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THE BIG PICTURE
I’ve looked at 200-300 charts this morning and the charts generally look bullish to me. I’ve been following QQQQ to give me market direction, and we set a new intraday high over the May high and the intraday action also breached into the October gap (although it has yet to fill it). There [...]

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§271 · May 31, 2009 · ARO, C, CY, DBB, DLTR, FCX, KOL, REV, SEA, SMH, Sunday Night Coffee, UNG, UUP, XLE, qqqq · View Comments ·


Paul Tudor Jones II – “I see the younger generation hampered by the need to understand and rationalize why something should go up or down. Usually, by the time that becomes self-evident, the move is already over. When I got into the business, there was so little information on fundamentals, and what little information one [...]

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§270 · May 31, 2009 · Uncategorized · View Comments ·


Added THI long on the symmetrical triangle breakout.
Stopped out of DLTR and TBT. Trimmed positions back to original size throughout the day.
ELN up over 20% in after hours trading. Trimmed it back to is original position size.
A week of churn for me but another great month.

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§269 · May 29, 2009 · Uncategorized · View Comments ·


Stopped out of ESI at 95. Added QSII at 49.50.

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§268 · May 29, 2009 · Uncategorized · View Comments ·


Dollar is getting crushed again this morning.
- GOLD up another 4% in the premarket. Trimmed it back some more.- Covered a little more of my QQQQ hedge at $35.13.- Trimmed a little DXO (up over 4% in the pre-market).- Trimmed MTL back to its original position size.
For those that got in on UNG, up 3% [...]

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§267 · May 29, 2009 · Uncategorized · View Comments ·


It looks like a little double bottom might be forming on the QQQQs. Can it punch through $35.5-$36?

AAPL, as the largest component of QQQQ, looks very similar to QQQQ, except it has already broken out over resistance at $132. While I am not getting long QQQQ and AAPL right here (in fact, I still have [...]

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§266 · May 28, 2009 · AAPL, REV, qqqq · View Comments ·


Stopped out out of HMSY. Added to DLTR long. Trimmed GOLD.

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§265 · May 28, 2009 · Uncategorized · View Comments ·


I will start by saying today was a great day. After the rough day yesterday, I got almost all of it back today. Even better, I think I added some good inventory today. I will get to the daily analysis in a minute.
One thing some of my readers have learned but many do not know [...]

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§264 · May 27, 2009 · TBT, TLT, UNG · View Comments ·


Having a decent day today.
- Shorted DRI at $36.40- Covered a small amount of my QQQQ short.- Added a small amount of DLTR long at $46.- Giving UNG another go at $13.70. I’m using the low at $12.70 as my stop out.- Trimmed junk longs CVI and CIT.- DBB is right near my stop and [...]

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§263 · May 27, 2009 · Uncategorized · View Comments ·


AAPL above 132 if it holds increases chances of breakout on QQQQ. Covered a small amount of my QQQQ hedge.

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§262 · May 27, 2009 · Uncategorized · View Comments ·