Posts Tagged ‘uup’


Posted by StockRake on May 4, 2010 in Agriculture Stocks, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options, Technical Analysis, Trades

Huge Down Day = Nice Move For Me…To Poop On

The best thing I ever did in the last 3 days was not panic out of my short thesis. I kept the 2x NDX/RUT shorts from yesterday (heavy 100%) collecting 6% in each index. Haven’t seen a move like this in quite awhile. I was also long EWZ puts, long POT puts, long EPV, long …

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Posted by StockRake on February 16, 2010 in Brazil Stocks, Chart Fest, China Stocks, ETFs, Foreign Currency, Technical Analysis

Charts of Currency ETFs and BRICs ETF

For this week (and possibly beyond) I have a technical macro bearish bias, but this upcoming Friday is pivotal and could change things. Today was a major shift, but Monday’s don’t count. Things can look great on Monday and then by Friday you’re totally engulfed in red candles. The following charts below include my bearish …

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Posted by StockRake on October 12, 2009 in Financials, Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, Options, Stock Market Charts, Technical Analysis, Trades

Shorted The Indexes This Morning

I shorted the indexes with a full position this morning while the indexes were up in the range of .50%. The RUT finished down -.18%. The gain turned out to be around 1.2% avg between the 3 I trade. What I owned going into today: EWZ Nov 71 puts, UNH Nov 27 calls (sold for …

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Posted by StockRake on October 1, 2008 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds, restaurant stocks, Trades

Rolled Out of My Long, Into BWLD & Double Dollar

I took my index long off this morning. Its going to be another loss, but this position was even smaller than the last, so not much damage at all. Bought a fresh piece of BWLD @ 40.94. I rolled my index long over to the double dollar fund: RYSBX This is the Rydex version of …

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Posted by StockRake on September 30, 2008 in Leveraged ETFs, Leveraged Funds

Double Beta Leveraged Long ETFs & ETNs

There are many options to for leveraging up a long trade and one of the new popular ways is to use leveraged ETFs and Mutual Funds. If you have followed this blog for more than a few months you will know that this is majority of what my trades are involved with. ProFunds Indexes DDM …

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