Posts Tagged ‘dis’


Posted by StockRake on May 23, 2011 in Trades

A Sample Of My Crystal Ball

I closed half my index shorts this morning (I was 100% short in these accounts) and closed out all other positions – EDZ, SMN, DIS puts, QID. My equity trading accounts unfortunately only had about 25% capital available at the time to trade, so all of what was available was short in some way. The …

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Posted by StockRake on July 2, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options, Trades

No Bounce Yet

Today sucked. My expectations were broken pretty much right away as the pattern did not play out as intended. Then very late in the day the market rallied off the lows and the indexes went green. Per the pattern that I am playing the bounce was actually too little of a move, so I’m glad …

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Posted by StockRake on March 9, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

I Only Own One Stock

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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Posted by StockRake on March 8, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

A Good Day Despite A Flat Tape Thanks To $RIMM

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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Posted by StockRake on March 3, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options, Technical Analysis, Trades

Long Oil, Gold, Gas

I got long the US markets, USO, and GOLD via DGP last Friday as well as relative plays with CZZ, CLNE (which I’m now out of, but looking to rebuy), ABAT just because, and ERX (triple energy etf). Today I bought a few things from some of the charts I posted to Chart.ly last night. …

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