Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Best day of 2009 for me... I have now tripled my account this year with no options

When I start feeling this good about myself it is time to pull in the horns a bit and sell some stuff.
My only loser in the long list of positions to the right was TBT which I added to in the 43's on the dip.... (and AA was down 4% as well)

My whole account was up 8% today and I am in no options positions (only long stocks) and the market was only up 2.0%.

I had 7 of my positions up over 10% today. A few of them were up over 20%.

A WONDERFUL day but as someone who has been doing this for a while knows you have to be careful in situations like this.

4 comments:

  1. All I have to say is -- wow! the whole day. wow.

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  2. I was suprised DXO was my third biggest laggard. You would have thought that guy would have been up 20% today with all the other stuff, right??

    The dow was only up 90 points but the inflation plays were REALLY working except oil.. Strange.

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  3. What I will say is that you have been spot on your calls this year -- which has been like every year, but this year on time and no options.

    My word of caution is -- when I play poker, and I start to play hands because everything seems like a winner -- thats when I start to lose.

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  4. You are probably right. I need to get some of this long exposure off and get some hedges in.

    I do think the government is not going to be able to hold down rates forever but you might be right that it is a bad short term trade....

    That being said, look what happened with the Bank of England when they tried this a few days ago.

    http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/878-Caution-On-Quantitative-Easing-QE.html

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