Posts Tagged ‘losses’


Posted by StockRake on August 23, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

Still Short Heavy and Starting To Pay Off

I’m still short (heavy since 8-14-10 close). Today I panicked a little bit and closed out my FXP, FAZ, and EDZ with the morning pop. I also sold VXX as well, but I didn’t tweet it. Losses were all small in FAZ, VXX, and some EDZ positions that were bought late Friday. However, I had …

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Posted by StockRake on December 3, 2008 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

Market Slaps Bears

The market decided to slap bears around today and I got caught on the wrong side – 6% hit. I also took my losses in all the ETFs I mentioned earlier today about 6% as well there. I made 7.6% on TNA early this morning. —- Levels I’m looking for tomorrow. A trade of SPX …

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Posted by StockRake on October 8, 2008 in Leveraged ETFs, Trades

Sold Into The Pop

I sold my leveraged ETFs into the pop this morning taking losses in the 16-21% variety. No more SSO, QLD, UWM. All cash there. However, I still hold leveraged mutual funds and I only do that because of the timing issues. I plan to buy back these leveraged ETF’s if we get a shit storm …

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Posted by StockRake on August 6, 2007 in What Sucked Today

What Sucked Today 862007

Cashing out on Friday. I was more afraid of the technical damage and thought we were going lower. I knew it was oversold, but the market was oversold a week before that and still got hammered. Todays action would have given my index fund trading a nice jolt back up to my comfortable zone of …

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