Worked:
Being long the NDX and RUT for a 6% gain.
DRYS option calls good for 47% overnight.
CPST, JOYG, DAR, KOL all moved higher. These 4 are either at or above 52 week highs.
GILD had great earnings, but no AH action yet.
Sucked:
Not being heavily long in the indexes. To be fair it was very unclear to me [...]

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Bought:
GILD @ 50.53
POWI @ 30.32. POWI is  Power Integrations Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary, high-voltage, analog integrated circuits (IC) for use primarily in alternating current (AC)-direct current (DC) and DC-DC power conversion in the consumer, communications, computer, and industrial electronics markets in North America and internationally.
Sold:
CREE - @ 29.15 for 1.8% gain on [...]

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Worked:
Not being heavy long. I cut back on my index longs by about 80% yesterday at the close. That preserved most of the gains made over the last 3 days.
CREE - Popped nice today. It was a good move getting back in when CREE broke upwards. Up 7% on the fresh buy. Since this was [...]

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Really this is a late day update, but wth.
Bought more CAT @ 76.89 and 76.77. CAT up 1% since then.
CREE popping today don’t know why.
Semis dipping today.
DRYS looks interesting again.
JRCC looks like a buy today.
ABAT looks like a buy today as well.

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Worked:
Long the indexes and going back into them yesterday for extra 1% in the NDX and RUT today. I cut back my longs severely at the close. Who knows what will happen tomorrow, but if we get a selloff, I’m buying it.
Bought:
CAT @ 76.79 down a little on the trade.
VLO - I sold VLO for [...]

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What didn’t work? Nearly everything was up big today for me.
6% gains in the NDX and RUT. Half of that was only a gain of 5%, while the QLD and UWM both gained at least 6% this morning as they outpaced their benchmark indexes.
GILD - I sold it today in a slight panic. It was [...]

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Sold:
UWM and QLD for gains of more than 6%. There was a big discrepancy between the pricing of UWM and the RUT this morning. Sometimes that price difference normalizes in favor of the RUT and then the UWM would drop. I took the extra gain in the UWM. << semi dumb move. Right now UWM [...]

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Worked:
AMAT, VLO, not being in SJT or other oil related stuff. (Crude dropped to 101 today. I said it would trade to 100.)
INTC  - Moved nicely today.
Sucked:
YHOO calls expired worthless…no deal from MS to save me. 100% loss.
CREE - POPPED 9% today! F$CK! Guess what? I bought it back for a different account this morning [...]

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Worked:
It was a sweet move cashing out of the longs this morning because the market dumped hard. Saved myself more than a 5% loss. Thats a nice swing for my account.
VLO - Calls. Made 52% overnight from yesterday’s buy and sold it friggin perfectly @ 4.12. VLO was up over 4% earlier then finished down [...]

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Worked:
AAPL - Continue to hold it. News out tomorrow on AAPL that they are releasing developer tools that will allow people to build apps for the iPhone. This is a big deal. Lets see if the market interprets it this way as well. Up 1.75%
AMZN - Out at 65.34 for a 3% gain.
AMAT - Continued [...]

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Worked:
3 stocks that begin with the letter A
Bought AMZN @ 63.27 up 3.2% now. Big volume started coming around midday. I jumped in immediately. I had 5%+ in my pocket, but left the trade on and went to lunch when I came back AMZN was around the 4% mark and just hovered. I kept it [...]

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I did the Happy Leap Year thing too early. Most everything sucked from me as I have this mental block to go short for some odd reason. I’ve made more money shorting than going long actually, but this year and late 07 I can’t seem to make the switch. So I got hit with [...]

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Happy leap year! Excuse the quick wrap up. I’m exhausted today, it must be the extra day in the month.
Worked:
AAPL Calls - I sold near the open for 125% gain overnight. However, there was more gain to be had in the neighborhood of over 200%.
QQQQ Calls - I bought near the end of [...]

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Worked:
I didn’t get a chance to do a Midday Update today because of family matters.
I also didn’t cash out of my index longs this morning and it worked out for the better. The NDX gained about .66% and a 2% gain for RUT just padded my trade. It looks like we have more coming too. [...]

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Being long. I wish I covered my index longs this morning. I contemplated it, but hung on. Still made money between my split positions of NDX and RUT. I am actually more skewed towards RUT about 60/40 and RUT closed up 1.6% and NDX down 1.4% so ka ching on the spread.
YGE - Nailed the [...]

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