Posts Tagged ‘BKS’

• Momentum Book Update
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on June 26th, 2010 at 4:47 pm, Comments: 0

  Another week of completely bipolar market action better left to the day traders.  As opposed to last week where we went only up, this week there were no bids in sight.  Staying disciplined to your strategy at this time is so incredibly important.  Not only do us swing traders have to fight the urge to [...]

• Long The Long Bond
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on June 22nd, 2010 at 3:52 pm, Comments: 0

  I bought 25% of my book in TLT today at 97.96.  Although that sounds like a lot, the risk is extremely low as the trade would have cost me less than .4% of total account values had it gone against me and stopped me out, it’s a slow moving asset. The long bond is breaking [...]

• Strategy Session: Dip Your Toe to Feel the Water
  Posted by Leigh Drogen on June 21st, 2010 at 5:06 pm, Comments: 0

  I’ve talked at length here over the past few weeks about how I’ve been largely paralyzed at my desk, unable to pull the trigger on the long side.  I had a great  Febrary-May, just about as good as I could have expected myself to trade.  I put on risk when it was appropriate, took it off when [...]