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Agree. One of the reasons why it’s hard to respect the guy.

Personally I’m a big fan of Proshares ETF’s, they have always done exactly what I needed.. heaven forbid you can make money easily in a rough market… hopefully no one important is listening to him!

One word – leverage. Unless you’re shorting on similar leverage, of course.

The point is just that if the market stays flat or declines, you’ll make money (being short call options). If you’re short stocks, a declining market is a necessity.

Eyeballin’ it what do you think? I would not be surprised to see it @39+ in short order. catman was right to question it but the $34 price was rich as I noted- $31+ was reasonable (and easy to get).

F cancelled debt closed at what 3.95 – that is 30% plus in short order-positive story cycle is probably coming to an end- 4.15+ is quite reachable.

GFA- from 9.80 to a 13.55 close- maybe someone could work out the numbers on that one. Nevermind. Maybe booking moderate gains is good policy in a market like this one.

CF- funny action today- lower volume, hmm… yeah, well. things are only clear to me for brief periods, when I can see it, I stop looking for it.

http://mainstreet.com/article/moneyinvesting/news/happiness-index-nebraska-nabs-top-spot

Happiness Index: Nebraska Nabs Top Spot

Guess who came in number 2?

April 8th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
LB – -

Try shorting some call options. That should keep you awake (at night, also).

how is it different than just shorting 100 stocks instead of one call option contract??

why do we need PPT when we have OPM??

we are all punters now….trading by the charts…and right now people are buying because it is an uptrend….with lots of Bullish(it) signs..

i personally beleive PPT sending equities up is not very difficult and not needed, itse better to give trillions direct to the banks, auto industry,housing etc.. so that their market cap will remain up.

I have seen AAPL go from 200 to 120 back to 180 then down to 78 and now at 115. (all the while their earnings kept going up…just the expecations fluctuated)

50% variance is no big deal in this casi-no.

but it must be frustrating that the trade which the whole world is waiting for is not working

re NVEC, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in reation to the ‘e-Grid hacked’-story

also, DoD/DHS might be getting ready to lay some ‘tracts on them..