Feb

6

Cutting exposure to the inflation trade and switching to value

February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment

Today I spent the bulk of the trading day cutting my exposure to the inflation trade that I’d put on. My baseline reasoning is that oil has been the key driver behind inflation, but today’s oil inventory report was very bearish for the market and resulted in some technical damage as oil dropped below the $87 support level intraday. Although oil barely managed to climb back above $87, I believe that the technical damage has been done, and […]

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Nov

28

Jumping in on the long side

November 28, 2007 | 3 Comments

Today I decided to jump in on the long side in a number of names. I’m just going to cut to the chase and go down my list of buys.

AVAV at 23.42 because the company continues to get military orders and is ramping up its green energy segments

CEUA at 4.71 because upcoming investor conference might finally put this on the radar

CAGC at 2.88 because China needs non-chemical fertilizer and the stock is dirt cheap

CNEH at 2.20 because it is […]

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