Bought calls in YGE and TSO today. The May YGE 30 and 25 strikes saw unusual volume (the puts did as well, but not nearly as much action), I decided to go risky and go with the May 30s. For TSO I went with the June 25 calls there. YGE reports tomorrow. I haven’t had [...]

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Worked:
Being long the NDX and RUT for a 6% gain.
DRYS option calls good for 47% overnight.
CPST, JOYG, DAR, KOL all moved higher. These 4 are either at or above 52 week highs.
GILD had great earnings, but no AH action yet.
Sucked:
Not being heavily long in the indexes. To be fair it was very unclear to me [...]

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Sold:
Sold remaining index longs for a loss of about 3%. I chickened out this morning, but things are looking up right now. This includes QLD and UWM positions as well as my 2x mutual fund positions that I trimmed down on Friday. At this point in the day all markets are green and I wish [...]

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Worked:
Being short the RUT until the close. Banked 4% on that trade which was very nice. I swapped it to the long side today at the close though, heavily.
The NDX morning cashout was good for 1.5%ish gain.
DRYS - Took 2% gain while it was there early, before it dropped
Sucked:
All the different trades, JOYG, CPST, DAR, [...]

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Bought:
YGE @ 20.80 had about 3% then it turned into a 2% loss as the market slid. I should’ve taken the trade when I had the gains. The whole solar sector was moving as OIL hit new highs, but solar backed off.
Sold:
YGE @ 20.38 for 2% loss
DRYS @ 71.21 for a 2.4% gain
NDX short @ [...]

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Last week was a great trading week. Almost everything was profitable.
My index trading which basically consisted of being long, and trimming a little then throwing it back to the long side on a down day was good for around 12%. Maybe more, pain in the butt to calculate at this hour.
Worked:
CPST, YGE, LDK, POWI, DRYS [...]

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Market has rebounded from its morning malaise. I took alot of my index longs to cash this morning to preserve the greater than 10% gains in them, however, right now I’m missing out on some really nice upside in the RUT and NDX. I still have some longs in the indexes though so its not [...]

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Machinery stocks: BUCY, JOYG, ASTE are showing up on my screens. Of the 3 BUCY is the best and JOYG is second favorite. I bought JOYG today.
Wind Power/Utility: FPL
Biotech: BIIB, GILD - I own GILD.
Copper: PCU, FCX
Solars: LDK, YGE - I owned them both recently and sold them yesterday.
Oil Services: NE, SLB, RIG
Financials: TROW, AMP
Alternative [...]

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Yesterdays post is dated incorrectly.
Worked:
YGE - I sold out of YGE today completely for a 21% gain.
CPST - I sold half my CPST this morning @ 2.4 and the other half 2.44 for total gain of 20.7%.
INTC - I really have no patience for this stock. Its still good, but I dropped it today for [...]

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Worked:
YGE - Caught it on the breakout and it ran all day. I sold more than half of my position today to lock in the gains @ 20.33 or 11%. The other half that I still hold is up about 10%.
CPST - Inched higher. Up 18% on the trade so far. Chart looks amazing.
POWI - [...]

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More like a late day update. Did a couple of trades today.
Bought:
YGE @ 18.04, 18.50 up about 6% from the buy point.
LDK @ 28.56 up 3.5% from the buy point.
DAR @ 12.58
The CAT sell yesterday was a good call. Its down 2% today. I want to wait at least one more day to buy it [...]

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Bought:
GILD @ 50.53
POWI @ 30.32. POWI is  Power Integrations Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary, high-voltage, analog integrated circuits (IC) for use primarily in alternating current (AC)-direct current (DC) and DC-DC power conversion in the consumer, communications, computer, and industrial electronics markets in North America and internationally.
Sold:
CREE - @ 29.15 for 1.8% gain on [...]

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Worked:
3 stocks that begin with the letter A
Bought AMZN @ 63.27 up 3.2% now. Big volume started coming around midday. I jumped in immediately. I had 5%+ in my pocket, but left the trade on and went to lunch when I came back AMZN was around the 4% mark and just hovered. I kept it [...]

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Worked:
Nothing.
Sucked:
Everything. I feel like its still late to short, but I’m getting convinced its not - a sign of a turn probably. However, I’m just going to have to wait till an actual rally gets started to play the long side from here and then I’ll be looking to short. We’ve had some close calls [...]

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Worked:
I didn’t get a chance to do a Midday Update today because of family matters.
I also didn’t cash out of my index longs this morning and it worked out for the better. The NDX gained about .66% and a 2% gain for RUT just padded my trade. It looks like we have more coming too. [...]

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