Posts Tagged ‘ETFs’
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
