Friday, July 27, 2007

Grin and Bear it...


You may have felt like you were listening to an alien when I was writing about flight to safety and asset allocation… I’ll admit that even as I was doing it I was feeling a little cowardly. But now I am pleased with my choice. With the Dow giving back all of its recent gains this week most of us are a bit shocked.
Right now my only active trade is a position I took on Wednesday. Here it is. I went long a few shares of the Proshares Ultra short ETF for the Dow. Symbol DXD. This is an ETF that seeks 2 times the negative performance of the DJIA. In 2 days I am looking at a modest gain of about 7% Not bad.
That’s it for now… Lets see where next week takes us.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Flight to Safety

It is official. I have no trades going. All my money is safely earning 5% or well allocated in a diversified mix that even Harry Markowitz would be proud of. I'm still looking for good trades so please everyone chime in here and give me some ideas.