HPQ earning should lead market higher tomorrow. HD jumped about 9% contrasted to LOW’s 9% drop yesterday! Little changed on all indexes.
Closed all shorts on LOW, SOHU, CSCO and IBM.
401(k) is 100% in cash now.
Monthly Archives: May 2003
Correction or Reserval?
DOW dropped 185.58 to 8493.39 below 8500. NASDAQ closed @ 1492.77 below 1500 and Russel 2000 closed @ 408.32.
LOW dropped almost 9% due to lower than forcasted revenue. The short position opened Friday went up more than 130%!
SOHU closed with bearish harami candle posing to reverse at almost twice of average volume.
MSFT broke down the trading range and support level is @24. The long position will be opened @24 level.
Support level IBM @ 85 and CSCO @ 15.5.
OAKMX and LSCRX: the remaining positions will be closed tomorrow.
Reducing position size in OAKMX and LSCRX
DOW closed @ 8,678.97. It’s still in the uptrend, but it seems stalled a little bit. Russel 2000 dropped to 414.69. NASDAQ closed @ 1,538.53. If it’s not topped, it’s close.
OAKMX: sold half of remaining position.
LSCRX: sold half of remaining position.
Bought puts on IBM, CSCO, SUNW, SOHU and LOW.
Design Patterns and .NET
Microsoft has published a suite of design patterns using .NET. Not surprisingly, you can find striking similarities with the design patterns published by Sun Microsystems for the J2EE platform. Here’s the link for Patterns & Practices .
It’s definitely a good resource for architecting any solutions.
For discussion on patterns, visit this Patterns Community.
By the way, Mono project team has released Mono 0.24, which implements .NET on Linux.
DOW 9000?
DOW has passed 8500 and NASDAQ has passed 1500. We shall see how the market reacts on CSCO earning report (1c over estimate and flat guidence for Q4, traded lower AH).
SOHU closed lower @18.48. Long SOHU May 20 Put. Added GSF May 20 Calls. Shorted MSFT May 25 Calls and Long MSFT June 27.5 Calls.