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Joshua Hayes

The Big Wave Trading Portfolio model remains under a SELL signal generated on 5/4/12. The SELL signal was very strong but four false signals (3 SELL, 1 BUY–first time that has happened in the model since 1979) left us gun shy from going 100% all-in on the most recent strong signal. While this is unfortunate in the IRA/Retirement account (since it can not go short), as we are under-investing in inverse ETFs that are doing very well for us, it has worked itself out in the Aggressive/Margin account. Tons of stocks have produced very strong short signals for us since 5/4/12 and almost everything we are touching is working immediately. A far departure from the past two months. We realize that the market is very oversold here and thus it would be very dangerous pushing new short positions. If the market does not get a bounce on continues to selloff, we will continue to reduce the exposure in each new short signal that we receive. If the market can manage a bounce here and the charts stay broken with no real sign of accumulation in the market or leading stocks, we will look to fully press our bets on the inverse ETFs in the Retirement account and on shorts/ETFs in the Margin account. If the market does bounce, we get some good accumulation in leading stocks, and our current shorts start giving us cover signals, we will be more than happy to get exposure to the long side. However, we believe the fact that Facebook came public in such an environment and the fact that insiders sold over 50% of their personal holdings on the first day tells us everything we need to know as it relates to the 3-year bull”shit” market. I will redirect everyone to this post on April 23rd that I wrote for Seeking Alpha. It was denied publication because of its “technical analysis” content. That sure was unfortunate for their readers as the level of bullish articles that day was extremely intense. Aloha and have a great weekend.

Current Top Holdings – Percent Return – Date of Signal

BVSN short – 69% – 3/16/12
AVD – 65% – 1/10/12
UVXY – 63% – 5/9/12
LQDT – 62% – 2/1/12
SINO short – 37% – 4/12/12
MNST – 36% – 1/13/12
VRNM short – 34% – 4/10/12
PRXI short – 28% – 3/30/12
WZE short – 25% – 4/10/12

May 19, 2012

11:32 PM

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Joshua Hayes

I went long CERN on Friday. CTSH and CRM are back on watch for a breakout buy. INFA is off the table for now.

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“When you are starting out, it is very important not to get too far behind because it is very difficult to fight back. Most traders have a tendency to take risks that are too large at the beginning” – Gary Bielfeldt

“Professional traders manage their trading to assume that each trade may be a loser.” -Peter Brandt

The Big Wave Trading Portfolio is currently under a BUY signal after having to suffer through three straight SELL signals that were followed by cutting losses and returning to NEUTRAL. The current BUY signal is mainly being produced by the mere fact that the market will not sell off following all of the recent distribution days and is back above its 50 day moving average. Volume on the upside continues to be well below what we would consider a strong BUY signal and it remains a BUY signal basically due to CANSLIM quality stocks. A lot of CANSLIM quality stocks have built or continue to build quality bases. On the day of the BUY signal on Thursday tons of CANSLIM stocks broke out of very constructive base patterns. Despite these very high quality long signals, Big Wave Trading is not investing up to the capacity that it should be due to the recent false signals in our model which in the past has not produced three false signals in a row in such a short amount of time. This is 100% a function of the current market and not our model as 1976-1978 did not even produce this kind of low volume misinformation. Clearly, price is the only thing that matters when stocks are trending up. Volume is irrelevant in a QE environment. At the same time, even if the chart is in perfect order, our portfolios will not tolerate losses and pair back anywhere from 10% to 25% of our positions in stocks if they show losses. Overall, it appears these breakouts are stronger than the breakouts in January as the current consolidation period has given many of these stocks base-on-base patterns or ascending base patterns. The bases these high quality stocks broke out of in January while sound came from the very volatile July-December period in the market thus making some of them suspect. This recent consolidation has tightened many of these charts up. While saying all of this, we are completely aware that the whipsaw market may throw us back into a NEUTRAL signal at any moment. Also, we realize that we are deep into our third year of a QE led uptrend and it remains in our view that we are near the end of this big bull market rather than a start of a brand new bull market. However, we do not trade off of our opinions. We trade off of real price signals based on 130 years of stock market history and 200 years of futures history. We may think we are near a top but if the market wants to move higher and we have signals we are taking them long.

Top Current Holdings – Percent Gain (non-margin) – Date of Signal

SWHC – 84% – 1/3/12
AVD – 71% – 1/10/12
LQDT – 53% – 2/1/12
BVSN short – 48% – 3/19/12
EPAM – 33% – 3/1/12
CPWM – 30% – 3/13/12
MNST – 30% – 1/13/12
SUNH- 27% – 3/9/12
PRXI short – 22% – 3/30/12

Apr. 30, 2012

4:52 AM

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