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» The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (by Springheel Jack)
09/02/10 12:22 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
The move off 1040 SPX this week was a familiar sight.Since the beginning of October last year there have been six previous moves up from 1040 or below and it is worth noting that not one of those failed to make it to at least 1099 SPX. Tha..

» A Real Black Swan...
09/02/10 12:20 from Random Roger's Big Picture
...If it is true which I cannot vouch for but this is fascinating and something I have to say I have never thought of. A reader who goes by the name Paul H. M. at Seeking Alpha left the following comment on a post by George Speicher . We're..

» Huge Rally
09/02/10 03:49 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices gapped up sharply at the opening as foreign markets were higher. With economic news coming out and interpreted as not being as bad as anticipated, the indices gapped up to resistance, backed off briefly for a few m..

» Another Installment of 'Scenes from a V-Shaped Recovery'
09/02/10 00:23 from Financial Armageddon
In honor of today's single-positive-data-point-driven-triple-digit rally , I thought it would be a perfect time for another installment of "Scenes from a V-Shaped Recovery" : "Financial Depression Spreads Among Seniors" ( Blacklisted..

» Resilience
09/01/10 23:37 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Let me start with an important premise: I love trading. Because if I didn't love trading, days like today would have compelled me to quit long, long ago. My love for trading makes the thousands of hours I put into charting and doing ..

» 25 Great Stocks to Watch After Today’s Huge Rally
09/01/10 21:50 from Stock Trading 101
After ending August on a gloomy note the market has started September with a bang after all major indices were up close to 3%. The NASDAQ had a strong accumulation day as tech stocks lead the way while the S&P 500 and Dow both traded ..

» A Harrowing Session
09/01/10 20:02 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Today was my worst trading day ever , measured in dollar terms.   I came into the day not just fully short, but margined to about 135%. Virtually every one of my positions was in the red, and I trimmed the quantity of my positi..

» Home On The Range (by facesincabs)
09/01/10 17:25 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
What an "in your face" start to the month of September!  I am not too bothered, as I am expecting lots more fireworks (and surprises) over the next couple of months.  For today, I am focusing my post briefly on just two charts.  They are g..

» More Upside for BMY
09/01/10 17:03 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Increasingly the pattern carved out by Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) during the past three weeks has the right look of a bullish digestion period from the Aug 10 high at 26.78 to the Aug 27 low at 25.66. Since the corrective low, BMY ha..

» Harry Boxer's Charts of the Day
09/01/10 16:13 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Originally published on TheTechTrader.com .

» Market Soars On Strong PMI Data
09/01/10 15:34 from In The Money
Busy morning for me so far, so I'll have to keep this post brief. The market was already set to open higher after upbeat data out of Europe and Asia had those markets trading higher. The ADP Employment report was disappointing, as it showed..

» Bullish Action Overnight (by Springheel Jack)
09/01/10 15:00 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
The overnight action wasn't encouraging for bears last night and ES retested the upper trendline of the ES declining channel from the August high: Over the last day ES has formed a rising wedge from the low. That is bearish, but only weakl..

» Market? Up Of Course!
09/01/10 14:07 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Apparently it is all good! Hollah!

» Cycles and Risk
09/01/10 12:18 from Random Roger's Big Picture
The segment on CNBC, right before the close yesterday, featured commentary from Rick Bensignor and David Darst. There were a couple of points made in the segment that seem to have been accepted as truthisms that I think are actually counter..

» Trading The Opening Gap (by Market Sniper)
09/01/10 12:14 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Trading the opening gap is a contrarian trade. You are looking to trade in the opposite direction of the gap. You will look to "fade" the gap. The stock market open at 9:30 Eastern time is a time, usually, of high emotions. You are looking..

» Top 10 Hottest ETFs – September 2010
09/01/10 03:48 from Stock Trading 101
Looking to add some hot Exchange Traded Funds – ETFs – to your investment portfolio? If so you need to read the list below which consists of the 10 best ETFs based on overall return from the last month. Note: ETFs must trade at..

