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The plan was semi-laid out last night. Bought at the close: -EPV (a 2x inverse MSCI etf) which gives me my short EWI (Italy), EWP (Spain), EWQ (France), EWG (Germany) exposure. -BZQ -Put spread in FXI -EWZ puts I also got short this morning the 2x RUT and 2x NDX which makes up for yesterday’s …

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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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Took a shot at the short side and it ended up being a face ripping rally. I came in this morning long iwm, spy puts and heavy short index 2x funds as well as long certain stocks, but was leaned more towards the short side. Signals, not the good ones, leaned that way for a …

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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 don’t see it on my charts now. I might have been hallucinating when I wrote that. However, this week is already starting out in an overheated way. The fact that this is happening usually says we close the week near the highs. If that happens it may set up that down week I’m looking …

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