2 Ways This Market Could Go
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“Is the information inherently threatening, or are you
simply experiencing the effect of your own sate of mind reflected back at
you?” ~ Mark Douglas, Tra...
Jim Rogers on Markets, Economy, and China
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*$ $ $*
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*Not only is there social unrest in China, but expect to see more and
greater social unrest and riots in Europe and the USA.*
*Jim Rogers on M...
Monday Watch
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Weekend Headlines
Bloomberg:
- Merkel Rejects Debt Sharing as Obama Urges Europe Action. German
Chancellor Angela Merkel hardened her opposition to...
Sabrient Risers – 6/4/2012
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Top 5 Risers Stock Rating Analysis SWHC BUY Smith and Wesson Holding is
one of the top candidates projected to achieve both higher than previously
pr...
Rocket Comment Cleaner
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The latest Evil Plan is getting hammered with comments, so although you probably should be on SocialTrade like all the other cool kids, you could hang out he...
Special Guest Interview Today: Martin Pring
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*Time: 11:30am *
Today we will have one of the Premier* *Technical Analyst *Martin Pring* a
guest of Daytradingradio.com. I am looking forward to this sp...
Support in Sight
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With the futures pulling back again this evening we are starting to get to
a level on the NASDAQ where buyers should step in. Here’s a look at the
daily ch...
Sunday Night Futures
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The only release on Monday is Factory Orders at 10:00 AM. The consensus is
for a 0.1% increase in orders.
The focus will probably be on Europe again, altho...
Screencast: The Making of 3dfcc505dc
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It was all going so well. Until my MacBook began experiencing memory
issues. At around the 20 minute mark (which is close to the end), I lost
some video ex...
No Man's Land
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Going into this week, I was pretty neutral. The market was forming a bear
flag and I saw many stocks with bear flags, but I also sensed that a rally
wou...
Only A Fool
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Bruce Krasting – “On Shills, Technocrats, Politicians and the Sinking
Ship”: Three months ago I made fun of an ABC News report about the stock
market. The ...
Germany’s Third World War
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Supporters of Germany’s moral high ground say “why should the hard working,
industrious, Germans pay for the sloth of its neighbors?” Is it really that
sim...
How Virii Go Viral
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“Contagion,” a film by Warner Bros. and Participant Media, looks at the
consequences of an infectious virus that is creating havoc in the human
population....
Parts & Labor covers Kanye West
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Parts & Labor covers Kanye West Filed under: Trading Tagged: av club,
avclub, Covers, Great Music, kanye west, MissTrade, parts & labor
Long Term Update – Continued
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Friday I indulged in a more comprehensive review of what to expect long
term across our favorite trifecta – i.e. the equities, currency, and
commodities si...
Weekend Charting 2 June 2012 : FX Charts
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Here are some charts with levels I am watching for the coming week. $GBPJPY
H1 $CADJPY H4 $GBPAUD H1 $AUDUSD H1 $EURAUD H1 $EURJPY H4 $USDCHF H1 Good
tradi...
Sunday links: aim for the middle
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Quote of the day David Merkel, “So aim for the middle: take moderate risks,
diversify, be realistic, and adjust your portfolio slowly as conditions
change....
What is an ETF? — Part 14: Target-Date Funds
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Exchange traded funds continue to increase in number and popularity,
growing to one of the most commonly traded securities on the stock exchange
as both in...
Works if Small, Fails if Large
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The Wall Street Journal had an article on risk control that had the
attitude of “here are some silver bullets.” Ugh. When will journalists
learn that the...
Japanese Squat Toilets May Increase Stock Price
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A large shareholder of stock in Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NMR) has come up
with an interesting and unusual shareholder proposal. He is suggesting that
all the...
Japanese Squat Toilets May Increase Stock Price
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A large shareholder of stock in Nomura Holdings, Inc. (NMR) has come up
with an interesting and unusual shareholder proposal. He is suggesting that
all the...
