Monday, June 8, 2009

Bookkeeping: Closing DeVry (DV) Short

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You sometimes just have to laugh... within a day of my short of DeVry (DV) the company is added to the S&P 500. This caused a big gap up last Tuesday.... those are the type of things out of left field you can't account for.

That "gap" from the news announcement has now been filled late last week and I covered a good portion of the short into that for a very small loss. But now instead of sitting below the 50 day moving average, the stock is above it, and our original thesis has changed. $47 remains the line in the sand to the upside but this name was being used as a general hedge and at this point there are better candidates.

I am going to close out the remaining short for a 6% loss on about 1.2% of the portfolio; as stated above the majority was covered for about a 2% loss late last week.

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