Archive for June, 2011

• Three Risk Spreads To Watch: The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS), Bank of America Corporation (BAC), Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (FCX)
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 30th, 2011 at 7:03 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits If this rally is going to stick the spreads below need to continue to move higher.  $GS and $BAC are deeply oversold [...]

• Trade Idea: General Electric Co. (GE) VS United Technologies Corp. (UTX)
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 29th, 2011 at 7:18 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits The trade idea is long $GE and short $UTX.  This is a pure technical setup.  I’d plan on seeing the spread trade [...]

• Tough To Get Excited About Summer Trading
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 28th, 2011 at 10:02 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits I live for the markets.  I love the challenge of trading and competing everyday.  That said, I cannot get excited about trading [...]

• FROM THE ARCHIVES: Market Direction and Sentiment Fetishists
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 20th, 2011 at 10:27 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits I’m on vacation this week, but I wanted to dig up a piece from the last bottoming period.  This classic is from [...]

• Update: BRE Properties Inc. (BRE) VS Avalonbay Communities Inc. (AVB)
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 20th, 2011 at 11:46 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits The long $BRE short $AVB spread had a nice pop since I mentioned it as an idea last week.  I’ve taken my [...]

• The Bull Market Is Dead, Long Live The Bull Market
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 16th, 2011 at 11:03 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Are you comfortably bearish yet?  Are you cozy and smug about it?  Are you peppering your dinner party conversation with words like [...]

• Trade Idea: BRE Properties Inc. (BRE) VS Avalonbay Communities Inc. (AVB)
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 15th, 2011 at 11:38 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits Here’s a quick technical trade idea for a couple tightly correlated residential REITs as a pairs trade: long $BRE BRE Properties Inc. [...]

• Sector Spotlight: Six Weeks And Counting, Utilities Select Sector SPDR (XLU), Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF)
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 12th, 2011 at 1:48 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits This past week was all about the bounce that never came.  A lot of traders, including myself, were looking for some elasticity [...]

• Technology Select Sector SPDR (XLK) VS SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) Ratio
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 11th, 2011 at 3:59 pm, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits People have been chattering on about how we’re in a new tech bubble.  I don’t know, and I don’t really care.  You [...]

• Update: Ensco plc (ESV) VS Halliburton Company (HAL)
  Posted by DynamicHedge on June 10th, 2011 at 12:30 am, Comments: 0

  Share on StockTwits I threw out a couple trading ideas last week while I was too busy to blog anything meaningful.  So here’s my quick [...]