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Disclosure: I’m short. Rather heavy so read this post knowing my bias. I’ll be short for a very short period of time. The leading stocks of the September 2010 up move are leading the pullback. Stocks like NFLX, OPEN, ARUN, AMZN, PCLN, FCX, and many more are having dark cloud cover patterns. Hopefully a weekly …

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Is it disheartening to have been heavily short since Friday taking in great gains, but then only to miss the largest move of the entire week (10% RUT)? Yes. My index fund account is at a yearly high, but today would have given that great boost for the year. I was especially angry considering there …

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Cashed out of my 2x index funds which I got back into last Friday. Overall the trade produced some nice gains. I sold out of my IWM puts, TZA, and DRV overnight. I panicked a little in the morning and dumped my TZA and some DRV at profit in the premarket. Then took a loss …

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The best thing I ever did in the last 3 days was not panic out of my short thesis. I kept the 2x NDX/RUT shorts from yesterday (heavy 100%) collecting 6% in each index. Haven’t seen a move like this in quite awhile. I was also long EWZ puts, long POT puts, long EPV, long …

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Took a shot at the short side and it ended up being a face ripping rally. I came in this morning long iwm, spy puts and heavy short index 2x funds as well as long certain stocks, but was leaned more towards the short side. Signals, not the good ones, leaned that way for a …

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