Posts Tagged ‘short’


Posted by StockRake on April 7, 2009 in Market Comments

Short Hedges Removed

I have no short hedges on anymore – I chucked my NDX hedge. I flipped my short hedges to long. I figured this pullback would come, its here, and now time to burn off a few days before more upside occurs. Long NDX and RUT HEAVY. I stopped out of APWR this morning, and rebought …

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Posted by StockRake on May 5, 2008 in What Sucked Today, What Worked Today

A Pretty Lame Day

What a new title? Something different? Yeh I’ll try it. What Worked Today: Going short this morning with the indexes. Made a little bit of scratch there. QQQQ puts – Got in the May 48s saw 11%, well my computer did, I was working out when the price action hit, but managed to sneeze out …

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Posted by StockRake on August 14, 2007 in Leveraged ETFs, What Worked Today

What Worked Today 8142007

Being short. Today was another good move – better than yesterday. 3.4% in NDX inverse funds and more than 4% in the RUT inverse funds. We did see exact low closes today across most indexes. I’m looking for new lows tomorrow but a higher close off those lows. If we get a down morning I’ll …

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Posted by StockRake on February 27, 2007 in Market Comments

The Put Options Are Rocking Up 62%

Be careful today if you are short. Obviously you have to be more careful when eating todays loss if you’re long, however, I’m short. The key is where the indexes will carve out a bottom today.

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Posted by StockRake on February 26, 2007 in Stock Comments

Market Is Down

The market is down and thats good for me. I went short Friday with everything I had. Q puts are up 21% at the lows of the day, QID is up 1% at the lows, and the Rydex trade will yield 1% if we close down here too. I may hold another day if we …

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