Posts Tagged ‘pullback’


Posted by StockRake on April 6, 2011 in Leveraged Funds, Options, Technical Analysis, Trades

Leading Stocks Are Signaling A Pullback

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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Posted by StockRake on January 17, 2011 in Technical Analysis

The Technical Position Of APPL

You already know why AAPL will be down tomorrow, so lets skip that and cut to the charts. Here is what you can expect from AAPL if history has anything to say about it. Look for a 20 dollar pullback or 8.6% pullback. The lighter pink is an even hotter condition and why it tends …

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Posted by StockRake on January 10, 2011 in Alternative Energy, Oil Stocks, Solar Stocks, Technical Analysis

My Solar Trades Are Working Well, Now Oil Needs To Move

My solar trades initiated on Dec 31st 2010 are working very well. SOL is up 21% and 20.5% SOLR is up 18% SSN is up 11.5% UCO is essentially flat (bought on 12-21 tho) USO calls are down 43% so wish I did a call spread here AUGT (non oil/solar mobile stock is rocking) 57% …

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Posted by StockRake on October 4, 2010 in Leveraged Funds, Market Comments, Trades

Not Fearing The Pullback, Not Yet Is The Key Phrase

Based on what I’m supposed to do, I should be ignoring whatever pullback happens until it breaks. So currently I don’t care about the pullback. One thing I am concerned about is the negative divergence in the daily RSI (pick your setting). On 9-23-10 the COMPX closed lower than where we closed today, yet the …

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Posted by StockRake on May 4, 2009 in Alternative Energy, Gold Stocks, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Mining Stocks, Oil Stocks, Stock Market Charts, Tech Stocks

Things That Worked, Things That Didn’t

I already mentioned last week about the great movers I sold too early. Tack on another stock I had in my account that I sold too soon. CPSL A couple things happened today. My index shorts got blitzed today. I ate an 8% loss on my RUT short and 4.4% on my NDX short. I’m …

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