Personal Best
Today I had a pretty good day, in fact, my personal best so far.
Lots of trades, I even got bored with Twittering everything so I’m taking that page down unless someone expresses an interest in it.
I’ve put up a new page “Market Pulse”, where I’m going to collect various indicators, that I come across.
- Sold [[SDS]] in the morning, covered [[PLCE]], [[PSUN]], 1/3 [[JCP]], 1/2 [[LVS]].
- Went long [[MOS]] and then chickened out – unfortunately. It’s up huge now.
- Traded [[SKF]] on the short side 9 (!) times, all wins.
- For the weekend, I have 3 short positions, but also have half my [[QLD]], and started a long [[X]] trade.
This is just a re-cap. So many trades today, must analyze (later).
Huge reversal in coal today…
Hi Eric,
will check it out, thanks.
All commodities should be up huge on Monday, so oversold. Trying to figure out where I’ll get the most bang for my buck.
Are currencies traded on weekends?
FX closes friday night doesn’t trade till midday sunday.
I bet you can open a forex account with a credit card…
Seems a little optimistic.
Look at First recovery, as opposed to early cycle. Transports, coal… materials.
but if I could convince you out of the “hyper-inflation” perma bear trade….There just aren’t enough new Dollar Bears.
And the Treasury says “back stop” not bailout. They have been all over the world trying to figure out how to keep the international investors in the fanny freddy game… and that is what they will do.
Materials isn’t a “currency trade” it’s going to be more an international growth trade.
I’m not sure how much I’d chase… we could still see some nervous nellies and boogymen next week…. and some of the big players coming in trying to “crush” the market.
You know how I am, “Don’t chase”…… and just look for your opportunities.
Agriculture, Industrials….. You know how long it has been since someone talked about industrials.
My broker allows forex, options and stocks. I can have all that under one account, which I’ve wanted to do anyway. Any money I make is the U.S. currency and who knows what’ll happen to that.
Any commodity positions I take will be for a trade only. I think they’re still in a downtrend overall, and have short targets in place. So I’m going long X now, then it reaches my target and I short. Same with MOS, that’s why I chickened out – didn’t think I caught the correction right.
As for hyperinflation, I’m now having my doubts – haven’t decided if we’re going to have hyperinflation or deflation. Don’t think anyone can say with certainty.
People are bi-polar on the FRE/FNM issue. It’ll be curious to see the reaction on Monday. This is like watching a soap opera. I’ll just ‘let the market tell me what to do’.
Yes….. Let the market talk.
I always try and ask…. how are the lemmings going to be wrong. Treasury isn’t saying “Bail out” It’s “Backstop”. Things will be somewhere between what the “Bears are saying” and the “bulls”
I bet we open high, and they try and sell it.
The Model for a Thursday sell off, into a Monday tuesday capitulation, is a Neutral Friday…..
that was anything but neutral.
And Pimco saying “Debt Tsunami”, which Bill gross was back peddling on his saying it, on friday…..
And Get this, Bill Gross has been involved in the FNM FRE bail out talks.
Last year Gross was considered “the smartest guy on WS” because we know that the bond people are the smartest. He’s fallen pretty low from that throne.
Higher open, lower close sounds probable for Monday.
Overall, I think we’re headed down after this spike: too many important supports broken, with no immediate happy catalyst in sight. Are the corporate earnings growing? Not unless you’re supplying munitions.
Wonder if AAPL conference will have any effect on the techs.
Bill Gross was inaugurated again by Freddy and Fannie with pretty nice bonus of 1.7 billion US dollar…
Well, then, he is the smartest guy, isn’t he?
Pathetic and unpleasant, but who cares when you have that kind of dough (I know you didn’t mean that he literally got $1.4b, but he’s not in dire straights himself, I’m pretty sure).
I mean that the money was literally captured by Pimco through one little day.