Posts Tagged ‘What Worked Today’


Posted by StockRake on December 3, 2007 in Options, What Worked Today

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ATVI – Nice move today that rocked the options into profitville. I’m still waiting to hear if the options will be repriced with a better close, because I definitely got the shaft. However, the selling of the calls in the morning was a great move regardless because 85% gain in a dead position is better …

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Posted by StockRake on December 1, 2007 in What Worked Today

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SPLS – Sold the options for 50% gain– less commish around 39-40%. The same options have jumped about 600% off the bottom though in 4-5 days. UA – Under Armour is finding home at these levels. I have it on a buy. Up 3% today, down over 20% though in the trade. RUT – The …

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Posted by StockRake on November 29, 2007 in What Worked Today

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Being long the RUT. That sucked. The RUT ended down about 1% for the 2x leveraged funds, while the other indexes closed higher on the day. Taking my NDX portion to cash yesterday. That sucked too. The gain in the NDX would have offset the RUT loss a little bit. What worked… ICTL – It …

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Posted by StockRake on November 29, 2007 in What Worked Today

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Holy Smoketh! The market raged on as the short’s anooses burned. Being long. I got 7.2% in the RUT and 6.06% in the NDX from yesterdays closing price. When I split my position, I actually slightly lost out on the opportunity to make more by being solely in the RUT. I’m not complaining though. It …

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Posted by StockRake on November 27, 2007 in What Worked Today

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Being long. Yesterday was a disaster in the market, and I was long. I couldn’t post because I’m on vacation and don’t have ready access to internet access. I saw what happened today. It looks like the bottoming process has definitely started. We should get a second up day tomorrow. We haven’t seen two in …

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