Had a 30% index short, bumped it to 100% short this morning. Closed it completely today at the close because I really don’t have a good edge right now and wanted to trim risk. I was long FAZ coming in and sold it for a gain premarket. Then went back into premarket 2cents higher, then [...]

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I rolled my index cash to short, 2x NDX, 2x RUT at the close today. I closed up my gold positions taking 5%+ in the DGP, and breakeven in HL, just for protection. I closed my 2x and 3x Energy long positions REA, ERX, DBE, all for nice gains. I will be buying all of [...]

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I got out of nearly everything today except for 1 stock and that not stock isn’t anything special. Running for the exits? Not exactly. Just taking gains in the index longs, cutting the mediocre things, things that sucked (USO, FCX in and out), and taking gains in the things that rocked (C calls, AIG, DIS [...]

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I understand why some people might not understand my techniques. I don’t share them in detail. You only get to watch. How does one go from being bearish on February 23rd, explaining my reasons on Feb 25th why I am turning bullish, to being bullish on Feb 26th and buying things for the following week? [...]

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The morning started out right and tight. I woke up late about 9:45, the overnight shorts started to work and I pressed my positions with SDS calls, SSO puts, IWM puts, TZA, and DTO/USO puts. Everything except the crude shorts were profitable when I cashed out around 10:30ish (BZQ, FAZ, etc). The crude related shorts [...]

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There are bad trend breaks everywhere. GOOG for one. I posted this chart to chart.ly near the close. After posting it, I bought 1 OTM call in GOOG. As I thought the risk/reward was worth it. It was. Even though the call will probably be near worthless tomorrow, the idea was worthy. Below you can [...]

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I took the index longs to cash Friday morning which ended up not being as smart of a move as just leaving them long till the close. However, I went back to a long position in the funds, thinking we get a currency related Santa Clause rally this week. By currency related, I mean reversion [...]

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