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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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This is a slight chance I’m taking here going short. The trend is still up, but the reasons I see are one major crackage in breadth – number of stocks turning up vs turning down, several indicators I look at on weekly and daily time frames are deteriorating, and the bounce today was good in …

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Looking over my screens the list of potential plays that haven’t been in an uptrend yet is pretty thin. The number of stocks starting to turn downwards is beginning to grow. I’ve been skipping out on blogging on Fridays for the past several weeks/or months (not sure), but I cut my index longs by 50% …

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I was heavy long from Friday coming into today. I sold everything at and before the morning window at Rydex which is 10:45. I took in gains of near 3.8% in the 2x funds on average with my $RUT, $NDX, $SPX spread. I also dumped all my call positions making money on LVS, XLK, GOOG, …

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Today sucked. My expectations were broken pretty much right away as the pattern did not play out as intended. Then very late in the day the market rallied off the lows and the indexes went green. Per the pattern that I am playing the bounce was actually too little of a move, so I’m glad …

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