Being long. Indexes rallied nicely today and closed strong.
About 1.8% in the NDX and 3.5% in the SPX, while the RUT did 4%. It looked sketchy this morning when the market started to selloff, but it hung in there and performed the rest of the day. Some notable laggards on the NDX today were GOOG [...]

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Not too much today. Longs in the indexes are bouncing back.
Sold the MRK calls at 2.8 for a gain of 22%
Bought AAPL Feb 130 call options this morning when AAPL was down @ 5.95 currently up about 9%.
FRPT up over 4% right now.

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Being long. The gap up this morning was a way out I didn’t take it though. Took a 4% hit on the NDX funds and a 3% hit on the SPX funds. Of course the RUT is now outperforming other indices.
Pretty much everything I tried buying today turned into a loss.
NOEC - Which I was [...]

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Markets are screaming higher today.
SPLS - Staples is up another 5.4% today based on Goldman Sachs upgrade raising them to the top of their retail buy list. Thats 22% in two trading days off the bottom. I hate being early.
SNDK - Breaking a downward trendline today and the buy signal went on a few days [...]

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If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the market. With the Dow down 311 points, the SPX down 35 points, the RUT down 21 points, and the COMPX down 49 points, I’m posting a stock list of buys. I see alot of potential trades tonight for obvious reasons, so I’ll throw them into [...]

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I bought BIOM, Biomira, the company developing Stimuvax, a cancer drug for Merk Kga, for my second portfolio and my IRA. In at $1.188 in both accounts.

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