» Awesome Footage of August Market Action
09/01/10 03:13 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight

» Rocky Session Ends Mixed
08/31/10 23:31 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices ended mixed at the close, but had a rocky road. They started out with a sharp move downward, testing key support at 1040 on the S&P 500 and near the 1755 area on the Nasdaq 100, and then rallied back sharply on les..

» August, Die She Must
08/31/10 22:24 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight

» 'The Consumer is Totally Wrecked'
08/31/10 20:28 from Financial Armageddon
Yes, I'm sure it reflects confirmation bias on my part, but it's hard to ignore Howard Davidowitz's thoughts on the state of the economy given that he has in recent years been correctly pessimistic on prospects for a sustainable recovery. ..

» Good-Bye to August's Nice, Steady Ride
08/31/10 20:04 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight

» Thrust in Gold
08/31/10 14:53 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Not sure what specifically triggered the pre-market thrust in gold and in the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD), but there are probably 10 fundamental reasons we can come up with, aside from the resumption of the "flight-to-safety" excuse. Righ..

» S&P Tests 1040 Level Again
08/31/10 14:39 from In The Money
The market has been both lower and higher already in early trading, as a few economic releases swayed early trading. The CaseShiller Home Price Index for June rose to 148.0 from 146.5. That was a slight improvement, but most of the housing ..

» ETF Filings Portfolio
08/31/10 12:00 from Random Roger's Big Picture
A thought occurred to me the other day as I was looking at the filings page on the IndexUniverse weekly ETF Watch. It might be interesting to create a portfolio from some of the funds that are in registration. To be clear these funds do no ..

» Wrong Direction
08/31/10 00:32 from Financial Armageddon
According to  USA Today , "Government anti-poverty programs that have grown to meet the needs of recession victims now serve a record one in six Americans and are continuing to expand. Hmmm. Not exactly a V-shaped recovery, is ..

» A Fan of Upward -Sloping Trendlines
08/31/10 00:24 from Stock Chartist
I must confess that I too am confused, frustrated and starting to lose both my patience and my motivation. I read other blogs, newsletters, financial sites and come away convinced that no one knows with any degree of certainty what's comin..

» Analysis – ARUN, TSLA, CMG, PAY, SLW, LZ
08/30/10 23:09 from Stock Trading 101
Considering investors were very bullish heading into today after the session Friday ended on such an upbeat note, I was very surprised to see the market slip some 1.5%. This sets the stage for a very interesting week as wall street investo..

» Indices Spike Down into the Close
08/30/10 21:14 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices suffered a down day to start the week, but did start with a little strength early on in the Nasdaq 100, when it retested the 1799-1800 zone unsuccessfully. The S&P 500 got up to 1064 and change and then began a sli..

» Bullish Shanghai Index a Harbinger for SPX?
08/30/10 18:49 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Today's sharp 2.5% upmove in the Shanghai Composite from Friday's close shows that the price structure held above -- and lifted off of -- its prior (Aug 13) pullback low at 2564, as well as near-term MA support in and around 2610. Today's ..

» Navigating the Hazards
08/30/10 13:03 from Stock Chartist
Because of popular demand .... and a fortuitous turn in the market on Friday .... I'm updating the stats on the Lunar Cycle/Stock Market phenomena. The last phase, which was waxing to full that ended on August 24, last Tuesday, saw the mar..

» Dark Side Of The Equities Moon
08/30/10 12:14 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Albert Edwards was quoted (or maybe paraphrased is a better word) this weekend by both Alan Abelson and Prieur du Plessis with some dire price targets for the S&P 500. Neither post provided links but there were two different numbers; Abelso..

» Interesting Viewing
08/30/10 01:54 from Financial Armageddon
A documentary on the financial crisis which premiered in May, Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis , is now posted on YouTub e. Based on Swedish writer Johan Norberg’s book Financial Fiasco , the film features insights from Peter Schiff, Ge..

