Posts Tagged ‘hpq’


Posted by StockRake on September 30, 2009 in Casino Stocks, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options, Trades

Making Money In An Insane Tape

As the volatility picks up we get these large back and forth intraday moves. I took my heavy shorts to cash this morning. You can see via twitter here. Banking the beautiful 4% move in the RUT 2x, and > 2% in the NDX 2x. I sold my FAZ for 4%, TZA for 3-4%. Held …

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Posted by StockRake on September 28, 2009 in Options, Trades

Testing New Ideas

I’m testing some new ideas here. STLD is showing signs of weakness. On a bounce it looks like a short. I will likely play this though another way. This must put in at least a 1 day bounce before I get interested in shorting it. Which means long SMN. I’m also getting interested in SRS. …

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Posted by StockRake on May 19, 2009 in Biotech Stocks, Gold Stocks, Trades

Sell Signals and Covered Profits In Junk Portfolio

At the close both SRS and FAZ went on buy signals and now I see in the afterhours BAC did a secondary priced 10%+ lower than its close AND HPQ is lower in the AH. This might be a spot where I’ll look to get short again tomorrow and I’m not looking for armageddon either. …

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Posted by StockRake on October 25, 2007 in What Worked Today

What Worked Today 10252007

MSFT – The stock has moved higher since my buy. MSFT was up 11% afterhours. Thats absolutely insane. However, their earnings were insane so it matched. I bought the MSFT Nov 35s for .16 today, those will likely be up really big tomorrow. To shore up confusion, I own the equity and long call options. …

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