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Hurricane Gustav Trade. Gustav Juices Up The XLE Trade
My XLE trade is panning out quite well now with the threat to the oil refineries and drillers from hurricane Gustav. If you’re not already in I wouldn’t jump in right now. I’m going to let this trade run until it starts to show some weakness. At this point, the responsible thing to do is move your stop up to previous support to lock in some gains in case the trade falls aparts on us.
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