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I’m incredibly busy, but I’ll just say one thing about my one huge screw-up: Microsoft. See the arrow? That is when any kind of bearish pattern was wrecked. I bought puts yesterday based on a broken pattern, and I should have known better. My 36% loss is my reward. The good news is that my other 17 positions weren’t idiotic, and I just sold my short-term QQQ puts for a 50% profit. Anyway, shame on me. That put a damper on the day, although it’s going pretty damned great so far.
This is going to be pretty much a comment cleaner, since I awake this morning to nothing-has-really-changed in the markets. The /ES, after a quick spike Tuesday afternoon following the MSFT blowout, faded most of the night, although the lows seem to have been made about five hours ago. As of t his moment, all the stock futures are red, albeit just fractionally. Meh.
