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Post by amdda01 » Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:56 pm

MJ,

You makin' a move?

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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:59 pm

Sold Tlt ....wow , I was down a few thousand then up a few thousand. So gone before it evaporates again...still down with gold
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Post by amdda01 » Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:56 am

What's MJ got cookin this week?
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Post by mathjak107 » Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:53 am

Just selling gld .....this market is very difficult to trade
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Post by pmward » Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:14 pm

Bad time to sell gold, imo. It just did a standard 50% retracement of the up leg that started from the Oct 2018 lows, and also passed a test of the 200 day moving average last week. All technical signals point to the next leg of the up-trend starting. Everything we have seen in this pullback was all standard consolidation between legs of a bull trend. Gold has only completed it's first leg of the new bull market. It has much higher to go.
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Post by amdda01 » Mon Mar 23, 2020 12:55 pm

pmward onto something:

* IAU : +4.78%
* TLT : +3.81%

I know you're lickin' your chops, MJ.
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Post by mathjak107 » Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:55 pm

meh ... the fact equities are down so much takes the fun out of the little hits
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Post by amdda01 » Mon Mar 23, 2020 1:57 pm

Hear ya - Any predictions for tomorrow (3/24)?
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Post by mathjak107 » Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:55 pm

can't even guess ..we may get a bump up in stocks if congress plays nice but that will be short lived .

being at the epee center here in nyc i can tell you things are getting worse and worse ...i think markets may only be 2/3;'s to half way to a bottom .

our governor said we maybe locked down pretty much until as long as june
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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Mar 27, 2020 7:09 am

bought 200 shares sdow at the close ... i figured 3 days of gains and a friday says we are ripe for a down day
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Post by Cortopassi » Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:02 am

Bad timing mj, didn't you get the news? We are already back in a bull market <sarc>

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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:36 am

sdow sold .....up 10% since the close ...
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Post by amdda01 » Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:40 am

Nailed it.
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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:38 am

just a lucky guess ... i mean 4 days of up in stocks was really betting against the house ... fridays too tend to see traders unload more often than not.

the odds said we were due for a drop .....
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Post by dualstow » Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:45 am

Yeah Fridays often involve profit-taking, but especially when the market is on shaky ground.
I don't short and I wasn't as confident as you, but I thought, my dollar cost averaging will work a little bit better tomorrow.
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Post by mathjak107 » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:32 am

mondays too can be awful , but sdow is a 3x inverse fund .. it can do damage quickly ..... it was the first time i ever bought it .... i kind of wish i lost a bit so i would be less inclined to do it again .
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Post by pmward » Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:41 am

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mondays too can be awful , but sdow is a 3x inverse fund .. it can do damage quickly ..... it was the first time i ever bought it .... i kind of wish i lost a bit so i would be less inclined to do it again .
Yeah I've been burned by 3x ETF's in the past as well. One of my rules that came from that is to never hold one overnight. Overnight gap risk is too much, especially in volatile markets like this. Intraday trades only for me on levered ETF's.
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Post by mathjak107 » Sat Mar 28, 2020 4:37 pm

High yield is starting to look very attractive....the market is pricing like every company is going to default ....we saw this a few years ago when oil was on the rocks ......high yield soared ..... I will be taking a decent size position this week in Fidelity Sphix ...I want only managed when it comes to high yield
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Post by pmward » Sat Mar 28, 2020 8:44 pm

That's a ballsy move, as a mass default and corporate deleveraging is a real possible outcome of this. How are you sizing it? Is it a small percentage moonshot or are you putting decent size behind it?
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Post by mathjak107 » Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:13 am

pmward wrote:
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That's a ballsy move, as a mass default and corporate deleveraging is a real possible outcome of this. How are you sizing it? Is it a small percentage moonshot or are you putting decent size behind it?
prices reflect a huge amount of defaults already .likely far far more then actually will pan out . they lost as much or more than stocks did.

last time oil fell in 2016 the high yield market sold off like now .... for the year my fidelity high yield fund was up 19% while equities were up less ...

it is a crazy market and sell offs tend to be way over done . interest rates are in the 6% range so it has quite a cushion for a bit more down .
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Post by mathjak107 » Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:07 pm

bought some hyg... it is paying a crazy rate of interest for the risk
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Post by Kriegsspiel » Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:11 pm

What does HYG do, sell fluffy sweaters and comfortable fireplaces?
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Post by amdda01 » Tue Mar 31, 2020 12:15 pm

Are you planning on holding - or quick turnaround?
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Post by mathjak107 » Tue Mar 31, 2020 1:00 pm

I will see ... at these interest levels on it in a zero world I have quite a cushion ....I am going to shift a major bond position of my portfolio over to fidelity high income maybe Thursday or Friday and I may just put this towards that position
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