Following Mr.Obama's comments on banking reform on Thursday, the S&P conculsively broke it's long term support on the downside. This prompted me to stop and reverse my long S&P position. As you can see below, the size of my short is double that of the long position I had previously - this is because my conviction for trading the break of the support was very strong.
The apparent reversal in the market also caused some of my longs to get stopped out - namely Cameco Corp and the Powershares Water Fund. From this I decided to reduce the risk of the portfolio and close the EM ETF and the iShares Energy Fund. The reason is that the portfolio feels overweighted on the long side considering this may be the start of a wave down.
I have opened short positions in Lloyds, Bank of America and Ford to hopefully capture some of the move down. You can see the details below - I will follow up with graphs in due course.
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Monday, 25 January 2010
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