Bookkeeping: Making Some Long Purchases - Trader Mark

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Bookkeeping: Making Some Long Purchases
Nov 06, 2009 03:13 PM UTC

Trader Mark

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Symbol	Sentiment	Start	Return	Closed
BX	n/a
GFA	n/a

Via Fund my Mutual Fund:

Now that the 2 big news events of the week are out of the way, and thus far the drop below the 50 day moving average looks just like it did in July 2009 - that is, a headfake I'll get back some longs. I am surprised it is just that easy... we had 5 intraday reversals in 9 sessions during this selloff; in the past that would mean very bad things. But its a new paradigm of easy money I guess.

All the below are stocks that broke back above key resistance areas or never broke down below during this selloff; therefore I can place tight stops and not take too much damage if this is just a head fake. Until that Russell 2000 resistance is broken, which represents the smaller and mid cap names rather than just the typical names people run up on every rally (Google, Apple, Goldman, blah blha), I'm still wary.

Example chart I am buying:

I added back to our current names:

1% exposure to Gafisa (GFA)

1% exposure to Blackstone Group (BX)

If the market rolls over and/or these stocks fall again below key moving averages, we'll be right back out. For now I hold my nose and buy.

Long all names mentioned in fund; no personal position

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