Posts Tagged ‘afterhours’


Posted by StockRake on October 13, 2009 in Financials, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Trades

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Of Today’s Trading

The Good That whopper of a BAC put trade I made yesterday? Well you don’t know that it was a whopper, but it was large compared to my usual trade size when it comes to directional call or put buying ended up very profitable this morning. I mentioned what I did yesterday with this chart: …

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Posted by StockRake on December 12, 2008 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

Breaking Levels In The Afterhours

I covered my FAZ and QID as well as my index fund shorts at the close and flipped some index short money to long. The reason I did that was that all levels I was looking for held up. That level was 873.29 on the SPX. So that was my reason for the flip to …

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Posted by StockRake on September 10, 2008 in Financials, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Trades

Very Nice Down Day

Well the shorts worked out great today. The RUT was good for 7%, and the NDX was for 4.7%. I like to eat whoppers and we got one in the market today. Yesterday I posted about selling out of the ETF’s, I didn’t exactly sell everything. I had a small QID position as well as …

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Posted by StockRake on July 22, 2008 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options, Technical Analysis, Trades

I Got Smoked Today!

Wow the RUT was curiously strong today….my RUT short got spanked for -5.5% today while the NDX although was looking at a 3% gain this morning turned into a flat pancake by the close. A very strong move came into the close and who knows why? IMO, we didn’t move up enough last week to …

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Posted by StockRake on July 16, 2008 in Market Comments

Unleash, The Kracken

Market moving very well right now. Financials got a wee boost from NTRS and WFC today (if you don’t know those symbols look em up because its part of your job). Oil has cracked for the time being. The action I saw in the DUG yesterday was telling. However, I did not post about it …

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