Chinese Censorship in Action
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The video below was made by Google to illustrate Chinese censorship. Why
would Beijing be censoring McDonalds searches? Beats me. Maybe Ronald
McDonald nee...
What Does a Market Top Look Like…The Aftermath
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The markets are very sick at the moment. Our mood and confidence is shaken
and stirred. The math experts are out in full force discussing [...]
What Does a Market Top Look Like…The Aftermath
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The markets are very sick at the moment. Our mood and confidence is shaken
and stirred. The math experts are out in full force discussing [...]
Tough Week for World Markets Ends A Worse Month
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Tough Week for World Markets. Taking a global view, many markets around the world went down last week. Notably, Spain's IBEX was down 5%, Germany's DAX was d...
Dollar Bill On Floor Sends Wall Street Into Frenzy
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From The Onion: NEW YORK—Wall Street investors experienced a sudden surge
in optimism Tuesday when, after six tumultuous weeks that saw record drops
in the...
June Position
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Glad May is over but summer is not going to be easy either.
When going fishing, there's always a chance of catching nothing, catching a
boot, and catching ...
Weekend Reading 6/2/12
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“You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute
you’re up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don’t go
to colle...
Twitter Digest: 2012-06-01
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I get it, but this still seems … wrong: A Ferrari crossover vehicle –
http://t.co/p0hdaY5M -> Wondrous lunacy of CA municipal finance: Cutting
costs on mun...
Mastery Rewind: Fun with Weapons Style
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[image: Southpark - Fun with Weapons]
Mastery rewinds the worst week of trading in 2012 -- South Park Style.
Terrible week with the Dow Jones Index era...
To QE3 or not to QE3?
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To QE3 or not to QE3? That is the question... $$
Some of the talk this afternoon in the news is that the Fed must inject
some more stimulus into the syste...
134 stocks closed at all-time lows
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“It is one of the great paradoxes of the stock market that what seems too
high usually goes higher and what seems too low usually goes lower.” –
William O’...
6 Trade Setups To Watch next week
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( click to enlarge )
Duke Energy Corporation (NYSE:DUK) Stock price blasted up and out of its
week trading range, closing the day near the highs. From a...
Closing Numbers - 6/1/12
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Bloodbath today in the stock market. All indexes suffered greatly due to
today's jobs report. Here are the numbers:
*DOW* - Down 275 to 12,119
*NASDAQ* ...
Best Advice I Ever Got: Timothy Sykes | Inc.com
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Time is money. As someone who talks openly about where Im putting my own
money daily, I am inundated with emails that ask questions and request
meetings–so...
Stocks tank on horrible job report
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May’s unemployment numbers added only 69,000 jobs to the economy, a number
far much than the 125,000 jobs needed just keep the unemployment rate up.
Hence ...
Giddyap
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__________________________ What’s that sound, you say? Those of you with
extremely sensitive hearing probably heard a dog whistle this morning,
after the a...
Cash Is A Position : It Can Save Your Butt!
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Hi Guys,
Markets have made a strong run to start 2012 and now risking to give up the
entire yearly gains. As i write this, the market is getting quite OV...
SPY : Kaboom !
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The SPY made some swings within the triangle that I had defined in this previous post ! Now it has broken below it... expect some serious meltdown in the nea...
Panics are always good...
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We are getting a slight hint of panicky open today. I would like to see
more panic. The kind of panic which leads to participants screaming get me
out at ...
Guesstimates on June 1, 2012
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*June S&P E-mini Futures: *Today's range estimate is 1275-1290. The October
2011 top at 1289.25 is strong support. I think a base building period is
nearl...
Denver Traders…
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If you’re a Denver trader or are located in the surrounding area, make
plans Friday June 8th or Saturday June 9th to see me present live in
conjunction wit...
Pre-Market/Post Market: 6-1-12
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To get an e-mail alert when a new pre-market report is posted please send
an e-mail to support (support (at) livevol.com) with "Pre-market" in the
subject ...
