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Record Margin Debt and a Liquidity Crunch

... position.  Currently 24% of my portfolio is in QID (shorting the Nasdaq) which I view as essentially cash.  If the market goes down, I will make some money and can sell QID at any time to buy more of my favorite stocks.  If the market goes up ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2007-04-11 22:50 - 4 comments

Tuesday Bloody Tuesday

... schin was holding the UltraShort QQQ ProShares ETF ( QID ) and that same week I had talked with bruno, who was also holding QID, about a possible correction.  QID is an ETF that is 200% the inverse ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2007-02-27 19:55 - 4 comments - 1 attachment

I started liquidating my ultrashort position today

The short-term bear run lasted only 3 days.  Last Friday, we broke past the +2% hurdle on the S&P500 which put us back into the short-term bull run. I started liquidating my ultrashort position today.  I may do it slowly over the next seve ...

personal blog entry - Vooch - 2007-06-18 21:39 - 7 comments

Ultrashort for Fun and Profit

I've been investing in QID for quite some time now. QID is an ultrashort ETF that provides 200% inverse returns to the Nasdaq 100. When the Nasdaq 100 goes down, QID goes up by twice as much. My overall position is still down, but last month ...

personal blog entry - Suntzu - 2007-11-25 17:26 - 0 comments

Corrections, liquidity, and gold

... some phenomenal drilling results.  Next I sold my QID a week or so before the correction.  Lack of patience is no doubt my ... the U.S. economy, I made the decision not to buy back into QID and not to short anything else.  Shorting, simply, is just not my ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2007-08-13 02:17 - 1 comment

Another Down Week

... I closed out my short position on the Nasdaq 100 ( QID ) this week. The Nasdaq 100 has fallen about 17.5% from its' October peak ...

personal blog entry - Suntzu - 2008-01-19 23:01 - 5 comments

My Current Worries Shorting the Nasdaq

... This time it does not look to be any better. My QID position is down around 12%.  That's not bad, but I have a rather ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2007-05-22 02:01 - 8 comments

Knives and trains

... train”. Reading Theo’s article about his QID position I was thinking to myself that if we are indeed in the middle of a ... So after much thought I’m going to abandon my QID position and forfeit the additional profits that are available IF in fact ...

personal blog entry - sharpsicle - 2007-05-29 11:46 - 3 comments - 3 attachments

SLW.TO

... the lack of a positive reaction. This made me think that QID will perform better than cash over the next three months or so. I currently have a monster position in QID and will sell it down when attractive opportunities present themselves. ...

personal blog entry - Suntzu - 2007-03-10 16:09 - 6 comments

Revisiting My Nasdaq Short

After getting my butt kicked on my Nasdaq short for the last few weeks, I began to seriously question my logic last night. When I started the position, my basic premise was that the American economy was going into a recession and the Nasdaq would suffer th ...

personal blog entry - Suntzu - 2007-05-11 00:33 - 2 comments

Pairs trading: hedging out the industry risk

A stock trader believes that the stock price of FOO, Inc., will rise over the next month, due to this company's new and efficient method of producing widgets. He wants to buy FOO shares to profit from their expected price increase. But FOO is part of t ...

personal blog entry - GordonGekko - 2007-11-24 19:03 - 4 comments

CHECKMATE

First I would like to say thank you to all of you : Theo, Vooch, F.K.Soft, JanHendrik, Bruno and others I love this website. I bought JOSB 15/6/2006. I have been holding the stock for 10 months now. JOSB has one of the biggest number ...

personal blog entry - GordonGekko - 2007-04-17 06:29 - 6 comments

Logic Behind Hedge Funds

... PS:Now I understand why some stokblogers put QID to their portfolios. Smart choice !      ...

personal blog entry - GordonGekko - 2007-07-04 09:44 - 1 comment

Raising Cash (again)

... of my portfolio. The last thing I will talk about is my QID short on the Nasdaq.  This position I will keep because I strongly ...

personal blog entry - Theo - 2007-05-03 01:40 - 5 comments

...And Then There Were Three

... we see this: 1. hyolee - 99% ultrashort via QID 2. mrgoad - 100% cash 3. uffnik - 25% cash and the rest concentrated in 3 ...

personal blog entry - Vooch - 2008-10-07 00:34 - 1 comment