Monday, October 17, 2011

Indices Down 1.76% to 1.95% on German news ?

Indices are down on German statement that nothing will be finalized anytime soon.

European debt issues has many linkages which needs to be factored @ every step.

Markets pullback is healthy as we had a "jubilant runup"......

Internals are negative by 3 to 1...

Gold Down $13.20..before gold used to move UP on any uncertainty ?

Oil Down 36 cents

Canadian $ Down 65 tick @ 98.34

VIX UP 14.31% @ 32.28

Portfolio is JCP,MS,LULU,RIMM...

Most stocks are down

@ 1.44 following are UP :

JCP,MS,WYNN,NTES,MPEL.....

BLOG does NOT give buy or sell.

Saleem

12 comments:

Up said...

Hi S

Great write up, with market pulling back, I am getting some SDS and see if it work or not

Stocks100 said...

Hi Up,

Thanks for your feedback.

YES few days of weakness has a very high probability.

Good luck with SDS.

Saleem

c said...

Saleem

Hello --what a red day

We were over due for sell off

I hesitated on my planned sales--yuk

ETP is a surprise for me is is my KMP!
AmeriGas Partners LP (APU), the largest retail propane distributor, will buy the propane operations of Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP) for $2.8 billion, the companies said today.
I owned both as a div defensive play
now I gotta hurt for replacements--maybe buy EVEP again.--just thinking....

KO is really getting beaten down in price...

have a good en
C

Stocks100 said...

Hi C,

Always execute ASAP what you planned......

Markets can become very painful if we do not book profit..a lesson which i keep learning over & over...

I am glad you have takeover in your portfolio.....$$$$$

You know many stocks better than most of us.......

Good luck with your next buy !!!!

Saleem

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey Saleem,

Volume is crazy light today for a Monday. I can't tell if that means we'll have a better shake upcoming, or if this is it.

I'm still 100% long and waiting to see how this plays out.

Stocktrader

stocktrader_1996 said...

I will admit though, having KOG is helping me be patient on everything else dropping today.

Stocks100 said...

Hi Stocktrader,

Volume was light on Friday also.

It is a low volume market as retail has been taken to woodshed by HFT....

6% UP move by KOG is a good thing for any portfolio.....

Saleem

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey Saleem,

Swapped out my shipper TK for VMW--playing the earnings. The cloud should be strong in Q3/Q4/2012?

Stocktrader

Up said...

problem about VMW's earning play is it went up too much last week and it is in a overbought environment. Personally I wouldn't play any earning this week. Even AAPL will be scary too

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hi Up,

VMW was dead even in price from last Monday, so I didn't feel the "runup" problem was in play.

If I'd known the numbers and guidance ahead of time as they reported tonight, I'd have made the same decision, so I feel fine.

If the market continues to move down VMW will likely follow of course, but I like the position now if the market moves back up :).

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...

Hi Stocktrader,

VMW is a solid company with predictable results....

In today's TAPE a beat was not good enough......

I used to trade VMW long time ago from $90+ to $130+.....those were the good old days..when ER was a pleasure......

Saleem

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hey Saleem,

Yes, clearly the tape is affecting the potential for earnings pops. If the tape improves, I am pleased with my new holding and extra diversification.

Stocktrader