Dec

11

Taking profits and getting short

December 11, 2007 | 1 Comment

This afternoon I decided to put on my selling shoes and exit a number of my long positions. In addition, I got short in a hurry as we broke through the 1490 level on the S&P. In the past few days, I have continually noted that while the market was rising and things were looking decent, we had yet to see volume return to the market on the up days. That negative divergence was the key piece […]

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Dec

6

Major changes to the portfolio

December 6, 2007 | 2 Comments

I made some major changes to the portfolio today, so I’m just going to go down the list.

Sold:

CGLD.OB–I sold my entire position over the last two days at an average price of 72 cents. I had been bullish on the stock up to now, but the company’s December 3rd filing with the SEC for a sale of 58 million shares (mostly from insiders and large holders) came as a big surprise. I can sit there and justify the […]

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