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Review Of Open Positions – Stocks

Jon Boorman — Sat, 18 May 2013 19:40:47 +0000

Something different this week. Rather than choose a select few winners and losers with commentary I’m just going to show the charts for every single position, without commentary, because I’m not sure I really need to add anything to them. The vast majority are in strong uptrends, rising on increased volume, and you can see …

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Review Of Open Positions – Futures

Jon Boorman — Fri, 17 May 2013 23:31:34 +0000

What a week this has been. What a month, what a year. This continues to be a great period for trend followers. Every day price just makes a nonsense of price targets and fundamental rationalizations. None of them matter. Price is the final arbiter of everything you do as a trader. This week we added a …

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This Is Easy, And That’s Not Good

Jon Boorman — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:10:37 +0000

This has been a phenomenal market for trend followers. I’ve been enjoying riding this uptrend for a while now but even I’m realizing this is starting to look easy, and that’s not a good sign. Good investing or trading is never supposed to be easy. Boring, yes. But not easy. It’s starting to remind me of …

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Entering Long Exxon-Mobil ($XOM), Weatherford ($WFT)

Jon Boorman — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:44:32 +0000

If this market is to sustain its uptrend it will likely need to have some new leaders emerge from previously poor performing sectors. As we’ve discussed previously we are seeing a lot of charts in the energy sector taking shape, two of which we want to enter long this morning; Exxon-Mobil ($XOM), and Weatherford Intl …

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Trend Following Update: Long Dollar

Jon Boorman — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:36:17 +0000

As we’d suggested earlier we got confirmation after the close of a long signal in the dollar which we’ll enter at tonight’s open. This brings us up to 7 open positions: LONG S&P, Nasdaq, Dollar, SHORT 30yr, 10yr, Yen, Gold. Long Dollar Index ($DX_F) 5/15 +$0.00 per contract It was another great day for all …

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