Like counting sheep-here are the thoughts in my head each night:
After an initial scare, most major bull markets in U.S. equities also occurred during periods of rising interest rates, which of course hasn’t really happened yet, (market seems to …
Instructions today:
IYR: High today 71.74 a target which you may or may not have been able to sell the 1/2 of remaining balance at-if so, great, if not, sell 1/2 IYR balance on a 70.59 stop
***NOTE: Will calculate …
Instructions today:
IYR: High today 71.74 a target which you may or may not have been able to sell the 1/2 of remaining balance at-if so, great, if not, sell 1/2 IYR balance on a 70.59 stop
***NOTE: Will calculate …
Longs:
MPW
YUM
WFC
PLD
XRX
CNX
TXT
WMT
MBI
A
AFL
ANF
GOOG
AMPE
KOG
GILD
BA
IBM
AA
IPG
ALXN
BIDU
LNC
OI
CBST
COST
PXD
Shorts:
PETM
KMB
SCTY
MR…
“Markets are not stable at all-time closing highs. Assumption-something big is coming. No sell in May, go away kind of event either.” From this weekend.
“Rising interest rates means the cost of money and credit is going up, and if …
CORN: Out of the balance 33.87
Raise Sell Stop to breakeven in TBTs : 63.04
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Existing Position: TBTs: Long 63.04 ATR 1.07
Name of Instrument: Ultrashort Lehman 20+ Yr Treasuries
Breakeven Stop: 63.04
Current Price: 64.55
Reason For Trade: …
CORN: Out of the balance 33.87
Raise Sell Stop to breakeven in TBTs : 63.04
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Existing Position: TBTs: Long 63.04 ATR 1.07
Name of Instrument: Ultrashort Lehman 20+ Yr Treasuries
Breakeven Stop: 63.04
Current Price: 64.55
Reason For Trade: …
This Week’s Strategy Lesson: Designing a Strategy (Part 3)
We are now a few weeks into a series of articles on the process of designing robust strategies that can beat the market. In the first article we discussed starting with …
This week we made one position change in the ETF Country model. On Friday morning we sold out of IFN on the open and entered into an equal sized position in EWP (Spain). Our current three positions are EGPT, TMF, …
This week there were no position changes in the Sector Plus model. Our current three positions are SOXL, ERX, and DRN. To open next week, we will remain in those three ETFs.
The SPY closed the week down a less …