markets are what they are...very unpredictiable. all we can ever do is stack the odds as best we can in our favor and enter our buy order. after that its up to the market gods. if we manage to profit on 60% of our trades tehn we make a nice living.
despite my bearish outlook in short term, i was a bit unhappy i inadvertantly upped my shorts to what i thought was 50% yesterday. i was looking for a more hedged position and when sectors are 1.5x and ndx shorts are -2x that equates to about 43% assets short and 57% long. also since my longs were obliterated teh day before instead of getting 50% short/long or hedged i ended up net short 5.6%. last night when i gathered my eod data i was less than thrilled. long story short, i too thought we were going up today. good luck on next trade. wheere does this put you on the YTD front?