Investing Journal - T2S

sold a CAT weekly call @ 87.5 for .60

CSCO was making me a little nervous but very happy to see the move it's making today and yesterday.

Credit card debt reached it's height last month at 6k. however it's now down to 2k. should hopefully knock out the rest of it this month and then begin depositing into this account to at the very least replenish it back the 9k i withdrew.
 
been neglecting updates because well my performance hasnt been great =/

but anyways here it is:

Account@ $22,266

Still hold CAT, UTX, and CSCO at previous mentioned prices..all 3 have been killing me lately.

2 days ago I bought PCN at 17.34 looking to hold it for a swing trade. I got a quick 1 day bounce and sold yesterday at 17.93, its up huge again today so wish I held it one more day, regardless still happy on the 3.5% return in 24 hours.

Today I bought HAS at $38.69 and already getting a very nice run up in this holding today. Really looking to hold this one as I think it can get a nice bounce going into the holidays. This one might even be a long term holder and will be looking to sell calls/swing trade

Should get CC debt to 3 figures this month and then eliminated next month, then I will begin rebuilding this account back up before the withdraws.
 
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been neglecting updates because well my performance hasnt been great =/

but anyways here it is:

Account@ $22,266

Still hold CAT, UTX, and CSCO at previous mentioned prices..all 3 have been killing me lately.

2 days ago I bought PCN at 17.34 looking to hold it for a swing trade. I got a quick 1 day bounce and sold yesterday at 17.93, its up huge again today so wish I held it one more day, regardless still happy on the 3.5% return in 24 hours.

Today I bought HAS at $38.69 and already getting a very nice run up in this holding today. Really looking to hold this one as I think it can get a nice bounce going into the holidays. This one might even be a long term holder and will be looking to sell calls/swing trade

Should get CC debt to 3 figures this month and then eliminated next month, then I will begin rebuilding this account back up before the withdraws.
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I have CAT and INTC if it's any consolation. I also went into QCOR at $30... all of these via selling puts.

What won't be a consolation is that somehow I still made money in Sept and so far in Oct. Don't ask me how the markets work.

It's weird. Some stocks have gotten really hurt. The pattern is they rally a lot in august and give up all the gains now. The broader market hasn't done the same so something is unique to these stocks.
CAT, CE, WDC are examples.
 
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I It's weird. Some stocks have gotten really hurt. The pattern is they rally a lot in august and give up all the gains now. The broader market hasn't done the same so something is unique to these stocks.
CAT, CE, WDC are examples.
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WDC what a dog. Yea I have it in the retirement acct. Stuff like that makes me think I'm getting way too aggressive with my value stuff and should go back to finding net-nets.

If there's 1 thing I learned this year, it's correlation risk.
 
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WDC what a dog. Yea I have it in the retirement acct. Stuff like that makes me think I'm getting way too aggressive with my value stuff and should go back to finding net-nets.

If there's 1 thing I learned this year, it's correlation risk.
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correlation being high or low?

WDC is an interesting stock. It's very leveraged to it's industry. Look at it. 26 on the thai floods; 45 on macro and now 35 as tech deflates. I don't know a lot about the company though - but i get the sense it has a lot of operating leverage which is why the stock is so volatile.
 
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correlation being high or low?

WDC is an interesting stock. It's very leveraged to it's industry. Look at it. 26 on the thai floods; 45 on macro and now 35 as tech deflates. I don't know a lot about the company though - but i get the sense it has a lot of operating leverage which is why the stock is so volatile.
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It's high when I want it to be low and low when I want it to be high. I'm just getting straight fucked. At least I learned how to deal with it, the hard way of course.

Anyways, WDC doesn't even have a lot of leverage. It trades like CAT et al. on global concerns, when the company derives the vast majority of its earnings on SSDs. And yes, there are concerns that demand is waning, however the company still made a shitload of cash and is projected to do so for at least 1 more quarter. To sum, I really thought it'd be stronger. Hell, my RIMM position is doing better than WDC.
 
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It's high when I want it to be low and low when I want it to be high. I'm just getting straight fucked. At least I learned how to deal with it, the hard way of course.

Anyways, WDC doesn't even have a lot of leverage. It trades like CAT et al. on global concerns, when the company derives the vast majority of its earnings on SSDs. And yes, there are concerns that demand is waning, however the company still made a shitload of cash and is projected to do so for at least 1 more quarter. To sum, I really thought it'd be stronger. Hell, my RIMM position is doing better than WDC.
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Are you running a long only type portfolio or are you running a long short portfolio?
 
Retirement is long only, main trading acct is long short neutral whatever. It's actually global macro biased. Best of luck to us, I'm looking forward to more volatile times ahead.
 
out of the top 5 DOW stocks today, 3 of them are my only 3 holdings:

CSCO
UTX
and the biggest winner of the day CAT

The other two being BA and INTC

I have yet to decide whether this is a good or bad thing. I think what this means is if the market goes down ill get killed, if the market goes up ill out perform.

keeping everything as is for now. Happy to finally have a decent out performance day.
 
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