» Sunday Morning Coffee
08/29/10 12:38 from Random Roger's Big Picture
I wanted to carry the dividends idea forward a little bit. There are some enormous dividends out there to be had. What I thought I would do is construct a portfolio where for each sector there is one very high yielding stock and one ETF. Fo..

» Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
08/29/10 03:01 from Stock Picks Bob's Advice
Hello Friends!  Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting my blog, Stock Picks Bob's Advice !  As always, please remember that I am an amateur investor, so please remember to consult with your professional investment advise..

» The Big Picture for the Week of August 29, 2010
08/28/10 12:37 from Random Roger's Big Picture
A couple of observations about a couple of individual stocks. The first stock to mention is Intel (INTC). It made news yesterday for a revenue warning and it made news a few days ago for its intention to buy McAfee (MFE). The idea behind t..

» Indices Close the Week with Strong Snapback Rally
08/27/10 22:34 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices had a very strong snapback session to close out the week on apparent short-covering and bargain hunting. In the morning they opened firm, but then rolled over hard on negative economic news, taking the Nasdaq 100 u..

» Bonds Tiring, Gold Moving Higher
08/27/10 17:50 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
What might Bernanke's speech have said or implied that triggered the market response that we have witnessed so far today? How about: Don't fight the Fed...The economy is anemic, and the outlook might be uncertain-to-poor, but the Fed will ..

» Market Shrugs Off Lowered Guidance From Intel
08/27/10 14:53 from In The Money
The market was higher right after the open, after Q2 GDP was revised down to 1.6%, which was still higher than the 1.4% many were expecting. Additionally, personal consumption for Q2 was actually revised higher to 2.0% from 1.6%. So the GDP..

» Solving Our Own (Spending) Problems
08/27/10 12:05 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Yesterday I had a quick but interesting chat with an acquaintance about spending in retirement and the issue that too many people have with spending beyond their means. In the conversation I think I hit on a couple of things that could be u..

» Stock Analysis – GMCR, RDWR, PAY, SLW, BIDU
08/27/10 03:14 from Stock Trading 101
More back and forth from the market today as we opened with a decent gap to the upside just to see it reverse down throughout the day finishing in the red. Volume was lower so not too much significance can be concluded from today's session..

» Indices Suffer Setback
08/27/10 00:31 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices suffered a setback today as early strong movement to key overhead resistance failed and they sold off for the rest of the session in stair-step fashion. The Nasdaq 100, reaching just over 1800, pulled all the way b..

» Investor Sentiment Reaching Bearish Extremes Again
08/26/10 23:13 from In The Money
Below is a graph from my colleague Helene Meisler at TheStreet.com which shows this week's Investor's Intelligence poll. As you can see, if you add up the number of bears in the survey plus those looking for a "correction", you can see that..

» Constructive Pattern for Qualcomm
08/26/10 18:10 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Let's notice that during the August corrective period, Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM) has carved out a contractionary, coil-type consolidation pattern in the aftermath and atop its prior explosive upmove from the July low at 31.51 to the Aug high..

» Nice Drop In Jobless Claims
08/26/10 15:09 from In The Money
The market is slightly higher in early trading after a solid jobless claims report, and some positive action out of Europe. Initial jobless claims for last week came in at 473,000, which is below expectations and also down 31,000 week-over-..

» James Montier Loves Dividends
08/26/10 12:24 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Barry Ritholtz posted a commentary from James Montier about dividends that is a useful read and has some handy data. To a large extent I am a big fan of dividends but there are limits to what they can provide. If you think in terms of the S..

» Snapback Rally
08/26/10 03:31 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices had a snapback rally. After reaching new pullback lows and testing key support near 1760 on the Nasdaq 100 and 1040 on the S&P 500, they bounced back in the morning, consolidated mid-day, and then extended the rall..

» Spike High for Treasuries
08/25/10 16:58 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Based on my near- and intermediate-term work, the pattern and momentum configuration in the iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treas Bond ETF (TLT) argue that the price structure hit a spike high this morning at 109.50, reflecting the flight to safet..

