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A MILQUETOAST MUTUAL FUND MONDAY

I’m approaching the month of October cautiously. I think sentiment has shifted a bit in the last two weeks and I’m looking for any excuses to lighten up here.

Back in August, there were many looking for a breakout to bet against stocks. That voice has gotten quiet. It seems like the crowd has accepted that the market trades higher from here. Many are referencing how great the last few Octobers have been, which makes me even more nervous.

This would also be an optimal time for something to happen to stir up noise ahead of the election.

I ran a poll awhile back and to my astonishment I found that a big chunk of the vote were people in a high cash position. Ideally, we get a good market move this week to get that crowd to deploy some capital before the market gets volatile.

This week, I’m enamored with Chinese Burritos and Biotech. IPO’s look great as well.

Other than that, I’m not trying to increase exposure here, fwiw.

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50 comments

  1. dragun

    went long China ETF this am. Seems were drinking from the same tea cup.

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  2. baba

    OA
    Do you like $TDC here?

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    • Option Addict

      Nope. Do I dare ask why that stock?

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      • baba

        I was scanning for bearish setups, and found this.
        The earnings in november is what I am aiming for.

        Thought today’s downgrade might be the bottom.

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        • Option Addict

          Found this stock in a list of bearish set-ups and want to buy? Something about that makes no sense.

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          • baba

            The earnings is my trigger for this trade.

            If you were to buy this, is there a point you would be interested in? or you would pass it

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          • Option Addict

            If our styles already don’t align here, I don’t think they will. I bought calls on this back on 8/1 for earnings. That was the move.

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  3. mk

    I like JD but dont want to sell anything to buy it at the moment

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  4. matt_bear

    weibos out for harambe.

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  5. Dope Feller

    Bought into WYNN 102 yolo calls this morning. Hope I do not get Harambe’d

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  6. Beechoo

    OA- think we see new highs again before the year is over?

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  7. whittleone

    IPO’S look great, including $TTD?

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  8. whittleone

    No, still holding from 29

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  9. whittleone

    Nope

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    • Option Addict

      Nice! Fuck risk, lol.

      Just hold it til it hurts too much?

      Remember the discussion of the chart? We talked about support levels and such?

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  10. whittleone

    Yes I remember. But sometimes I enjoy too much pain and than it’s too late. See ya in AO.

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  11. Dnice

    worth fading NFLX rumors for some short $

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  12. purdy

    “stir up noise ahead of the election”
    The establishment candidate has been the beneficiary of the noise recently. Yet the market seems rather calm ahead of tomorrow’s Wikileaks “bombshell”. If her candidacy were to get hurt, pharma and biotech should be among the sectors that suffer. I’m short some pharmas …interesting that I am not making any money in them today.

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    • Option Addict

      $IBB ripped into the close. Hillary probably hits JA with a drone before then.

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      • Frog

        LOL, probably not necessary. Who wants to bet that the big surprise is just a ton more emails that “look suspicious” to conspiracy theorists, but that prove nothing damaging.

        For anyone long the market, I guess you already are betting with your trades that that’s the case.

        And if you are short, you are betting that the new emails will be a big deal.

        We’ll see tomorrow.

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        • frog

          Well, the market is mixed and mostly down, despite the fact that Assange has disappointed conspiracy theorists the world over. They were all planning to take hundreds of pages of documents to bed with them each night, to pour over them looking for something suspicious sounding. What are they going to do now? How will they get to sleep at night?

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  13. greenlander1

    Picked up some GILD at close and some WFC Nov 47 calls

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  14. MSGT HARTMAN

    GAFT wins again.

    Nothing negative to report on the economy, the market is setting the table for Santa.

    Higher highs into next year

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  15. vandamme

    NTNX anyone? Also ACIA at 95 looks juicy

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  16. sethster99

    This market i going to break out hard on Friday. I’m lightening up before then. Could get my face ripped off.

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  17. rochester

    Bot.. RH.. Nice profile on 5 year.

    Keep an eye on ASGN.. Could move higher quickly.

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  18. vandamme

    Vips anyone?

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  19. Badduck

    Bot $VRX weekly calls, 25 strike.

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  20. ThomasJefferson

    Grabbed some Nov $UA. Never traded this one before, which seems hard to believe.

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  21. Beechoo

    Adios twlo 🙁

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    • jewishmantis

      Looks like another consolidation on decreasing volume. If the options werent so insanely expensive Id pull the trigger here and thank the stock gods for the present

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  22. jewishmantis

    ZYNE is a extended but a (weed) bio that we spoke about a while ago in AH looks good

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    • ThomasJefferson

      Weed is working. I’m in $MJNA, $CVSI, and $TRTC.

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      • jewishmantis

        Its been. Im left smoking it and not making money. GWHC (?) has been flying too. Good pics though

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        • ThomasJefferson

          I don’t know if you were in AHWOA when these started getting passed around? I’ve never traded this kind of crap, but it’s kind of fun. Silly to look at $MJNA and say, “well, it’s up 100% but it’s got work to do.” But obviously these are sized VERY small. The three combined are about 70% of a normal stock position for me.

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          • jewishmantis

            As a personal rule I dont trade penny stocks. Though as Jeff said its basically the same thing as an option position.

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          • Option Addict

            Weed stocks are the exception. But yes, trade them like a call option premium.

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