Posts Tagged ‘puts’


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 March 2, 2011 in Market Comments, Technical Analysis, Trades

Still Short After All These Hours

Still short the 2x funds, TZA, EDZ. I sold out of TYP and some TZA today panicking thinking I was wrong, but thankfully kept it all in other accounts. Then at the precise moment that the market decided to go red I bought IWM puts. I sold near the bottom which basically made my day …

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Posted by StockRake on April 27, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

Get Your Helmets Ready

Get your helmets ready, because the bear shitters finally got a worthy down day and this time, things look different. First thing I did was sell my MSPD in the premarket for 4%. What an asshole move that was. MSPD closed up 17.87% today. Geez. Johnny Sell Early. What I did today also was retreat …

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Posted by StockRake on April 19, 2010 in Agriculture Stocks, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

Was Short Coming Into Today

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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Posted by StockRake on April 12, 2010 in Energy, ETFs, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Trades

I’m Short Overnight

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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