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span.style4 {font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; } span.style5 {font-size: 10px} By Jonathan Moreland, founder of Insider Insights and author of Profit From Legal Insider Trading. NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- It is a victory for common sense. Tracking the trading behavior of company executives, directors and large shareholders in the stocks of firms they're registered in as "insiders" has proven to be profitable, according to both academic studies and (more importantly) the experience of professional investors. Click to view a price quote on EOX. Click to research the Energy industry.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Options are generally the province of investment pros. But don't think they can't be used by the rest of us in simple and fundamental ways that can protect your portfolio of generating cash. One strategy to get some cash while protecting yourself from a correction in the market would be to put a collar on an S&P 500 ETF. One of the most popular of the ETFs that track the S&P 500 is the SPDR S&P 500 or the State Street Global Advisors S&P 500. This strategy assumes that you already own the S&P 500. If so, sell the December 175 calls for about $3.17 (per share as of the close on Thursday). There are 100 shares in each call contract, so at $3.17 per share, selling the December 175 calls would net you about $3,170 per contract. In this part of the trade, you are selling another investor the right to participate in the upside of the S&P 500 at a level of 1,770, about 5% from Thursday's level (a traditional covered call writing strategy). >>Also see: Abercrombie Forced to Apologize >> Click to view a price quote on SPY. Click to research the Financial Services industry.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Here are 10 things you should know for Friday, May 24: 1. -- U.S. stock futures were pointing to a lower open Friday and signaling a third day of declines for the S&P 500 as investors awaited a report on durable-goods orders. Sentiment remained subdued as the market continued to ponder the possibility of a pullback in Federal Reserve stimulus and remained jittery about the state of China's economic strength. Click to view a price quote on S. Click to research the Telecommunications industry.

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- U.S. stock futures were eying a lower open Friday and signaling a third day of declines for the S&P 500 as investors awaited a report on durable-goods orders. Sentiment remained subdued as the market continued to ponder the possibility of a pullback in Federal Reserve stimulus and remained jittery about the state of China's economic strength. Futures for the S&P 500 were falling 5.25 points, or 3.46 points below fair value, to 1,644.75. The index remains in positive territory for the week and the month. "The Fed Chairman (Ben Bernanke) had made perfectly sensible comments, suggesting that liquidity would be withdrawn when the economy did not need it, but markets perhaps wanted an excuse to correct," noted Paul Donovan, the London-based global economist at UBS. Click to view a price quote on ^DJI.

5. Abercrombie's Airhead Michael Jeffries may publicly state that his primary goal is selling the "cool kid" aspiration. Nevertheless, we here at the Dumbest Lab know what really drives the Abercrombie & Fitch CEO, and it's more Tattoo from Fantasy Island than teen fantasy. Yeah, you guessed it. The plane! The plane! Click to view a price quote on ANF. Click to research the Retail industry.