» Back In The Saddle
08/25/10 14:43 from In The Money
I am back from my visit of taking my kids to see their grandparents in Cleveland. It sure does seem that the market always falls out of bed when I am away from my desk. Of course, these days you can access your systems from anywhere, but it..

» The Market Still Stinks
08/25/10 12:05 from Random Roger's Big Picture
David Rosenberg is making some new noise about the US being in a depression. He is not alone in this line of thinking but of course he has the ear of much of the investing population. He has generally been on the right side of the trade for..

» Stock Picks and Market Analysis – AAPL, ARUN, CRM, NFLX, ISLN, RDWR, GLD, AKAM
08/25/10 01:39 from Stock Trading 101
The market continues to get hit hard as sellers overpower buyers and prices push further south. Today the headlines revolved around housing which showed that sales of previously occupied homes fell last month to their lowest level in 15 ye..

» Another Sharp Setback
08/25/10 00:17 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices suffered another sharp setback, breaking key support today. At the opening they gapped down sharply, went sharply lower reaching 1767 on the Nasdaq 100 and as low as 1046 and change on the S&P 500. At that point th..

» Tale of Two Markets (China & U.S.)
08/24/10 17:04 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
We're keeping an eye on Chinese ADRs, like Shanda Interactive (SNDA) and Trina Solar (TSL), in view of the strong relative showing of the Shanghai Composite Index compared to the Cash S&P 500 (SPX). I have a thesis that the global equity m..

» Predicting The Next Black Swan (Again)
08/24/10 12:14 from Random Roger's Big Picture
That title is still a joke as by definition a black swan is not reasonably predictable. The Wall Street Journal had sort of a long article on the subject called How To Profit From The Next Black Swan . For most individuals and professionals..

» Losing Session Closes Near Key Support
08/24/10 00:09 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices started the week out on a negative note, but the session began very differently. They gapped up at the opening, ran sharply, reached resistance, and then came down very hard off those resistance levels to test supp..

» Expected Upside for Trina Solar
08/23/10 17:52 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
All of the action in Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL) off of the July high at 22.45 through today's trading has the right look of a mature (read: nearly complete) bullish coil pattern, which if accurate means that the next significant directional m..

» Laws of Supply and Demand At Work In The Stock Market
08/23/10 14:38 from Stock Chartist
A recurring theme over the past week has been the talk of the money flowing out of equities and into fixed income, like the following from Bloomberg: "The amount of money flowing into bond funds is poised to exceed the cash that went into ..

» The Psychology Behind Low Yields
08/23/10 12:24 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Marketwatch had an article over the weekend about the recent success of the junk bond ETFs and some of the reasons why investors have been so keen on this space. Of more interest to me was a quote in the article from Doug Cliggott from Cred..

» Sunday Morning Coffee
08/22/10 12:32 from Random Roger's Big Picture
A reader sent me their version of the permanent portfolio and while I don't think my opinion was being solicited it got me thinking about trying to put together a version that did not rely on the typical funds but instead tweaked the idea...

» The Big Picture for the Week of August 22, 2010
08/21/10 12:15 from Random Roger's Big Picture
The big personal finance story yesterday seemed to be that 22% of Fidelity 401k participants (not Fido's employees but employees of companies who use Fido for 401k admin services) have loans outstanding against their 401ks which is a high n..

» Mixed Closed, but Indices Well Off Lows
08/20/10 22:40 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices ended mixed on the day today after a mid-day and afternoon rally brought them back from early losses. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 opened lower, tried to bounce in the morning, but then gave it up. They hit new lows ..

» Can China Market Hold Up Despite Wall Street Weakness?
08/20/10 18:10 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Instead of breaking out to the upside above 2700 today, the Shanghai Composite instead rolled over into a bout of profit- taking (-1.8%). That said, however, let's notice that the weakness has not violated any meaningful technical levels, ..