A trade from Chris...
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*"CIEN, 15-minute chart, Fibonacci lines over the opening range. Price
chopped around the retracement zone and then formed a nice hammer on top of
it at 11...
Watch List For 6/01/2012
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FN Quick trade over 11.90 for bottom base break. HGT No idea what going on
with this company but watching over 6.85 for a quick trade. IART Watching
36 ...
Wed 5_30
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Two setups in the SPY. The first I traded, the second I missed.
The first setup was in anticipation of 3a criteria (price moving higher to
test resistanc...
Storytelling our energy future
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For SmartPlanet this week, I mused on the stories we tell about our energy
future, and explored some behavioral and cognitive research about how we
think, ...
FAST: Revisited
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When I get disgusted about the market, frustrated that everything seems to
be moving so slowly and despondent when charts fail to deliver as they
promised,...
FTD Arrives on Moderate Breadth
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In the 8/24/11 blog I looked at the impact of breadth on Follow Through
Days (FTD). To compare breadth across market regimes, instead of using
absolute bre...
US Markets wear the Heavy Crown- SP 500 Update
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Heavy is the head that wears the crown- Status of the US Stock Market-
David Banister May 26 2012 The US market is one of very few trying to
maintain a lon...
Corrections Take Time, Be Patient
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As I surf the twitter and blog world tonight, I see an unusual number of
people claiming a market bottom based on “historical readings” among many
of the s...
In Defense of Eduardo Saverin
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On this blog and on twitter, I think I have a history of taking
less-popular viewpoints (including taking a less-than-fawning views on Warren
Buffett rec...
S&P500 Index – Some fib levels since 2009
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Seems we are stairstepping the fibs here. First the 61.8, then the 50. I
think the 38.2 at 122.50 is next. Look, we’ve done it before. Stairstepping
the fibs:
Market is Oversold
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The Piker Indicator flashed oversold/Go Long yesterday. Below is a chart
of the last 4 oversold/Go Long signals- the signal is the White Candle
Stick. A...
the FARMER and the $DELL ~ Earnings Play
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BOTTOM of the BOLLINGER BANDS
EARNINGS ROULETTE: JUNE 16 CALLS @ .47 cents! EPS guess? ... May 22nd (AH)
*the FARMER*: Long $POT
below the old BHP ...
Technical Picture - Short Term Correction
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From the weekly SPX chart above we note that the RSI usually signals
negative divergence to higher prices and positive divergence to lower
prices ahead of...
First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR): Merrill upgrades to Buy
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Merrill Lynch is upgrading First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) to Buy from
Underperform:
Upgrading to Buy – price objective is $30
We’re upgrading First Solar from U...
Using Yahoo Free EOD Data
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Yahoo is an excellent source for free End of Day (EOD) data but it comes
with some issues from time to time.
Since Yahoo is not providing a true data servi...
April’s SPX Range
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As a premium seller I’ve already been in the month of April for two weeks.
One of the data points I track is the range for both the option cycle and
the mo...
XOM – waiting, waiting
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A weekly chart of XOM. A clear resistance line at the highs of 2011 and
2012, tested already numerous times without really breaking it. Get ready
to hop on...
Robert Green on taxes for traders (70 minute video)
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This 70-minute video presentation was recorded in December by Robert Green,
CPA and founder of the CPA firm that I use to prepare my taxes. He address
new ...
Momentum Trader Report: 03/06/12
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The market had its first real down day of the year, with the indexes
closing down around -1.5%, and it looks like lower prices may be ahead.
Personally, I...
UNG - Downside Target
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UNG was sharply lower today down well over 4% on heavy volume. If you look
at the above chart you will notice that UNG has broken down from a
descending tr...
Magnum Hunter Resources (MHR) - Utica Shale
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By Tim - http://oilshalegas.com
Utica Shale News - Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation (NYSE: MHR) provides
an update on the *Utica Shale* located in Noble...
