Special Report: Surveying the Dividend ETF Landscape
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As more people shift assets around to invest toward their golden years,
income-seeking investors are finding less opportunities in traditional
fixed-income...
Morning News: June 1, 2012
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Euro-Area Unemployment Reaches Record 11%, Led by Spain A Terse Warning for
Euro States: Do Something Now Merkel’s Isolation Deepens as Draghi
Criticizes S...
Futures
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Futures are deep in the red this morning.
The big factor today will be the unemployment report. The expectations are
157,000 jobs created, and the rate r...
Friday 7atSeven: econo-extravaganza
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Here are seven (or so) links at 7AM Eastern. We will see you later with
the daily linkfest. Good luck out there. Treasury yields are [...]
5 and 7 Year Treasury Yields Dropping Like Rocks
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The chart below shows five different treasuries yields. Notice that five and seven year yields are falling the fastest as money moves into medium-term treasu...
Twitter Digest: 2012-05-31
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"The citizens in their cars looked at the porcupines, thinking: What is
wonderful? Are porcupines wonderful?… Are they what I need?" -> Vid for
Black Keys ...
Chart to watch
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We’ve asked our friend Jim Robinson of profittrading.com to provide his
expert analysis of Stocks to our readers. Each week he’ll be be analyzing a
differe...
Nestle (NSRGY): A Global Dividend Powerhouse
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Nestlé S.A. (NSRGY), together with its subsidiaries, provides nutrition,
health, and wellness products worldwide. This international dividend
achiever h...
Mortgage Rates at Record Lows
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The 15-yr mortgage rate is at 2.97 and 30-yr at 3.75%. $$
Amazing.
We're at the point where everyone has been saying interest rates can't fall
any fur...
Friday Watch
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Evening Headlines
Bloomberg:
- Spain's Guindos: Future of Euro at Stake. Spanish Economy Minister
Luis de Guindos said the future of the euro is at ...
Sabrient Risers – 6/1/2012
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Top 5 Risers Stock Rating Analysis SWHC BUY Many analysts are expecting
higher than previously expected long term growth from Smith and Wesson
Holdin...
The First-Mover Advantage: Bane or Benefit?
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In economic game theory, the “first-mover advantage” is a controversial
topic. Last month over at Forbes.com, there was an interesting article by
Tim Worst...
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...
U.S. Dollar Is Not Overbought
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Few charts of interest: NASDAQ HIGH LOW INDEX – 60 EMA is firmly pointed
down. Very bearish for markets. Dow Jones Transports – bear flag spotting
CRM – a ...
A DANGEROUS GAME
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My right hand men, ChessnWine and Ragin Cajun (happy b-day), nailed this
move from the beginning, unlike me. They saw the news, got scared, obeyed
their ru...
May Contest Winners and Look Ahead
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The June contest starts on Friday with four questions (see below). For the
economic question contest in May, the leaders were (Congratulations all!):
1) Bi...
End of a Lousy Month
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I rolled some of my futures contract charts, specifically the gold contract
to August (GCQ2), 30-year bonds and 10-year notes to the September contract
(ZB...
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 ...
Please Go Higher Tomorrow Market
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Please Go Higher Tomorrow Market
I want the market to go higher, my charts say its possible, but as I posted
earlier in the week all signals have been su...
87 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’...
Trade Setups To Watch on Friday , June 01
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( click to enlarge )
Shares of Zynga Inc (NASDAQ:ZNGA) seems to have bottomed out and is ready
for a decent bounce to 6.75-7 levels where is faces some re...
Rolling With The Zero
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If you are a sub then you know that an important aspect of what separates
the Zero from traditional short term momentum/trend indicators are
divergences. I...
Sell or Buy Facebook Shares?
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[image: facebook_like_buton.png]
Facebook is off to a rough start, everyday its stock gets cheaper. Mastery
is warming up to the idea of owning FB.
