Stocks, charts, risk management & coffee

Early in the morning I closed a little of my XLI short and also a little of my VXX long. I also trimmed down my junk long positions in SWHC and S. I sold off my junk long position in ODP. The ODP chart is indicating that it is going into bankruptcy. Today’s breakdown was [...]

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§91 · February 24, 2009 · Auto Parts Sector, ODP, Precious Metals, SLV, SWHC, VXX, XLI · View Comments ·


Just a short journal post tonight. I will have new ideas over the weekend and the Sunday Night Coffee post sometime on Sunday.
There seemed to be some thought today that Uncle Sam might nationalize C or BAC tonight or over the weekend. Obama then came out and deflated the rumors. We will see.
Today was a [...]

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§87 · February 20, 2009 · AVAV, AZO, Auto Parts Sector, FITB, HMSY, IBB, IHI, PEGA, SPY, UYG, qqqq · View Comments ·


I’m going to do tonight post in reverse order. I’ll revisit the indexes at the end of my post. There is actually more exciting things to blog about tonight than just a rehash of the indexes. This has been a really exciting week.
The first item of interest today was that I noticed a “tale [...]

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§86 · February 19, 2009 · Auto Parts Sector, BAC, BCS, C, ESI, Education Stocks, Financials, PEGA, SPY, lyg · View Comments ·