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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna

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To: William H Huebl who wrote (56448)12/10/2001 7:38:51 PM
From: James F. Hopkins  Read Replies (3) of 94695
 
I've been back on the Tug Boat for a while now and enjoying
it too. So I haven't been trading as much or keeping
my usual eye on the market. Just sort of winging it.

Like most I took a good size hit in September but had
enough cash to buy some more and all in all I'm up 50%
from my September low. I only have 8 long positions
3 of which are bull option spreads on the QQQ.

In the last 3 weeks I started hedging off those longs
using the USPIX and for the most part have stood
still I added some to the short fund last Thursday
so I'm overall just a tad more short than long.

If and when I close the short fund side I'll wind up
about 40% stocks 40% ( old bonds ) and 20% cash
Taht USPIX is 2x short so I can hedge with it and
not use a lot of cash to do so.
While it's my smallest market position the drop today
helped my overall position more than hurting it.
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With the boat work and me dabbing in some local
real estate I feel I'm going to slowly be
getting out of the stock market.
My dead line is 2004 ( if not before )
Any real strong run up and I'll clear out
my longs sooner. I've concluded I can do as
good or better than the market just
flipping local real-estate.
Jim
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