I was heavy long from Friday coming into today. I sold everything at and before the morning window at Rydex which is 10:45. I took in gains of near 3.8% in the 2x funds on average with my $RUT, $NDX, $SPX spread. I also dumped all my call positions making money on LVS, XLK, GOOG, [...]

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I came into today 50% long in my Rydex account and one select long with JCP calls. JCP looked good right out of the gate and I then went into TNA and LVS calls. The market started out with this lame up move, but LVS calls were ripping. I didn’t take the gains. I ended [...]

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I came into today only long some CHK calls. They were up over 40% at one point today and finished negative at the close with the market selloff. I kept them. I think the market is going higher, but my confidence level is not particularly high. I’m only looking for a quick move upwards that [...]

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I wanted to do more, but held back. I’m playing CLF with June calls and a WLT June call spread based on an oversold trade. Again these are trades. I’m mostly in cash and these are speculative, but high odds pattern trades. Materials/Energy is oversold and these are ideal bounce plays. I kept the index [...]

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I got out of nearly everything today except for 1 stock and that not stock isn’t anything special. Running for the exits? Not exactly. Just taking gains in the index longs, cutting the mediocre things, things that sucked (USO, FCX in and out), and taking gains in the things that rocked (C calls, AIG, DIS [...]

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I understand why some people might not understand my techniques. I don’t share them in detail. You only get to watch. How does one go from being bearish on February 23rd, explaining my reasons on Feb 25th why I am turning bullish, to being bullish on Feb 26th and buying things for the following week? [...]

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The morning started out right and tight. I woke up late about 9:45, the overnight shorts started to work and I pressed my positions with SDS calls, SSO puts, IWM puts, TZA, and DTO/USO puts. Everything except the crude shorts were profitable when I cashed out around 10:30ish (BZQ, FAZ, etc). The crude related shorts [...]

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