» The Big Picture For The Week Of July 20, 2008
07/19/08 12:07 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Ok, theory time. The other day I passed a long a snippet about Rydex adding four more currency funds, a couple would be new ground and a couple would not. I don't know how off the beaten path the ETF industry will get with currency funds b..

» Timeline of 17 Recessions and World Crises Since Great Depression
07/19/08 02:28 from Stock Trading 101
Looking at the economy currently in a recession I couldn't help but think that this has happened before (insert sarcastic tone) in the United States. So when I saw a full list of 40 Recessions and World Crises on the stock forum earlier to..

» Last Post of the Week
07/19/08 00:36 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
I'm going to hang it up early today. It's been another great week. I'm getting ready to leave for a week-long trip with my family. I'll probably manage to do one post a day during my vacation. Until then, I leave you with these charts, whi..

» OSTK - Missed Opportunity
07/19/08 00:36 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
I am religious about stops. But sometimes they really bite me in the butt. That doesn't mean I'll ever stop using them. But every now and then, you get a story like this. As regular readers know, I suggested shorting (or buying puts ..

» Weekend Analysis for 07/18/2008 - The Week That Was: Oil Breaks.. Banks Show Better Earnings
07/19/08 00:08 from Weekend Analysis
There were two very distinct happenings this week on wall street which bodes well for the economy and for the stock market, not that the road ahead is going to be easy if your bullish. The bulls can, however,  take away the breakdown ..

» Democrats and Republicans Alike Have Failed the Nation
07/18/08 20:09 from Financial Armageddon
It's sad, but some people seem to believe that fiscal responsibility is a partisan issue. The reasoning goes something like this: Since those on the left favor bigger government and increased public spending while those on the right (appar..

» Meridian Bioscience (VIVO) "Trading Transparency"
07/18/08 18:25 from Stock Picks Bob's Advice
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» Q's Holding Up
07/18/08 17:59 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Under the circumstances, with negative reaction to GOOG and MSFT, the Q's (Nasdaq: QQQQ) are not acting all that poorly.

» My iPhone Saga
07/18/08 16:51 from In The Money
I didn't buy the first version of the iPhone, as I am one who usually likes to wait for companies to work the kinks out of their first iteration of a new product. So I was eagerly awaiting the release of the new iPhone last week. I drove b..

» GOOG Options
07/18/08 16:00 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
This morning's 43 dollar drop in GOOG's price is an object lesson in how relatively volatile stocks have expensive premiums. The July put holders (and with today as expiration, that was a very risky bet!) were rewarded by the stock's drop,..

» That's No Ordinary Rabbit Beta
07/18/08 15:32 from Random Roger's Big Picture
I get a lot of stuff in my email that I never asked for but just get anyway. One that I get had an interesting title, something about not paying Alpha fees (no not the sorority) for beta results. This got me to thinking a little bit. I hav..

» Good Earnings For NYSE Stocks, Not So Much For The Nazz
07/18/08 14:32 from In The Money
There were some solid earnings reports last night and this morning, but mostly from companies listed on the NYSE . The companies in the Nazz mostly disappointed, and as such the Nasdaq is really lagging this morning. Citi (C) reported bette..

» A Mixed Batch Of Earnings Reports
07/18/08 13:00 from The Kirk Report
Good morning. A mixed batch of earnings reports and another drop in oil prices are in focus this Friday morning. We have no fresh economic data to consider beyond earnings. Premarket gainers: FNM , FRE , UAUA , C , MDVN , G , ACO , BRL , H..

» What Was That About A Bounce?
07/18/08 12:22 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Well, we are rallying and what do you know, it feels good. Stocks are up, commodities are down and every gas tank is full. I wrote about this happening right before it started and now it is happening. No clairvoyance whatsoever, or even mu..

» Lehman (LEH) and Fuzzy Statistics
07/18/08 11:13 from Stock Chartist
I see much written about the possible bottom forming in financial stocks. For example, Doug Cass, whom you have to respect for his usual clear-headed thinking, was recently touting Lehman (LEH) for the following fundamental reasons in a th..

