Alternative Energy


Posted by StockRake on March 28, 2011 in Alternative Energy, Financials, Trades

Good Trade, Bad Trade So Far

The day started out awesome. FSLR was up 3 bucks pre market and I left the house to run some errands. Around 10:00am I’m looking at my iStockManager and I see I’m up 70% on the FSLR calls, YGE is rocking, GS and MS calls are all positive, but not stellar, IBN doing ok, and …

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Posted by StockRake on February 16, 2011 in Alternative Energy, Gold Stocks, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

Position Update

Long: 50% 2x NDX, RUT funds. Made a mistake cutting back from 100% position, but was really being a chicken. At least I’m long riding signals I can’t complain. SOL which I added to today. JASO which I sold half of today. GBG REE small leftover position VALE March 35 calls Stocks I’m Scouting: TC, …

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Posted by StockRake on February 4, 2011 in Alternative Energy, Gold Stocks, Leveraged Funds, Solar Stocks, Technical Analysis, Trades

The Gold Move

From my perspective the trade is over. I’m not saying gold won’t move higher from here. I’m saying from my buys last Friday and Monday of all the gold stocks, that reason for those buys is over and the up move has sufficed the particular buy patterns. The trades I executed were: GDX, GFI, ABX, …

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Posted by StockRake on January 24, 2011 in Alternative Energy, Leveraged Funds, Trades

Basically Look At My Last 10 Solar Stock Posts

I sold my index shorts at the close today for a loss of -2.8% on the NDX portion, and -1.6% for the RUT. This was roughly a 30% overall short trade, so not too bad of a hit. In other good news, I’m still long all my solar stocks, most bought on 12-31-10: JASO, SOL, …

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Posted by StockRake on January 22, 2011 in Alternative Energy, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

Index Trade Fresh Short, Still Long Solars

Went short via the 2x inverse NDX and RUT at the close today with a smallish position. Still long solar stocks and will cut them if we breakdown. Also have URZ, TTM, MCD, PWER. I sold my HAS calls for I think -48%, ABX calls went out today near 25%, holding DRI calls. I saw …

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