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Proshares and Ishares have very good ETFs I use for exposure to commodities, indexes, the VIX, currencies, etc.
As far as being long on commodities and shorting the broad equity markets, I'm down upper single digits to low double digits overall on those portions of my portfolio YTD. I'm up low double digits on crude and pretty much down somewhat on things like gold, silver, nat gas, platinum, etc. Up slightly on a small palladium position. Still holding lots of cash, and have been selling off more and more of my long positions in the last 11 months.
I had a short on HLF about a year and a half ago that I held a few months that did well for several months. I covered completely and got out once Ichan and others started getting in long. But I recently bought a put on it, along with puts on TSLA, JCP, and NFLX (which I also still have a small long stock position in).
I had been long on AAPL for years, but sold most of it early this year. But I recently bought more.
I've largely gotten away from long positions on very many stocks, but I have done well YTD on a limited # of holdings.
I have had long positions in: IEP, UHAL, BIDU, RGR, SWHC, AWH, BPL, OUTR, FRX, ECPG, CBST, CHK, XIN, GPOR, EOG, ROST, AIRM, ANDE, ANW, CLR, and a few others here and there.
And you always get hosed here and there on a few, of course. CTXS got pounded good a few days ago.
A few bucks in very speculative holdings: CVVT, AMAP, VNET, GGAL, AIR, CYOU, DQ, BLDP.
Sold the little LNG I bought several years ago after a great run it's had. Also sold GTAT after a great run up YTD. CYH too.
Made a killing earlier in the year on a short term buy of EBIX after it lost over 50% in a week on some scandal that seemed minor and isolated and seemed to quickly blow over. The stock quickly recovered, then shot up on news that GS bought them out a short time later. I thankfully sold out completely on that news, then the stock soon dropped again when the sale did not go through due to some sort of accounting irregularities.
As far as being long on commodities and shorting the broad equity markets, I'm down upper single digits to low double digits overall on those portions of my portfolio YTD. I'm up low double digits on crude and pretty much down somewhat on things like gold, silver, nat gas, platinum, etc. Up slightly on a small palladium position. Still holding lots of cash, and have been selling off more and more of my long positions in the last 11 months.
I had a short on HLF about a year and a half ago that I held a few months that did well for several months. I covered completely and got out once Ichan and others started getting in long. But I recently bought a put on it, along with puts on TSLA, JCP, and NFLX (which I also still have a small long stock position in).
I had been long on AAPL for years, but sold most of it early this year. But I recently bought more.
I've largely gotten away from long positions on very many stocks, but I have done well YTD on a limited # of holdings.
I have had long positions in: IEP, UHAL, BIDU, RGR, SWHC, AWH, BPL, OUTR, FRX, ECPG, CBST, CHK, XIN, GPOR, EOG, ROST, AIRM, ANDE, ANW, CLR, and a few others here and there.
And you always get hosed here and there on a few, of course. CTXS got pounded good a few days ago.
A few bucks in very speculative holdings: CVVT, AMAP, VNET, GGAL, AIR, CYOU, DQ, BLDP.
Sold the little LNG I bought several years ago after a great run it's had. Also sold GTAT after a great run up YTD. CYH too.
Made a killing earlier in the year on a short term buy of EBIX after it lost over 50% in a week on some scandal that seemed minor and isolated and seemed to quickly blow over. The stock quickly recovered, then shot up on news that GS bought them out a short time later. I thankfully sold out completely on that news, then the stock soon dropped again when the sale did not go through due to some sort of accounting irregularities.
JR Ewing
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JR Ewing
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We've been walking on broken glass for years. The Fed continues to keep rates down and won't taper, and the recovery has been very sluggish. And just about everyone in Washington seems to only be concerned with the short term polls and doing whatever they have to do to keep everyone's 401ks artificially inflated - so they can not cause or get blamed for this or that short term crisis, and can get votes and hopefully win this or that next election. There's very little regard for the big picture, and very few have the courage to tackle the big issues such as the $17 trillion, true economic recovery and growth, jobs, entitlements, the budget, etc.
JR Ewing
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Yeah, I'm no stranger to that one either - it's one of the more stable and fundamentally sound biotechs. In fact we've talked about it in this very thread a few months ago.
I sold off half of my ANW when that announcement came out earlier in the week about them issuing those notes (which dropped the price a good 15% or so) - I'd already made right at triple digits YTD with it. It's not something I have a huge amount of $ in anyway. I'm big on energy stocks these days for many reasons, but I do spread the risk out among a number of different companies - particularly with the more speculative companies.
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