» A Reader Writes "I am trying to figure out how the blogs are ranked…"
07/18/08 02:56 from Stock Picks Bob's Advice
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» Earnings Galore
07/18/08 01:47 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Well, this is the day we've all been waiting for - - and what terrific results were offered after hours! There are an avalanche of earnings out there - - IBM, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft - - the list is very long, and the vast majority of sto..

» GOOG Earnings
07/18/08 01:47 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight

» Ever Been To Yosemite?
07/17/08 23:18 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Well, it's not too shabby. More pictures later.

» Financials & Transportation Stocks Fuel Rally
07/17/08 21:39 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The indices were up in the morning, then back down in the morning, then back up in the afternoon, and consolidated in the last hour with a downward bias.

» Broken-Down Superpower
07/17/08 20:44 from Financial Armageddon
It's become something of a sports-world cliché: champion athletes who stick around way past their prime, believing they've still got what it takes to come out on top. Eventually, they end up as pathetic, broken-down figures. Does that des..

» Meridian Bioscience (VIVO) "Trading Transparency"
07/17/08 19:45 from Stock Picks Bob's Advice
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» Dow at Short-Term Resistance
07/17/08 19:21 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
It's not a wall of stone, but it's OK. And it's precisely the point I anticipated in last night's posting.

» MSFT H & S?
07/17/08 19:21 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
I hardly ever trade Microsoft (MSFT) - - I can't even remember the last time I did. It may have been years. It's a really, really boring stock, and the price is too low to give the options much choose. But this chart is mildly compelling. ..

» She Has Yellow Teeth
07/17/08 19:21 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Well, besides having a government that the world doesn't respect very much, now we have something else in common with Pakistan - - - - the need for the government to outlaw short-selling in order to protect the whiny, childish, needful bul..

» More Weakness Ahead for Gold?
07/17/08 16:25 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
I want to wait to see if the GLD tests — and breaks — the lower channel support line, which will argue for additional weakness into the 91.00-90.00 target zone.

» More Strong Bank Earnings Boost Market
07/17/08 14:58 from In The Money
The market got another boost from a large financial firm, this time JP Morgan (JPM). The company reported better-than-expected earnings, and it stock gapped +10% higher. This helped boost the financials and the broader market as well. Fanni..

» Sing dollar
07/17/08 14:48 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Rydex To Launch ETFs Tracking 4 Currencies - Yahoo! News The four included above are the Singapore dollar, Russian ruble, HK dollar and the South African rand. Of most interest to me is the Sing dollar. If they ever create a euro in Asia i..

» 40 Great Inverse / Short ETFs For Bearish Investors
07/17/08 14:37 from Stock Trading 101
Inverse Exchange Traded Funds (ETFS) are a great way for investors to go short on different sectors or indices without having to actually sell stock short . There are many to choose from and some even are an Ultra ETF which means they have..

» The U S of triple A
07/17/08 14:28 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Financial Armageddon: The Beginning of the End for America's AAA Rating? Not a new subject but what if the triple rating is in jeopardy or is going to go away? It is a waste of time to discuss whether it should or should not be downgraded,..

» Relief Rally Underway
07/17/08 13:29 from The Kirk Report
Good morning. The market is set up for a positive day following yesterday's long overdue relief rally. Better-than-expected earnings results (see JPM , KO , UTX , & NOK ) and a some positive economic data in the form of stronger than expec..

» Yosemite!
07/17/08 12:23 from Random Roger's Big Picture
We had to go to Fresno, I am standing in a wedding on Saturday. Since we were in the neighborhood we thought we'd head up to Yosemite. I'll have some good pictures to post later. The last time I did a video I said well not much of a video,..

» She Has Yellow Teeth
07/17/08 04:32 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Well, besides having a government that the world doesn't respect very much, now we have something else in common with Pakistan - - - - the need for the government to outlaw short-selling in order to protect the whiny, childish, pathetic bu..

» Expanded Head-and-Shoulder Top Formation Emerging
07/17/08 00:31 from Stock Chartist
If the talk at your dinner table was anything like mine then the discussion may have been about whether the market has bottomed, whether there's now been capitulation, whether we've seen the worst in financial stocks and the best in oil & ..

