Strategy Continued

Carefully scaling into more oils. Buying some PARE.

Putting Money to Work

Scaling into Tanyanika Oil, Lundin Petroleum, Vostok Nafta and bidding on Lundin Mining. Renewed strength in crude.

Profit Taking

Taking profit in the crude contracts. Might be too early, but a very nice trade anyway.

Taking Profit

Exiting XACT BULL here. Frustrating that the oils keep going higher, although the commodity is plummeting. At least I'm short the crude.

Trading

Bought OMX BULL, which gives 2x leverage to OMX. Bought more GOOG. Shorted more March Crude. Still bidding on GOOG.

Selling Oils

Sold my positions in TYKS and PARE, looking to buy back cheaper.

A Trade and Some Thoughts

Going short the March contract as this moves looks overdone. Soon time to build position for GOOG earnings next week.

Crude Future

Expired. Played out nice after the numbers, but then something happended.

Crude

Shorting crude, looking to buy back in the coming days.

Trading

Doubling up on GOOG right here at $450. Taking profit on the Nasdaq future, closing out position.

Market

Short Nasdaq future turn out to be the right thing to do. Might look to sell GOOG in the opening, as this could get really ugly short term. Think crude might overdone its move, might go short before numbers are released. That could provide a cushion for the Equity markets as well. If that happens looking to buy GOOG aggressively as YHOO wasn't that bad at all. Will scale back in, in oils as well if this plays out, as I think these prices are fantastic for the companies. Interesting markets.

A Trade

Selling the rest of VOST. Looking to buy back cheaper in the coming days.

Equity Markets

Going short the March Nasdaq future as markets in Asia are falling apart, with the trigger being higher oil prices on Iran news.

GOOGLE

On the sell side with half my position.

Locking in Profits

Selling half of TYKS, PARE and on the sell side on VOST, who has exploded on the upside lately. Think there might be some downside to energy markets and equity markets short term.

Crude

Covered position. Very dangerous to go against a bull market, even though it looked good last night.

Lupe

Selling position on the bearish Crude reaction.

Google, Crude

As Google is making new ATH every second day, I am at the same time disappointed. Look at the user interfaces for the new services Base and Video. They are great products from a great company, but they will never get mass appeal the way they currently look. Staying long. Looking for very strong Q4 numbers.

Crude is playing out nice, edging lower here. But it all depends on the number soon out. In the meantime VOST at new ATH, LUPE extremely strong and TYKS is also up almost 2%, only PARE lower.

Shorting Crude

Shorting crude in a move of speculation in front of today's statistics. We had a price run-up, warm weather, so hoping we will see a pullback here.

Update

The holidays proved to be expensive. Missed a huge buying opportunity in GOOGLE when its shares was trading at $413 just before the new year. Below the returns since my last post on December 22 close:

LUPE 2.3% TYKS 14.7% PARE 8.3% VOST 4.6% GOOG 9.1%