» Everyone Into The Bunker!
08/20/10 12:15 from Random Roger's Big Picture
The title for this post comes from a couple of articles from the other day. One was from The Housing Time Bomb blog (great name) and the other from The Business Insider . First from Housing Time Bomb, Jeff (the blogger in question) asks the..

» Colgate Palmolive (CL) "Trading Transparency"
08/20/10 02:51 from Stock Picks Bob's Advice
Hello Friends!  Thanks so much for stopping by and visiting my blog, Stock Picks Bob's Advice !  As always, please remember that I am an amateur investor, so please remember to consult with your professional investment advise..

» 8 Great Stocks to Watch – X, AMZN, CMG, LXK, ISLN, RDWR, AZO, AKAM
08/19/10 22:32 from Stock Trading 101
After jobless claims rose unexpectedly the market reversed its upbeat futures and gapped to the downside. No rally came thereafter and the S&P 500 closed down 1.69% claiming another distribution today. I am still 100% cash at this tim..

» Nasty Spill
08/19/10 21:33 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices suffered a nasty spill in a very negative session today. They gapped lower at the opening, went down sharply in the morning despite a 15-minute bounce, and then rolled over hard to the session lows just before noon..

» Becoming A "Go-Ahead" Nation ... Again
08/19/10 19:00 from Stock Chartist
Please pardon my getting political but since there's nothing really very interesting or pleasant taking place in the stock market and because this is my blog, I want to get something off my chest. I'm a history buff (what true chartist wou..

» AKS Strong Relative Performance
08/19/10 16:59 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Barring a global exodus from equities on a rotating timezone basis, I want to stay with AK Steel Corp (NYSE: AKS) for a number of reasons. Purely on a technical basis, so far today, the weakness has NOT violated the prior pullback low. Sec..

» Investor Luminary Thursday
08/19/10 12:12 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Barry Ritholtz posted an interview he conducted with longtime Barron's Roundtable member Felix Zulauf that is a must read. There were a couple of things that really stood out to me but you should read it in its entirety. Zulauf considers hi..

» Indices Marginally Higher
08/18/10 23:07 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
Indices Marginally Higher by Harry Boxer, www.TheTechTrader.com The stock market indices ended marginally higher today and had an interesting path. They opened lower with a gap down, broke support and did a severe test of the three-day ris..

» New Recovery Highs for Gold
08/18/10 18:25 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Today's early weakness in gold has totally reversed, with the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSE: GLD) pivoting off of 119.00 into a powerful rally to new recovery highs at 120.51 so far. My near-term technical work points still higher, into the 121.6..

» Head and Shoulder Reversal Chart Pattern?
08/18/10 17:07 from Stock Chartist
As the week began, everyone was talking about the Hindenburg Omen. Granted, it's a clever choice of name but probably indicates little else. Anyone creative enough can come up with a bunch of disparate, unrelated and rather arbitrary metri..

» Slogging Through The Summer Doldrums
08/18/10 15:15 from In The Money
The market rallied nicely yesterday, but volume was again quite low. That's how it often is in August, as traders and portfolio managers get their summer vacations in prior to September, when things kick into high gear again. Target ( TGT )..

» Fixed Income Free For All
08/18/10 12:28 from Random Roger's Big Picture
A few observations about the fixed income market. FT Alphaville had a post yesterday that recapped a paper that explored whether or not there is actually enough investment capital in existence to buy amount of debt the US treasury will have..

» Indices Stage Strong Morning Rally, but Close Off Highs
08/17/10 21:43 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices staged a very strong rally in the morning when they gapped up strongly, formed bull flags, ran hard mid-morning, flagged again near midday, and then spiked up to the highs for the day near 1860 on the Nasdaq 100 an..

» Near-term Low in RIMM
08/17/10 17:17 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Today’s point-and-figure low print at 49.40 in Research in Motion (RIMM) satisfies a downside swing objective created by the prior decline from 58.60 to 51.70 and has the right look of a completed correction – or a corrective l..