If you think the bond market is close to its top, you might consider shorting it. How? Here’s one way to short bond – buy this Rydex Juno fund (RYJUX) (annual expense ratio 1.4%). The downside risk is that the interest rate may go even lower or stay low for a while. The upside is that the interest rate moves higher.
Monthly Archives: May 2003
Taking profits
The market went up again. Both NASDAQ and DOW are almost at their 52 week highs. Although it could move higher, there is nothing wrong taking profits here.
Closed IBM, CSCO and LOW positions.
ETFs
I did some research on ETFs for fixed income and market exposure in China at ETFConnect. Here’s the list:
5.40%,
United States
7.90%,
Taiwan
33.90%,
Hong Kong
47.10% (too little exposure in China)
24.40%,
Taiwan
26.30%,
Hong Kong
49.10%
7.70%,
Hong Kong
34.70%,
China
40.30%
The market moved higher in the morning then gave up most of gains and ended slightly higher. Profit taking maybe …
A lot of selling on MSFT pushed price to drop 0.38 in volume of almost 100 million shares.
Hitlist
I read Hitman’s Hitlist quite often. It’s a interesting saga of love affair, trading, and many things in life.
The market went up a bunch today after consumer confidence and new housing start data was released. DOW ended @8,781.35, NASDAQ @1,556.69, Russel @427.71 and S&P @951.48.
Targets: IBM @90, CSCO @16.6, MSFT @26 and LOW @42 (gap down as resistence).
Microsoft CEO sold 39 million shares…
Long MSFT calls: it held right at support level @24 and both BB and stochastic at extremes after a week of selling fuled by rumor of insider selling – it turned out that Steve Ballmer sold 39 million shares.
Long LOW, IBM and CSCO calls: expecting bounce from recent drops.