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Today I think is a very good day for me.  I have a smaller trading acct that I do most of my active stuff in, as well as shorting.  In November 2007 it got down to 50% of the opening value.  That was pretty grim and discouraging.  

But this has been a very tough market.  So I kept trying.  And slowly things started to turn around.  I had a few longs start to work, but got a few shorts going.  One of them ESI worked very nicely.  Since then I've tried a long or two, but even the beautiful ones got killed.  But I kept adding more shorts.  Now I have 3 longs and 7 shorts.  

This was tough through the "santa claus rally", but only one short got covered.  And now my portfolio has really been rewarded by this week.  As of today, my account is now only down 40% from opening.  Or, a 20% gain from where it was.  I am very pleased with that and encouraged.  This is the best I have done since I started trading.