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- Ultrashort Emerging Markets Should Come with a Warning Label
- Trader Mark submits: Ultrashort Emerging Markets EEV should have a warning label on it; we were "fortunate" to have a 0.1% stake in it Wednesday but going back toWednesday 's discussion about how asset allocation is everything - just having this hedge on Wednesday alone can cost you nearly...
- External links 2008-10-30
- Rolling the Dice at the Real Estate Casino
- Trader Mark submits: Well our "investment" decision to get into Ultra Real Estate URE [Nov 21: The Best Casino Ever - Restarting Ultra Real Estate] is paying off as the ETF is up 40% and we've owned it for just over 2.5 hours. I am going to take a...
- External links 2008-11-24
- Anecdotal Musing: Commercial Real Estate, You Can't Go Wrong
- Trader Mark submits: This is the second time in three weeks both Ultra Real Estate URE and Ultrashort Real Estate SRS are positive at the same time, which in theory should be impossible since once is 2x the basket of REITs and one is 2x the inverse the basket; it...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Ultrashort Real Estate Drop Demonstrates Unlimited Faith in a Recovery
- Trader Mark submits: Simply amazing moves on thesis. Ultrashort Real Estate SRS is now at the low for the year which means the inverse index effectively all sorts of REITs are at the high. The faith in federal government saving all our commercial real estate is apparently unlimited. Quite...
- External links 2008-12-17
- Dizzying Day Trip for Ultrashort Real Estate
- Trader Mark submits: Well if this mutual fund thing doesn't work out, perhaps a swing trading newsletter will be the future.Yesterday's purchase of Ultrashort Real Estate SRS in the mid $53s [Bookkeeping: Wish Me Luck], is now up 25% in 24 hours. I think we actually got the exact bottom...
- External links 2008-12-18
- Cramer Is Right about Ultrashort ETFs
- Trader Mark submits: I've been doing a lot of reading lately on the construction of the ProShares instruments and frankly have to agree with the criticism. We bought Ultrashort Financials SKF and Ultrashort Real Estate SRS back in August 2007. Despite the carnage of a lifetime, Ultrashort Financial has only...
- External links 2008-12-23
- Ultra Financial, Ultra Real Estate and the Moody Market
- Trader Mark submits: People always email me - why do you own Ultra Financial UYG and Ultra Real Estate URE when you own the Ultrashorts and are not fans of those sectors?It's for times like this or near to this; the mood has amazingly turned on a dime. Not 7-8...
- External links 2009-01-15
- Ultrashort Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Is Rocking
- Trader Mark submits: Just realized I never added this position to my new portfolio - with much chagrin. It's sitting there in the old Marketocracy.com account but nowhere to be found in our new tracking as I've been focused on equities instead. I just added 10 shares, so it is...
- External links 2009-01-22
- Why I'm Covering My Short against iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond
- Trader Mark submits: I am covering almost my entire short against iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond TLT ahead of the Fed meeting Wednesday. We spoke about this instrument in our weekly round up by Trader Mark
- External links 2009-04-28
- The S&P 500 Still Can't Break Through the 200 Day Exponential Moving Average
- Trader Mark submits: Due to this fact, I am increasing index shorts measurably for the first time in many weeks. Until/unless we get back over S&P 947 and can hold it, I'll maintain this for the short term at least. All shorting has been a fool's game, but I'm a...
- External links 2009-06-10
- PIMCO Funds Is Profiting from Investor Skittishness
- Trader Mark submits:Talk this week has been that the retail investor has finally returned to the market in the past few days; further, a Wall Street Journal article touted the explosion of volume in retail brokerage companies (Ameritrade, Etrade, et al) due to daytrading / speculation in the Citigroups...
- External links 2009-09-17
Additional Resources
- Trading Lennar Like an Ultra ETF
- Trader Mark submits: If you've been reading along for any period of time, you know that a lot of old technical analysis rules have become moot - especially for trend traders those who like to hold positions for weeks or indeed months. What has been working-- although very difficult to...
- External links 2009-03-11
- What Is Driving up the Price of Oil?
- Trader Mark submits: This is an interesting development; I won't pretend to know what exactly all the causes are for this huge spike in oil while the largest user in the world (25% of all demand) has 10 year highs of inventory, and Europe is in complete disarray. I am...
- External links 2009-06-18
- Why I'm Starting to Build Gold Now
- Trader Mark submits: There are two ways to play the U.S. Banana Republic - short the dollar or long the gold. Since the world is still awash in fear, they are running into dollars how perverse. So that will be the long-term way to play this; in the short run...
- External links 2009-03-18
- Why I'm Selling a Fourth of DB Gold Double Long
- Trader Mark submits: I am going to take a quarter of my Powershares DB Gold Double Long DGP off into a nice 2.5 week run, as gold approaches $1000. This is a nice round psychological number that generally causes some retraction. If it doesn't and we just continue up, I...
- External links 2009-06-02
- Meritage Homes Does Face Plant on Earnings
- Trader Mark submits: We cut almost all our Meritage Homes MTH a week ago Friday, in retrospect about 4 days too early (despite a 25% one week surge), so Tuesday's 11% drop does nothing to us, as we have a 0.1% stake. I don't want to rebuy here, because...
- External links 2009-07-29
- Why I'm Buying October 95 SPY Puts
- Trader Mark submits: In late June, I decided to make a slight change in how I hedge; before I had been using a lot of 2x type ETF instruments which frankly cannot be held for more than a few days, as they degrade horrifically in a volatile environment. One option...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Hoping Regions Financial Runs Up Again
- Trader Mark submits: I'm starting to run into problems in terms of compliance with Marketocracy.com ; by rule I can't have more than 35% cash, and can't have more than 25% in any 1 position. I'm running against the threshold in both - since I'm using SHV (a short term...
- External links 2008-09-24
- Time to Begin a Long-Term Stake in Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap
- Trader Mark submits: With the weakness in Brazil the past week, we are going to take this opportunity to begin a long-term stake in Market Vectors Brazil Small-Cap BRF. We highlighted this name in the summer under $29 [Jun 2, 2009: Market Vectors Brazil Small Cap BRF -...
- External links 2009-10-30
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