New Site Coming Soon
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Sorry for the lack of recent updates. A totally new site design will be
coming soon, and once it's up I will be posting on a more regular basis.
Stay tun...
2011 Review
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2009 and 2010 were good for most trend followers(bulls) who bought and
held tight onto their positions. 2011 was a totally different story. It
was bas...
Market Montage Officially Launches Tomorrow
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Dear readers,
After a long period of introspection (nearly 3 minutes) I've decided to
follow the ideology of the boxing world and come out of retirement.
...
Trade: GS
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I went long GS on the breakout of the moving average. Notice the bottoming "W" pattern and the positive volume that has has developed within the pattern. M...
test848
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Going to be a cold weekend. View here. Going to be a cold weekend. View
here. Going to be a cold weekend. View here. Going to be a cold weekend.
View he...
Market Update – Looks Ready to Fall
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Surprising earning results from Apple and Yahoo yesterday. Yahoo’s profits
fell YOY but the stock headed up 5%. Apple did not meet forecast but
profits wer...
Stock Market Trading Exposed
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Stock market trading has become much more available to the average joe over
the last couple of decades, and with it, much more information is
available. Bu...
A Trader’s Prayer
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“Our Uncle Ben, Who Art in Wyoming… “Ahh, okay, I’m gonna level with you,
Uncle B. My wife’s the one with the Lord & Taylor account, if you know what
I’m s...
Additional ...
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To complete the previous post, it may be a good idea to show the reasoning
behind our exit around 1200.
The following is my projection from August 12, 20...
Cheesy Giveaway : Golden Age Cheese
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With the stock market in turmoil. Nothing sounds better than some comfort
food... Enter to win the Cheese of the Month club: Cheesy Giveaway : Golden
Age C...
GameStop GME Is a Good Short
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I believe GameStop GME is a good short. Fundamentally they are a brick and
mortar retailer competing against online digital downloading. Download
s...
Euro update July 29, 2011
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Euro printed a higher relative volume hammer-like candle. This suggests
that the last 2 days were a retracement and it is ready to move higher. If
it break...
new site
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People have been asking me, so I think the link in my earlier post was not
obvious enough: I’m blogging at http://richardwesleytodd.blogspot.com now.
So, i...
Heartbroken
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As many of you know, health issues have forced me to the sidelines for the
past month. I first want to thank all of you for your kind words and well
wishes...
Stocks Begin Tumble: Reversal Underway (NYSE: SPY)
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Stock Market Crash of 2011: Quick Move or Slow Pain? Whether an index drops
10% overnight, or drops 20% over the course of a couple months, it
nonetheless ...
A Prayer for Osama bin Laden
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By Joe Donatelli and Steve Mazzucchi Osama bin Laden, may you rot in hell.
May your skin burn in an eternal lake of fire. May your soul be enveloped
in co...
Back to blogging
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I've had a hard go of it over the last 2 years. I changed my trading style from stock screening and longer term swing trading, to day trading futures. I we...
$EURUSD: 6-hour Chart
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The technical setup is tantalizing…especially with all of the bullish
commentary by ECB officials. Only a matter of time until the $EURUSD
collapses…comple...
Hiatus End Date in Sight
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Regular postings to this blog will be resumed on April 15th. Occasional
updates will continue to be made to the TTS Fear Index and any buy/sell
signals wil...
Affiliate Marketing Online Advertising
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How can an Affiliate Market Online?
Are you and affiliate and you would like to know "how can an affiliate
market online?" The good news is that there a...
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What the Market Wants: Stocks over Bonds, Small Caps over Large
*by Sabrient - February 14th, 2011 10:15 pm*
*Courtesy of David Brown, Chief Market Strateg...
My Blog Has Moved to the Stocktwits Network
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Thank you for visiting. My Blog has moved to downtowntrader.com and is now a part of the Stocktwits Network. We have moved all of our content into the archiv...
