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It means SHORT THE PISS out of the candidates to be dropped BEFORE 4000 mutual funds have to sell the dumpees no longer in the index. A Canadian trading account will allow initiating a short position on a stock at ONE DOLLAR and above, as opposed to FIVE dollars in the U.S. A very large advantage for shorting total CRAP!

 

From the article at Yosh' link:

 

Tech names that will likely be deleted from the index include Applied Micro Circuits (AMCC), Atmel Corp. (ATML), Brocade Communications (BRCD), Gemstar-TV Guide (GMSTE), and i2 Technologies (ITWO), the firm said.

 

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AMCC barely made it over $5 for fresh retail shorts. Golf clap to those who slammed it at that point.

 

 

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ATML: This little piggy didn't fly high enough for Joe Retail to even think about it.

 

 

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BRCD: This little piggy made it up into the Killing Fields, and has now descended into the netherland where Joe Retail short is now out of this game. Golf clap, again, to anyone who slammed this POS while it was over $5

 

 

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GMSTE: Another little piggy that didn't have the wings for Joe Retail to even get in the game.

 

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ITWO: Well, if you DO have the ability to short this thing at ONE dollar, you better short it quick because it's going, going going.......

 

 

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Yes, there are some interesting puts on the first four candidates, amazingly enough. Usually I like puts for real high flyers who can lose 20 points in a good bear 10-13 week cycle decline. Options are fairly new to me and much is yet to be learned. But some of these puts are cheap. For the index dumping play January would be the month to purchase and those are still a little expensive. Let the Decembers expire and hope for a post scam week upswing till year end and grab some January puts much cheaper, if any blood still flows through these dogs veins at all by then.

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Goldmember,

 

Be careful with options. To quote my father "with options you not only have to be correct about market direction, you have to be correct about timing as well". Plus you have to contend with brokerages manipulating the averages against you.

 

As an example, Bernie Schaeffer is often correct about market direction but still does very poorly in his Timer Digest portfolio.

 

Still, for this type of play they may be the only action we can get.

 

SB

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Yes, Bob, options are a two front war, BUT in this case time and direction are a given! Massive dumping by 4000 mutual funds is virtually assured if these wingless piglets get tossed. Look out below! Index reshuffling is one of the more dependable money makers. Another way to play it is to buy these piglets replacements as 4000 mutual funds will be forced to buy the replacements. All that fund buying will do wonders for a stock's price. If that coincides with a cycle up phase, WHOOOOWWWEEEE! RUN PIGGY RUN!!!

 

Then SHORT the CRAP out of 'em when the 10-13 week cycle starts pointing down. Ride the replacements up, take profit, SLAM 'em HARD for the ride down!

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Good find! Lots of stuff to wade through there!

 

The rebalancing is likely to take place at the

close of trading on Dec. 20, Salomon said. At that level, the

Nasdaq 100 will have come almost full circle from its 54

percent tech weighting in 1990 -- a year of recession, a

buildup to U.S. war in the Persian Gulf, and a time when the

decade's dot-com madness was just a gleam in a geek's eye.

 

Conveniently right on options expiration day for December! Selling will be after the occurence and buying the newcomers will also be after expiration. January is the month all right. Da Boyz may be way ahead of us on this one! Insiders will for sure be taking advantage of this! Rebalancing for insider personal profit is what it seems to amount to. Crooked bastards! An annual event no less!

 

What would the Nasquack 100 look like if rebalancing never occured? There may be a handful of originals out of the 100 left but not much else.

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Folks, you might also want to review an article on this subject that I posted to my forum on the old board quite a while back. ;)

 

Predicting the changes to the NDX isn't that difficult, really. ;)

 

BTW, besides the obvious idea to short early the ones that are likely to be removed (and buy the ones that are likely to be added), the above article also suggest an improvement regarding what to do once the change has occurred.

 

Regards,

Vesselin

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Anyone know how this rebalance act in the Qs is going to effect my rydex fund? Don't the stocks get pumped before they go in? Or might they get pumped after they go in :(

Yet another way we get screwed when shorting or buying puts on these indices. If they had to keep all the same stocks, every index would be much lower now. But, they throw out the dreck, bring in the stronger stocks, and the index stays up. Thanks for bringing this up, y'all, I'm going to think real hard about holding my QQQ shorts after Dec. 20 (assuming I hold them that long :grin: )

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