santander and initiated Tesco Plc

Today I added 5 Banco Santander strike 5 ADR call options with strike Jan 2014, bought at 220 dollars each. The bad thing: First of all let me say, that the script dividend achieves nothing, they only print shares and … Continue reading

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Current market thoughts and some protective actions

I have hardly written lately because my time is taken by reading. Here are some books and the authors I recently read: 1) Human Action from Ludwig Van Mises. Fortunately this genius was brought to my attention by Phil Carret, … Continue reading

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Shorting treasury bonds becoming serious & other weekly comments

30 year treasuries are now yielding 3.3%, the only “recent” time they yielded less was in the end 2008 / begin 2009 when they yielded a few days under 2.85%, due mainly to safe haven panic buying, and only in … Continue reading

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Deuda soberana y España

Esta es una conversacion por email con un tio mio que vive en Espana: Buenos dias jrvito, Que tal estais todos. Bieke i Miró bien? Hace dias que se está hablando hasta la saturación de la situación económica actual y … Continue reading

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