Charts and Coffee on February 24th, 2009 at 11:20 am Central Time

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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Charts and Coffee on February 20th, 2009 at 5:23 pm Central Time

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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Charts and Coffee on February 19th, 2009 at 5:52 pm Central Time

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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Charts and Coffee on February 7th, 2009 at 10:56 am Central Time

I recently discussed playing AZO to the short side. As I mentioned in my last post, my AZO short was stopped out with a loss at $144 on Friday. If I ever created a list of trading rules, one rule would be not to get mad at loser trades but to look at them for [...]

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