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Trade & Fade The Extremes

While we started off November on the right foot, the post-election meltdown allowed the bears to win this week's battle.

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For the week, the S&P 500 lost -3.92%, Dow -4.09%, Nasdaq -4.27%, and the Russell 2000 -5.90%. There were some giant swings this week and to make money you had to trade and fade the extremes.

<>As we've seen in prior weeks, the "ultra" shorts were the top leaders. All of the following gained more than +10% on the week - ProShares UltraShort Smallcap 600 ETF (SDD), ProShares UltraShort Semiconductors ETF (SSG), ProShares UltraShort Russell 2000 Value ETF (SJH), <>ProShares...
By  charleskirk   (+0.00%)  11/07/08 Comment


A cold Christmas for on-line retailers?
The Tech Trader Daily site had a post today that nicely laid out the slide in e-commerce sales growth this year on a month-by-month basis. The data comes from Comscore and looks like this:
  • April: +15%
  • May +12%
  • June: +11%
  • July +8%
  • August: +6%
  • September: +5%
Clearly, it's not a pretty picture; especially for an industry that is used to growing at double digits.

What about the all-important Christmas shopping season? Will e-tailers be able to show enough growth to overcome the weakness in the months leading up to the holidays?

Don't count on it.

As the evidence increases that consume...
By  TradeRadarOperator   (-46.60%  risk: moderate)  10/31/08 Comment


From worried bear to cautious bull?
Credit markets are showing glimmers of improvement. Note the following quotes from MarketWatch.com:
<>The cost of short-term dollar loans dropped more than expected Monday, a signal that money markets are slowly returning to normal after threatening to derail the global financial system earlier this month, economists said.

The London interbank offered rate, or Libor, for three-month dollar loans fell to 4.05875%, down sharply from 4.41875% on Friday. The one-month rate fell to 3.75125% from 4.18125% on Friday.

Later Monday, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in testimony prepared for de...
By  TradeRadarOperator   (-46.60%  risk: moderate)  10/21/08 Comment


Lightening up on my ultra shorts
The market certainly swung through a wide range on Friday. The first half hour showed more variation than is often seen over the course of an entire day.

The S&P 500 opened with a big gap and fell 7%. Forty minutes later it had closed the gap and moved into the green. The market then proceeded to sink in a fairly steady and orderly way down to nearly its earlier lows until 3:00 when the index turned up and began to rally like crazy. By 3:36, it had erased its loss and was up 2.5%. The index then turned down and closed with a 1.18% loss.

I relate this intra-day behavior to illustrate why I got...
By  TradeRadarOperator   (-46.60%  risk: moderate)  10/12/08 Comment


New short selling rules: More attention to Short ETF.
Vld2czech
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SEC has applied new rules to short selling. Naked short selling has been stopped on Thursday. Now sellers have to borrow company shares before selling them on the market and later on buying them for lower price in order to close position.

This SEC prohibition could attract more attention to Short/Inverse Exchange Traded Funds. Funds provide possibility to profit from declining market even without borrowing of the shares and setting up margin accounts. Another advantage is that in case of short selling trader can lose unlimited amount without proper stop loss. Contrary with Short ETF your inv...
By  Vlada Kynsky   (-27.07%  risk: aggressive)  09/19/08 Comment



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Newsmonkey
newsmonkey   (-19.68%  risk: conservative)
Dollar, Debt, Bailouts, Unemployment, And The Rest... - These days it is hard for anyone to be credible when they say they know what is going to happen next. I am no different. I have a view and for now it...
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EDWIN DIAZ   (-23.51%  risk: aggressive)
another good stock - we went long today with selected Ultra Short ETF's. Aggressive Investors and Traders should play the market to the downside
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