• Current Long Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): TICC (9.62), GLD (130.99), SSO (42.57), SNDK (36.59), AMZN (161.08), BAC (11.34), JACK (23.16), GHL (75.95) Current Short Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): None BIAS: 62% Long Economic Reports Due Out (Times are EST): MBA Purchase Applications (7am), Challenger Job-Cut Report (7:30am), ADP Employment Report (8:15am), Factory Orders

    |November 3, 2010|2 min read|
  • Current Long Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): TICC (9.62), GLD (130.99), SSO (41.84), SNDK (36.59), AMZN (161.08), BAC (11.34) Current Short Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): None BIAS: 52% Long Economic Reports Due Out (Times are EST): FOMC Meeting Begins, ICSC Goldman Store Sales (7:45am), Redbook (8:55am) My Observations and What to Expect: Futures are

    |November 2, 2010|2 min read|
  • Current Long Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): TICC (9.62), GLD (130.99), SSO (41.84), DIS (35.75), GS (160.35), SNDK (36.59), AMZN (161.08) Current Short Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): None BIAS: 42% Long Economic Reports Due Out (Times are EST): Personal Income and Outlays (8:30am), ISM Manufacturing Index (10am), Construction Spending (10am) My Observations and

    |November 1, 2010|2 min read|
  • Futures are continuing to improve heading into the open. Amazon.com (AMZN) has bounced incredibly well as it could now potentially open with a profit in hand.  LONG: SPDR Gold Trust (GLD)  

    |October 22, 2010|0 min read|
  • Current Long Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): TICC (9.62), DTV (42.34), EOG (97.52), ESRX (46.42), AAPL (305.59), SHLD (72.95) Current Short Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): SDS  (28.55) BIAS: 56% Long Economic Reports Due Out (Times are EST): No reports scheduled. My Observations and What to Expect: Futures are trading flat.  Asian markets were mixed and European markets

    |October 22, 2010|2 min read|
  • The market, for the first time this month has seen a fair amount of selling as it fell back below the 1130 breakout level on the S&P. The question on the minds of the bulls is whether this is something to be concerned about or to use as an opportunity for buying stocks on the

    |September 23, 2010|2 min read|
  • Current Long Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): What are those? 🙂 Current Short Positions (stop-losses in parentheses): ESV (42.84), WTFC (37.15), SLAB (44.80), ALB (43.59), HIBB (26.65),  WRC (40.95), QQQQ (45.83), NSIT (14.79), AA (11.43), DLLR (19.84), HSIC (55.46) BIAS: 90% Short Economic Reports Due Out (Times are EST): Absolutely Nothing! My Observations and What to

    |July 23, 2010|1 min read|
  • Recently I have tried to provide readers on the weekend with the most interesting article from the past week. The article below comes from MarketFolly.com. It details the most popular stocks among hedge fund's top-ten holdings. Perhaps you may be able to find a trading idea or two as a result. Given our focus on

    |March 13, 2010|3 min read|
  • The great attempt at a new bear market has finally ceased – done – over with. My attempts to short this market were deemed futile – and in the end had nothing to show but a sea of shorts that mounted to really nothing but red in brokerage statements. The action that the market portrayed early

    |March 5, 2010|1 min read|
  • This bull market has not been kind to me this past week, and that’s okay. I’m trading my system that I know works, has worked in the past, and have no reason to think it won’t continue to work in the future. I added another short position today, after getting stopped out of SDS. The new

    |March 2, 2010|1 min read|