Being LONG! Another great trading day today except this time big gains in the indexes and better profits on the equity trades. The markets soared today, but they really soared from the morning Rydex trading window at 10:45. The NDX was down 2% at that moment and its where I added to my NDX longs. [...]

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DRYS - Ripping higher again another 5%. This was a nice call. 26+ up since buy.
EMKR - Up 11% right now, up 14% from yesterday’s buy.
Bought: HOKU @ 9.55, LULU @ 31.87, CROX Feb 35 calls (small position) @ 1.3, ADDED to my NDX long @ 1792
Sold: JRJC @ 15.55 for a loss of 7%, [...]

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Just wanted to post a correction that I didn’t hold LULU overnight like I thought originally.
BTW EMKR is smoking this morning which was a overnight hold.

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I thought this was funny.
New York Times originally publishes the story that stocks rally on Fed cut, gets picked up by Google News, but by the time you clicked on the story NYT had the story changed. Thats the type of day it was, up big, then down, then back up bigger, then back down, [...]

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Well being the long the NDX and SPX didn’t work, but it was a rather good trading for me aside from that. However, the SPX took a 1% loss and the NDX gained a few pennies. In case you missed it, the market popped big after the Fed cut, but sold off after the bond [...]

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Bought: JADE @ 3.26, EMKR @ 11.94, JRJC @ 16.75, LULU @ 30.94, QLD @ 74.36 (rushed trade), Bought more AAPL Feb 135’s @ 4.4 - they are bidding 4.15 now, but based on my avg buy up 4.2% right now on the total call position.
Sold: Some of my DRYS @ 67.2 for a gain [...]

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Being long. The indexes put in a decent day today. I got a little more on my index trades.
AAPL - Selling those Feb 130s for a 12.5% gain.
FRPT - Good trade, it looks like there is more room up. 5.7% gain.
I rebought AAPL calls, but this time the Feb 135s @ 4.05
People have been [...]

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Bought VRUS @ 28.58, XFML @ 5.27, ZIXI @ 3.515
Sold VRUS @ 27.5 for a loss of 3.7%,  AAPL Feb 130’s @ 6.4 for a gain of 12.5%, Sold BSC Feb 90 calls @ 5.6 for a gain of 14% overnight, ZIXI @ 3.53 for 0%, FRPT @ 4.6 for 5.7% gain.
Still have XFML and [...]

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I talked about the dry bulk shippers at their bottoms and how they were raging buys on the 18th when I first bought DRYS, again on the 19th,  again on the 22nd, and finally on the 23rd.
DSX up 7%, QMAR up 19.78% because EXM is buying them - NICE BUY EXM!, DRYS up over 6%m [...]

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Being long. Indexes rallied nicely today and closed strong.
About 1.8% in the NDX and 3.5% in the SPX, while the RUT did 4%. It looked sketchy this morning when the market started to selloff, but it hung in there and performed the rest of the day. Some notable laggards on the NDX today were GOOG [...]

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Not too much today. Longs in the indexes are bouncing back.
Sold the MRK calls at 2.8 for a gain of 22%
Bought AAPL Feb 130 call options this morning when AAPL was down @ 5.95 currently up about 9%.
FRPT up over 4% right now.

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Being long. The gap up this morning was a way out I didn’t take it though. Took a 4% hit on the NDX funds and a 3% hit on the SPX funds. Of course the RUT is now outperforming other indices.
Pretty much everything I tried buying today turned into a loss.
NOEC - Which I was [...]

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Bought DSTI @ 3.78, HOKU @ 9.32, CTDC @ 5.83, FRPT @ 4.34
Sold most of my IBKR @ 31.6 taking a 3% or so loss on that portion, RIMM @ 98.48 good for 12%
I thought Solar stocks would see more action today based on WFR.
Interested in: AEO, ARO, URBN, BA, CROX, ACI, JOYG, CLF, BCS, [...]

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Being long. The NDX rolled up nicely today playing catchup.
Its been a nice bounce and it looks like we’re going to get at least another day with MSFT crushing the earnings report.
I talked about it yesterday: “MSFT - Still got it, up meagerly. MSFT reports tomorrow after the bell. I’ll be looking at buying call [...]

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What a friggin day today was. I thought it was going to turn into a sucks post, but I was right. Today was an excellent reversal day. Dow down 300, NDX down 5%+, at one point today only to close up Dow +299, and NDX down only .34%.
I went long the indexes on Friday and [...]

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