F...
lots of bears
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Here is a pair of charts which illustrate the extent of bearish sentiment
prevailing in the market now.
The top chart shows the weekly reading (blue lin...
A Celebration
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Today marks 30 years of existence for The Cajun. I wanted to do a bunch of
things before I hit the age of 30, and I can sit here and tell you I’ve
done all...
Try harder when the market is good
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What do successful traders do ? They avoid bigger losses and that way they
have more gains than losses to count for. They trade when the odds are in
their ...
S & P Cash Close Contest for Friday 6-1-12
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Get your S&P Cash close guess in by 10 am EST Friday, 6/1/12, for your
chance to win a spin of the DTR Prize Wheel.
Members only.
Enter your guess...
Pennies from Hell
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I had lunch with Eddy Elfenbein today, and we had a great time together.
After all of the time that we have e-mailed, linked, etc., it was great to
make t...
Pre-Market/Post Market: 5-31-12
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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 ...
How will this move end?
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With a big breadth thrust.
So far it has not seen brutal selling. That kind of selling leads to
capitulation bottom. Low intensity selling is more in li...
100 High Yield Stocks Below $10 a Share
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If you ask the average investor if they prefer a low price stock over a
high price stock, all things being equal, most prefer the lower price
stock. As a m...
100 High Yield Stocks Below $10 per Share
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If you ask the average investor if they prefer a low price stock over a
high price stock, all things being equal, most prefer the lower price
stock. As a m...
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...
Chart Porn 05/30/2012 the impatient edition
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Both trades were in market I thought were ready to break hard. If I just
sat with both longer - I could have made decent money but instead 2 losers.
Stock Market Analysis Recap for 05/30/2012
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Hello Traders, hope everyone had a great day today as there were plenty of
opportunities across the board. We decided to stick with the $AMZN short
which w...
A New Mascot for Facebook
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With Facebook shares face-planting 25% since their IPO, I think a new
mascot is order. I propose the manatee. We have a lot of rules about the
endangered m...
Watching the Weekly EMA Stock Market Key Levels
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It’s not common when the 20 and 50 week EMAs play a key role in providing
both support/resistance as is the situation currently. Let’s take a quick
referen...
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...
E-mini Success Formula Closes in 24 Hours
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The deadline for you to grab a spot in Todd Mitchell’s *E-mini Success
Formula* program is almost here. Enrollment closes tomorrow. You have less
than 24 h...
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...
Jack Jumped Over The Candlestick!
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Japanese Candlesticks have become my renewed obsession, ever since mo
brought them to my attention again a few weeks ago. Furthermore, I've been
using ...
Weekend Charting 27 May 2012 : FX Charts
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Here are some charts with levels I am watching for the coming week. $EURAUD
H4 $GBPAUD H1 $GBPUSD H1 FTSE H1 Good trading. —————————————— For the same
char...
Some Interesting Links for Your Weekend Reading
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Let the Buyer Beware ... What you see at first is not always what you'll see if you look more closely. Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope yo...
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:
Ten Year Opportunity?
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_________________________ Ladies and Germs I love it when my pain becomes
your gain, and thanks to my “way too early” entry back into the precious
metal mi...
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 ...
Bulls Still Getting Outsold
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The bulls haven’t found their footing yet as the market moves lower within
its range. In some cases, we’re seeing some important recent levels get
broken,...
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...
MAY Position
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2012/04/27 BOUGHT YELP 21.50
2012/05/01 SOLD YELP 22.92
2012/04/18 BOUGHT SINA 59.90 #ROTH
2012/05/02 SOLD SINA 60.40
2012/05/01 SHORT CMG 418.80
2012...
How To Trade A Bullish Falling Wedge Pattern
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Hi folks!
Last week was a GREAT WEEK here at the ArtOfTrading.net !
We made a total of 8 trades of which 7 were winners!
We played A FALLING WEDGE PATTER...
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
-
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
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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...