On 12.30.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, History, Investing, Musings memories and observations, Short Selling, Technology, hedging, by David Pinsen
Seeking Alpha published an article of mine touching on this earlier this week, but the tweet below and the chart that follows it illustrate the tl; dr version. Portfolio Armor was designed to help investors hedge, but other uses for it have emerged. One is as a warning flag for investors in securities with high [...]
On 09.28.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Short Selling, Speculations, hedging, by David Pinsen
- Gold: sold those GLD puts for a 101.5% gain on Tuesday; reversed polarity and bought a few calls. No strong opinion on gold, just thought I’d try this after seeing Tim Knight’s end-of-day video on Monday, which suggested GLD might have hit a support level at the bottom of a channel (though his video [...]
On 05.12.11, In Investing, Market Neutral Investing, Pairs trades, Short Selling, Short positions, by David Pinsen
This is a specialty chemical market neutral trade. More details at the link.
On 05.12.11, In Investing, Long positions, Market Neutral Investing, Pairs trades, Short Selling, Short positions, hedging, by David Pinsen
In a post here in December (“Market Neutral Investing in China’s Fast Food Industry“), I mentioned a market neutral trade I had entered going long Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM), the largest fast food operator in China, and shorting Country Style Cooking Restaurant Chain, Ltd. (CCSC), a start-up fast food chain in China. I figured the [...]
On 04.22.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Long positions, Market Neutral Investing, Pairs trades, Short Selling, Short positions, Technology, by David Pinsen
– Thursday was a good day for new Portfolio Armor subscriptions. It may also be a good time to consider hedging, since volatility (as measured by the VIX) is near its 2-year lows. That’s a point I made in a couple of Seeking Alpha articles this week, Hedging the Dow: An Update, and Another [...]
On 04.01.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Market Neutral Investing, Short Selling, Technology, by David Pinsen
Congratulations to BearishNews on winning the iPad 2 in the Short Screen message boards contest.
And thanks to everyone else who participated.
On 03.21.11, In Business and Entrepreneurship, Investing, Market Neutral Investing, Marketing, Short Selling, by David Pinsen
3.22.2011 Update: Bumping this as a reminder that we’re in the home stretch of this contest.
You can win an Apple iPad 2 by posting a comment on the Short Screen message boards between now and the end of March.
No purchase necessary — you just need to be a registered user of the message boards, and [...]
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