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  • The market “feels” different. Patience is key
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | January 16th, 2010 at 5:13 pm

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    Pretty vague title i know, but do you feel what i feel? The last week a lot has changed in my opinion in regards to price action across all sectors.

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  • Rambus.. what gives? reading the price action
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | January 14th, 2010 at 7:48 am

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    Once again today we saw more action to the downside in rambus, as previously reported there was a "fat finger" trade which was busted and rolled back.

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  • Theoretical SPY chart foreshadowing a 2015 crash?
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | January 7th, 2010 at 7:41 am

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    I put this chart together after quite a bit of squinting last night. (Monthly) The chart is very rough and very speculative but has given me and hopefully you a good visual representation of the next five years trend.

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  • The Rambus “fat finger”
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | January 5th, 2010 at 7:30 am

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    For all of you who witnessed RMBS falling 6 points in a few seconds you are probably asking what happened? how can this happen? Well first off NASDAQ stocks do not have specialists so if a huge order hits the market it will execute all the way down and or up the book.

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  • Google @ 600, im taking her off.
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | December 22nd, 2009 at 7:59 am

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    The one long term trade i have had on this year is long Google, i initiated the trade after i noticed an interesting trading pattern developing, the "megaphone".

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  • Did the canary just drop dead? Whitney just spoke
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | December 16th, 2009 at 7:52 am

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    FIRST: Whitney's cautious comments on Bank of America sent the market into a dive, regardless of what CNBC might have to say. If this were last year she would have been live on the air. read more...

  • The trend was your friend….
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | December 8th, 2009 at 8:10 am

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    Anyone who has been actively trading the past few months probably has noticed a few peculiar occurrences. The USD/Equities correlation has been running the show for months causing added intra day volatility when anyone speaks about currency. read more...

  • The biggest moves happen when you least expect
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | December 4th, 2009 at 8:06 am

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    IF you follow my ramblings on Stocktwits you probably hear me say, "the biggest moves happen when you least expect" after the market seemingly moves out of nowhere. Lets face it when we expect a macro move of the markets it usually does not happen on "our" clock, the market makes the decision.

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  • Indicators which foretell the future? You don’t say..
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | November 23rd, 2009 at 8:26 am

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    YES! I have found the holy grail of trading, the magic 8 ball! Well, no not exactly. Thougha few indicators I use are as close as you can get to a crystal ball.

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  • The melt higher. Scenario recognition.
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | November 17th, 2009 at 8:06 am

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    Today was a prime example of the trading we have been seeing for weeks now.

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  • The Genzyme trade. Focus on key words like “garbage”
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | November 14th, 2009 at 11:42 am

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    Not every day trades like GENZ come around and really perform. Trades like this you must interpret the news extremely quickly and make a directional decision even faster.

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  • The biggest moves happen when you least expect them
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | November 13th, 2009 at 8:26 am

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    Today is a classic example of the biggest moves happen when you least expect them.

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  • E-mini gunning the new “Cool”
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | November 12th, 2009 at 8:27 am

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    The pragmatic capitalist had a great post on the mystery buyer in the futures markets as of late (via zerohedge).

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  • Retail comes out of the woodwork. Priceline & Monsanto
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | November 11th, 2009 at 8:31 am

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    Maybe it is just me but did anyone else have the feeling retail day traders were actually showing their numbers today?

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  • “Victory for the Bulls!” Dow 25,000 here we come.
    Hedge Accordingly, SellPuts | November 10th, 2009 at 8:29 am

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    I think the most fitting phrase to kick this rant off with is "Victory for the bulls!" as Bob Pisani would say.

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