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Sugar, We’re Going Down Swinging

Started by 1modelcitizen · 10 months ago

Friends, it’s time to get hedged, cut your losers, and start swinging for the fences with shorts as our economy goes down. Our monetary programme is founded on the American consumer and those consumers, in addition to recoiling from the sting ... Continue reading »

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  • Josh

    10 months ago

    I asked the same question on your article on Seeking Alpha. Do you have pointers to the following quesitons?

    I've been trying to time AMEX:SKF in my short portfolio for almost exactly a year now. Through a combination of my own imperfect human discretionary timing and fighting the Fed, who seems to rear his ugly head every now and then unannounced, I've been able to get the same results as if I had just put the money in from last Aug. 07' to this Aug.08' .

    In essence, I'm looking for an optimal short fund to rotate in/out on a quarterly, bi-yearly, and yearly basis or based on some other metric as described below.

    The following well research study by the Anderson business school in UCLA correlates the business cycle and how housing has influenced this cycle since the Depression.
    http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty/edward.lea...
    If we fast forward to the conclusion, Pg.51, this is the meat of the doc.

    “The temporal ordering of the spending weakness is: residential investment,
    consumer durables, consumer nondurables and consumer services before the
    recession, and then, once the recession officially commences, business spending
    on the short-lived assets, equipment and software, and, last, business spending on
    the long-lived assets, offices and factories. The ordering in the recovery is
    exactly the same.”

    1) Could you match the current “temporal ordering” we are currently blessed with with?
    2) Are these “Temporal Orderings” in the right order?
    3) From the answer to #1 above, could you assist me with matching the best short fund one could use to optimize their gains by pairing our current a “temporal ordering” with this fund?


    My call is that we are in the Consumer Services “Temporal Order” phase and the AMEX:SCC Profunds is the most appropriate short fund to map right now at this time.
    Any advice would be appreciated.

    Thank you in advance,

    FYI - Here is an update from the recent Jackson Hole trip from the above research.
    http://www.kc.frb.org/publicat/sympos/2007/PDF/...

    -Josh
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  • Josh

    10 months ago

    I forgot to add this one question.
    4) What is the best way to inverse XLY?
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  • 1modelcitizen

    10 months ago

    Josh, thanks for sharing your questions and comments - both here and at seekingalpha. It sounds like you are taking on the markets, and that is fantastic. For me, exposing money to risks in the markets is a lot of work and is "made to order" by me for my personal risk pallette. It has taken me well over ten years to figure out which indicators to use, which instruments to deploy, how much money to risk, and how much of my life to devote to it. As a former investments education mentor, I remember that it took my new students approximately 2 years (1-3 discussions per week) to resolve their investment posture. Most of them didn't make it past the 6 month mark and quit. I don't have the luxury of formally working with you on your considerations (but I wish I did - you'd be a quick study, that's obvious). Bottom line: there are several ways to take a bearish stance on XLY. It can be shorted, you could create a basket of shorts from the top 10 or some other proxy (http://www.ssgafunds.com/etf/fund/etf_detail_XL...), you could go long the puts (even though the price spreads are ugly), you could create a bear call spread, etc. etc. etc. It is not my intention to discourage you. This is my way of dancing around the liability that a recommendation of any sort would present. Like the rest of us, I'm afraid you're on your own. That being said, you don't have to be alone. There are three communities that I suggest. All three are blogrolled in the column on the right. Check them out and tell me which you like best. Again, thanks for chiming in and please continue to do so. Wishing you consistent success, Brian.
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  • DD

    10 months ago

    I got lots of target practice over the weekend. and I swung a lot of axe handle. the sooner I have a back yard full of fire wood the better.

    I have been making job contacts for friends and family and self... Nothing has been produced, but I got lots of free fire wood in the process...

    As soon as I get Obama to pay off my mortgage I will be ready to go live the good life...

    JUST FOCUS ON WHAT YOU SEE AND NOT WHAT YOU THINK...
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