Posts Tagged ‘spy’


Posted by StockRake on August 11, 2011 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

I Was Wrong, So What?

I cashed out of everything this morning early, as per plan yesterday, however I have to wait till 10:45 for Rydex to clear – that was more of a loss than necessary. It looks like the market wants to wedge it up here to test the undersides of the 21 dema’s. I’m cool with that. …

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Posted by StockRake on June 6, 2011 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options

I’m Going To Try and Time This Perfectly

I said this on Friday, “I have some decent buy signal on the COMPX here, but I think there will be carry over into next week. I’ll look to go long on Monday. The reasons I didn’t act today (and they might not be right) on the long side were related to fear. The whole …

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Posted by StockRake on December 13, 2010 in Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

I Didn’t Like The Trading Action Today

Currently or as of Friday, and it was mentioned over the weekend, that I have some overbought signals that are keeping me from being long the indexes. I had enough to attempt a short trade there, but I didn’t want to bother. The greater reward is to the long side I think after a pullback. …

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Posted by StockRake on July 7, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Technical Analysis, Trades

Long Again The $RUT

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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Posted by StockRake on July 2, 2010 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options, Trades

No Bounce Yet

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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