Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Trades: TRLG, BBY, BWLD, JASO

Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 3:31 pm

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New shorts:  BWLD (32.21), BBY (32.18), TRLG (21.66)

New longs:  JASO (4.40)

Notes:

- VIX +6.5%

-  On my screens it looks like home-health-care stocks are bleeding.  I will not buy the dip just yet.  AFAM taking a beating today.  How did I miss fading that sector?

-  I’m shorting retail for a swing period, however long that is.  I will probably scaling out of my solar shorts, that’s why I decided to buy some JASO longs as a light hedge.

-  VIX < 28 had me scaling out of longs and building a short position on the market’s staggering complacency.  It’s interesting how the market has worked.  All the selling and profit-taking comes either on economic data rich days, or on a day like this:  start of 2nd half, plus shortened weekend.  This is definitely a trader-controlled tape.

vix-double-spike… VIX spiked down below my 28.xx point to short market aggressive.  Haven’t had a spike like that in a long time.  I’m expecting increased volatility on the VIX for July and August.

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15 Responses to “Trades: TRLG, BBY, BWLD, JASO”
  1. Gio says:

    TPX taking a huge beating. I had this on high priority short too.. >_< … I may have to play a daytrade short on this next week.

  2. Gio says:

    … oh yeah, keep an eye on TPX patent case.

    Time for breakfast!

  3. ZMoose12 says:

    I’m in with you in JASO… Saw the same technical patterns you did I presume!

  4. Gio says:

    I’m skerd of solars bouncing on Monday, so I bought me a bag of JASO chips.

  5. zstock says:

    Waiting for Gravatar–using old wordpress account to activate–I wonder how long that takes?

  6. zstock says:

    Well, obviously ( gravatar) it’s more than a few minutes–they lied! Check it tomorrow

  7. zstock says:

    I had july VIX 20 calls Wed into thurs, +15% instant overnight winner–
    You think I got out too soon? Last 25 trades have been winners-except for a handful-Ok well –GPI was a break even, as were a lot of those 25 trades–but hey, sometimes break even is a win.
    I have PCP and MON longs, right now–and I’m not too keen on those two positions–too late now!
    Just have to get lucky, is all.

  8. positiontrader says:

    The divergence in MACD mean anything??

  9. punksgt says:

    Gio,

    Been short BBY, BWLD for a while now, and bought to cover TRLG some time in March. I have taken some pain as I waited for these stocks to sink. (BBY,BWLD)

    Your post reminded to get back into to TRLG as this stock has melted up…

    What interests you in these stocks now?

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