DDOG - You have to neutralize positions when they're going bad - Virtus' CMS

2023-10-20 15:19:09 ET

You have to neutralize positions when stocks are going bad, said Joe Terranova, chief market strategist for Virtus Investment Partners.

He has sold his Invesco QQQ Trust ( NASDAQ: QQQ ) position after the profit and loss was “going the wrong way on this trade and I had to neutralize it.”

In a CNBC interview on Friday, he said he hasn’t turned bearish on the remainder of the year, and that he still believes that the fourth quarter rally will come from technology ( XLK ) and communications services ( XLC ).

“Those are the only sectors that are up, so far, quarter to date,” he said.

Terranova said he bought ( QQQ ) when it was at around the $368 range, after selling out of iShares Biotechnology ETF ( IBB ), Datadog ( DDOG ), Bank of America ( BAC ), Morgan Stanley ( MS ).

He ran into a problem, he said, when “I tried to defend that position at a critical point in the market,” when there was a new dynamic from the Federal Reserve holding their rates for longer.

“I play the Futures market from the long side,” he said, “so, that didn’t work out pretty well.”

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