Moving…Again
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I’ve decided to move my blogging back over to my original Blogger site and
maintain one blog rather than my two WordPress blogs (as well as avoiding
WordPr...
Investment Outlook for 2011 – Equities vs Bonds
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The more things change, the more eerily familiar they seem to be. It has
been months since I updated the blog; ignoring the daily drivel proves
useful as t...
Best Stocks For 2011: Let the Money “Stream” to You
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Remember those days? Yeah I’m sure you do. Remember digging through your
5 foot tall stereo cabinet looking for “Weekend At Bernies”? Those days
are gon...
A Large Number of Compression Breakouts
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can be found by clicking here: Over 15 great setups. I didn’t even have
time to look at all the BuyPoints! Remember, not all the generated ideas
are great ...
Please Use Zerohedge.org
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As zerohedge.com is currently experiencing technical issues, please use the
following website for all the latest updates: www.zerohedge.org while we
resolv...
MORNING LINKS
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Futures were ramping last night on the heels of the news of the Irish
accepting a bailout to the tune of 100B Euros- and the EURO was smoking and
the doll...
Update - looking to 2011
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Hello Blogosphere!
Things are going well, though I have not made the progress in some personal
arenas that I intended during my trading hiatus in 2010.
M...
To Young Guns!
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To My Loyal TMO Readers,
I wanted to first thank you for being readers who have transitioned from
equities to options, from options back to equities, and f...
YOUNG GUNS TRADING
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I'm proud to announce my new blog is now in full service and is looking
GREAT - come join myself and the other traders at *Young Guns Trading*
Long-Term Chart of $SPX - Part III
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I have been looking at some longer term charts again, now that my target on
my previous post has been met.
The first chart is a weekly chart of the $SPX an...
Change of Site Going Forward
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All - I have moved my postings to Worden going forward starting today.
Below is a link to the new site. It is a slick new format and I hope you
like it. Se...
Super glad
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I am super glad nobody missed me. There were many querries while this blog
was open. Most of them were if I was aping tickerville, tickerguy,
tickersense.....
Another Big ARES Winner: ATML
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Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) also took off today, rising 16% after
posting revenue that surpassed analyst expectations. We’ve gained 21.3% in
ATML sin...
George Soros investments
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Last time we provided insight in current Jim Rogers portfolio and investing
strategy. Today let's review where another investment guru, George Soros,
sees ...
Why Do All Good Things Come To An End
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When I first started trading I really was illprepared. I had done my
research via stockcharts.com and learned patterns etc, but what I failed to
realize,...
On Vacation
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So...no posts lately and now I am on vacation. I just found this cool
little addition for my blog...Feed My Fish. Not much to it, but really kind
of fun......
Gone like a freight train
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All, I apologize for not posting, but this spring has been amazingly busy.
I literally eat dinner every night after 9 pm., the minute I walk in the
door. S...
Monster Stock Trader: The Interview
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Monster Stock Trader is the moniker of this trader who uses the CAN-SLIM
method to find fundamentally sound companies to trade. He then uses
technical anal...
Another Crazy OPX Friday TGIF
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Well all I can say is this hs been one crazy week! I am so glad it’s Friday
I can’t even tell you…..:-) I am going to make this short and sweet, as I
expec...
Market Stress Indicated in this Chart
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The bull-vs-bear chart shows a spike of the bearish indicators. I think
there is a strong indication of market reversal. A similar pattern was
observed l...
Farewell Post
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Don't worry, I am not leaving the internet forever. I am changing locales. You can now find me, under the same name chessNwine, over at iBankCoin.com aka the...
My Final Post on iBankCoin
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To my readers here at iBankCoin.com: THANK YOU guys so much for supporting
me here ever since I started writing at iBankCoin.com back in 2008. As you
may k...
An Update
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About six months ago it became apparent, to the few readers of this site, that I had stopped blogging. The reason for this is that in September I had decided...
