Posts Tagged ‘ETFs’


Posted by StockRake on February 26, 2011 in Trades

I Swapped To The Short Side

This is a slight chance I’m taking here going short. The trend is still up, but the reasons I see are one major crackage in breadth – number of stocks turning up vs turning down, several indicators I look at on weekly and daily time frames are deteriorating, and the bounce today was good in …

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Posted by StockRake on June 30, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs

Triple Leveraged Treasury ETFs

Are you interested in trading treasury movements? Treasuries are what would be considered a 1x beta trade. It is very safe and the price movement is very small compared to your usual stock. However, Direxion has 4 triple leveraged options so that now the lame moves that Treasuries normally have, are juiced 3x whatever its …

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Posted by StockRake on June 28, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds

100% Short, 30% Nervous About It

If you watch the market closely you know the market is at a critical point. I’m trying to focus beyond the short term here though. If I step back I’m seeing many many stocks that are beginning a pattern similar to MON did months ago. There are many inverse ETFs looking like they want to …

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Posted by StockRake on May 10, 2010 in Brazil Stocks, China Stocks, Commodity Stocks, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options, Technical Analysis, Trades

Back To Cash, Gold, Inverse Emerging Markets

Took gains in everything this morning. 2x funds SPX, NDX, and RUT at the morning price. Although waiting until the end of the day would have yielded better returns, I wasn’t about to chance losing the 8-9% morning gain. I also took my gains in X calls, CENX stock, TEVA spread, and took a small …

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Posted by StockRake on May 5, 2010 in Market Comments

Another Down Day

As predicted we had another down day. I covered my FXP, EPV, EUO calls, and BZQ. All ETFs for greater than 10% gains, and the EUO calls earned 49%. These were all pretty much 2-3 day trades. Now that the market got a little overcooked to the downside, I took some small long positions. PAL …

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