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Today is the last day of the contest. Recently I made some last-minute tweaks. I sold some steel as it started to fall. Bought some coal (BTU and ACI) instead. UDN (Short the US dollar) had been inexplicably flat in recent weeks so I sold it and bought FXF (long the Swiss Franc). FXF rose along with all the other bear ETFs. I sold FXF plus some QID to get my percentage of ETFs down under 25% of the fund (max allowed). I bought more gold stocks and a bit more of some others I didn't have much of a stake in.
As of this moment my fund is up a bit, while the major indices are down.
During the course of the contest I've learned that I'm not very good (yet) at short- medium-term trading; however, for the first time these tweaks have actually paid off (so far).
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