Posts Tagged ‘capitulation’


Posted by StockRake on October 9, 2008 in Market Comments

I Want To Know How Many Stock Bloggers Are Quitting Today

I’m getting rolled over today in my position. Going long at the exact wrong time, but I’m not done. I’ve just lost profits and with today’s down move I’m cutting into core money now. I feel terrible for anyone caught in this – including me. If there are any stock bloggers that are quitting, it …

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Posted by StockRake on October 8, 2008 in Options, Stock Comments

Looking At SPY and NDX Call Options

If the market has one more big afternoon to the downside. Not only will true panic happen, but I think it will finally cause the capitulation. I’m looking at SPY and NDX calls here if that scenario materializes and the reason I sold my leveraged ETF’s, even after getting my nuts squashed by an elephant …

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Posted by StockRake on October 8, 2008 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Market Comments

Global Coordinated Rate Cut and Futures Selloff

In this bizarro world, there was a coordinated global rate cut of a 1/2 point this morning. The futures were up and have sold off. European markets went negative after the news. Nikkei dropped 9.4% overnight the worst selloff since 1987. If yesterday wasn’t capitulation, today is probably going to be. It flat out sucks …

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Posted by StockRake on October 6, 2008 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Stock Comments, Technical Analysis

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Lets start out with the Ugly. – Dow down 800 points at the lows of the day. – New lows vs New highs were extremely lopsided – VIX, VXN both made new highs. Now the Bad. – We didn’t see capitulatory volume. – Market rallied way off its lows. – I had to eat 8% …

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Posted by StockRake on July 18, 2008 in Alternative Energy, coal stocks, Market Comments, Oil Stocks, Trades

Thanks For The 43 Points Nasdaq, Cya Next Week

Well on the week to week basis we got the rebound I was expecting. On a week over week basis, the RUT gained 19 points, and the SPX gained 21 points. However, things like the UYG did 14.6%. So certain items this week exploded while others were just good. I flipped to a small index …

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