THE BEAT GOES ON
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lada dada dee
[Mar 30, 2010 6:43:33 AM PDT] *Muddy:* watch VIFL. last pre hit, on 2.50
Hit hod of 4.50!
A few minutes after the open, one on our watchlist...
ANOTHER CONFIRMATION MET
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This morning the miners met one more confirmation that needed to happen.
The point and figure chart has now turned bullish.
That's just one more tally tha...
Monthly Strategy Update
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I plan on doing updates at the end of each month on how the strategy is
performing and some thoughts about what is working and ways to improve it.
After a ...
Ichimoku Analysis: Market still has room to fall
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The market was down again today. However, this time I sold my DXD for some
more profit. The market still has the potential to continue this decline,
but ...
Ready for the Big Game?
-
Most of us will watch the Super Bowl this weekend, and marvel at the
offensive machines run by Manning and Brees. Are they that much more
talented than th...
Movie Review: Antichrist (2009)
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“I am the best film director in the world,” proclaimed Lars von Trier
rather brashly following the debut of his newest film at the Cannes Film
Festival. ...
Low Volume Melt Up
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*FN:* On the way down there is volume. On the way up, there is less...
waaaay less (especially for this time of the year).
Can you say algos?
So what does...
That's All Folks...
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Loyal Reader of MooseJaw Jabber: Technical Trading,
Today is one of mixed emotions, as MJTT has finally grown enough to allow
me to branch off to bigger an...
ADS Line Signal update
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Note that this 1 Hour ADS line Buy signal has occured with the Daily ADS
line still below zero, so this may be just a short counter trend signal or
a just ...
Google Wave
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Anyone of you fine readers happen to get an invite for Google Wave? I would
be forever in your debt should you send me an invite as well :)
Thanks!!!
My New Home
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I’ve got some great news. I have been invited to join some super fantastic
Traders and Market experts at my favorite site, FINZ.TV Posse Trade Journal
Plea...
A New Home For Dasan
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A New Home For Dasan: http://www.davianletter.com/blog
I’ve been taking notes of my daily market observations while I was at
Merrill Lynch since 1993. I...
Gold bugs about to get Squashed
-
Anyone who follows me knows that since the beginning of the year, I have
been saying - "Sell your Gold, it's dead money". Even Dentists know better,
and do...
Wasn't MSFT Buying Into YHOO Search?
-
How quickly do things change - now you have YHOO buying into MSFT search
technology and some revenue sharing to give MSFT access to the YHOO
network.
T...
Mixed signals on the finance front
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Inflation fell in May to its lowest since the beginning of 2008, but
remained higher than most economists expected. The smaller than expected
fall in consu...
Members only chat
-
EminiAddict.com now has a members only chat. It will temporarily be housed
at http://eminiaddict.net/ until all changes have taken effect. Emails have
been...
Consumer Electronics
-
I might be alone in this thinking, but I think it is a great time to open a
consumer electronics retailer.
- Commercial vacancies are huge and would l...
Change is Afoot
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I had planned to take at least another week to do this, but I'm plunging
ahead anyway.
Slope of Hope is moving to a different blog platform. There are ma...
SEC Charges 8
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Didn’t believe me in my FREE Penny Stock eBook when I talked about penny
stock manipulation? Here’s some pretty hardcore evidence of the penny stock
manipu...
Full Time
-
I'd put my overall trading today in the crap pile. But there were moments
when things were good and my skills showed some development. I made $20 in
my acc...
5/15 Day/swingtrades
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*From this morning: Just a quick update...with the news on TARP money, I'm
adding the insurers to the watchlist today. There are quite a few strike
prices ...
The Path of Least Resistance
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What I’m getting ready to discuss pertains primarily to trades that are
held for a period longer than 2 days. What directional bias should I have
in any gi...
The RO Report, "Last One" Edition
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I've written this blog for over 2 years amidst the worst period in my
10-year trading career. It has been a difficult time for me personally but
writing ha...
