I escaped 2008 with a small loss in my account (-5%).  Not bad, compared to how the indexes did (down 35-40%), but not great, given that I did trade some short positions (with puts) during the year.  On December 24, IBD published a table listing the performance of the best growth mutual funds since April, [...]

The cash secured puts I sold all expired unexercised, so I made money the past month.  I will write about this promising strategy in the future.  Meanwhile, the indexes are in up-trends, but still relatively weak.  This week we shall see if we can get more confirmation of the up-trend.  I will sell more puts [...]

The QQQQ short term up-trend is now in its 4th day.  However, there were only 4 new highs and 100 new lows in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Friday.  Still, 58% of the Nasdaq100 stocks closed above their 30 day averages. The GMI closed at 2 (of 6) and the more sensitive GMI-R is [...]