Markets breaking higher; equity dragging

… or appear to be. S&P500 was up 14 points today in a fairly robust rally – except in precious metals stocks which really lagged again, to the point where I ended up buying back a tranche of SLW and adding a third of HGU. So I’m locked and loaded for gold and silver at the moment – but also starting to feel the headwinds on uptrends, as I’m now short three tranches of tech stocks (TYP) and just went short one of emerging markets (EDZ). The portfolio still has a leverage-adjusted 32% net-long bias, but will quickly start to give up ground if this rally continues unbroken to say 1400 S&P. But at least the correlations have broken down somewhat and I’m in a situation of being filled both on the long and short side depending on the vehicle being traded. That should smooth out the overall equity performance a little bit. Still up 2.2% on the month and the year, but’s it’s been fading the past couple of sessions.

TRADING 18-Jan-12 UPDATE 664
# Trade Qty Stock Symbol Price Acct
3 Sold 2.8% Cenovus Energy CVE @ $35.08 1
6 Sold 2.2% Drxn Real Est 3X ETF DRN @ $54.83 2
11 Bought 2.2% Drxn Tech 3x Sh ETF TYP @ $14.32 2
13 Bought 2.2% Drxn Em Mkt 3x Sh ETF EDZ @ $16.25 2
17 Bought 2.3% Silver Wheaton SLW @ $30.94 3
1 Bought 2.9% HBP Glb Gold 2X ETF HGU @ $12.28 1
8 Sold 2.2% Drxn Energy 3X ETF ERX @ $49.28 2
Qty   % is the portfolio weighting

X

EXTENSION   REVERSAL TRADING SYSTEM (ERTS)
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18-Jan-12
S&P500 1308.0 14.4 1.1%
TSX 12327.5 94.7 0.8%
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PORTFOLIO STATUS
Market JAN 12 YTD Incep
Canadian Dollar 0.9888 1.0% 1.0% -4.7%
S&P500 1308.0 4.0% 4.0% 1.6%
TSX 12327.5 3.1% 3.1% -8.0%
Weight
Portfolio % USD 35.8% 1.9% 1.9% 14.8%
Portfolio % CAD 64.2% 3.1% 3.1% -5.5%
FX
PORTFOLIO EQUITY CAD 2.2% 2.2% 2.4%
USD ERTS vs SP500 USD -2.2% -2.2% 13.2%
CAD ERTS vs TSX CAD 0.0% 0.0% 2.6%
ERTS vs SP500/TSX CAD/USD -0.8% -0.8% 6.4%
Inception is 30 Jun 11
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Portfolio Direction Long Short Net
Position 31.6% 8.5% 23.2% long
ETF Leverage-adjusted 57.3% 25.4% 31.9% long
CURRENT POSITIONS
STOCK/ETF SYM LAST Profit WGT
CASH 59.9%
Drxn Gold Sh 3X ETF NUGT $21.50 0.79% 5.3%
Potash Corp POT $45.99 0.73% 2.7%
HBP Glb Gold 2X ETF HGU $12.36 0.70% 8.7%
Drxn Real Est 3X ETF DRN $54.80 0.33% 0.7%
Silver Wheaton SLW $31.61 0.32% 2.3%
Cenovus Energy CVE $35.55 0.24% 3.1%
Cameco CCO closed 0.23% 0.0%
Drxn Energy 3X ETF ERX $50.21 0.21% 2.4%
Teck Corp TCK.B closed 0.19% 0.0%
Drxn Gold Sh 3X Sh ETF DUST closed 0.00% 0.0%
Drxn Tech 3x ETF TYH closed 0.00% 0.0%
Claymore BRIC ETF CBQ closed 0.00% 0.0%
Drxn Em Mkt 3x ETF EDC closed 0.00% 0.0%
Drxn Real Est 3X Sh ETF DRV closed 0.00% 0.0%
HBP Glb Gold 2X Sh ETF HGD closed 0.00% 0.0%
Drxn Energy 3X Sh ETF ERY closed 0.00% 0.0%
Drxn Em Mkt 3x Sh ETF EDZ $15.29 -0.14% 2.1%
EnCana Corp ECA $17.69 -0.36% 6.2%
Drxn Tech 3x Sh ETF TYP $13.84 -0.41% 6.4%

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