» U.S. News & World Onion?
07/17/08 00:24 from Financial Armageddon
When I first read today's post, "Mental Recession? Maybe. Economic Recession? No," by James Pethokoukis, "money and politics blogger" for U.S. News & World Report 's Capital Commerce blog and the assistant managing editor of the magazine's..

» Lufkin Industries (LUFK) "Trading Transparency
07/16/08 23:28 from Stock Picks Bob's Advice
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» Financials Enjoy Huge Countertrend Rally
07/16/08 22:52 from In The Money
The financials soared today, no doubt about it. WFC spiked +32%, LEH gained +26%, Citi and MER +13%, and GS +9%. I don't think that this reverses the downtrend in financials, but you always see the biggest rally in a bear market, and that's..

» Solid Follow-Through Rally
07/16/08 22:32 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The stock market indices had a fantastic follow-through session to yesterday's reversal day and we may have very well seen an important intermediate low put in.

» Q's Near-Term Bullish
07/16/08 17:18 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
In contrast to my interpretation of the near-term pattern exhibited by the SPYs, the Q's (Nasdaq: QQQQ) have a more bullish "look" from yesterday's low.

» Wells Fargo Shows Not All Banks STruggling
07/16/08 14:33 from In The Money
Some strong earnings reports are helping the market get a small boost in early trading, but we need to see a much bigger rally to even make a dent in the recent declines. Wells Fargo (WFC) topped earnings expectations, and also raised its d..

» Earnings, Oil, Inflation, & Fear
07/16/08 13:11 from The Kirk Report
Good morning. Premarket futures have been volatile this morning as investors sort through a batch of earnings reports that were for the most part not as bad as previously feared ( WFC , INTC , ABT , CSX ) and another drop in oil prices. Ho..

» A Rant By The Lake
07/16/08 12:20 from Random Roger's Big Picture
The other day I was chatting with another firefighter and when we were done with department business he asked me about the stock market. He told me he is down by some amount and like most folks he is not sure what to do and he is a tad dub..

» The Beginning of the End for America's AAA Rating?
07/16/08 09:50 from Financial Armageddon
Over the past three days, the price of a credit default swap (or CDS, a form of "insurance" on creditworthiness) on 10-year U.S. government debt has risen by 8.3 basis points (one-hundreths of a percentage point), or 61 percent, to 21.8 ba..

» OptionsXpress Online Stock Broker Speed Review
07/16/08 05:51 from Stock Trading 101
OptionsXpress has been featured in numerous publications receiving awards from Barron's, Forbes, Kiplinger's, Smart Money , and more. As an online stock broker OptionsXpress thrives in offering simple and inexpensive ways to buy and sell s..

» Dance on Vaseline
07/16/08 04:01 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
I haven't mentioned my book in a while, so I'll do so here, since a lot of readers might not know about it - - - if you have an interest in ProphetCharts (which I use to compose this blog) or in my approach to technical analysis, you might..

» Graham (GHM) "Trading Transparency"
07/16/08 01:15 from Stock Picks Bob's Advice
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» Other Issues to Consider
07/16/08 00:48 from Financial Armageddon
When people think about the fallout from high energy prices, they tend to focus on the more obvious concerns. Like individuals who can't afford to drive to work or get to the store. Or businesses that are struggling with higher costs. Or m..

» Running Scared
07/16/08 00:20 from Financial Armageddon
Many financial bloggers pay a great deal of attention to data and trends. Yet in my view, the numbers alone aren't enough. Decisions that drive markets and economic activity are made by people. They, in turn, are influenced by experiences,..

» Turnaround Tuesday? Not so fast!
07/15/08 22:38 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The overall decline continued today as the stock market reached new multi-week lows before a very sharp rally brought them way back, only to disappoint in the last 45-50 minutes.

» Weekly Market Commentary - July 15, 2008
07/15/08 21:00 from Stock Trading 101
                Last week I described how the equity markets are severely oversold and that history has taught us that buying stocks in this environment ultimately yields substantial rewards.  Since then, the Dow Jones Indu..

» Healthcare Products Industry
07/15/08 20:02 from Stock Chartist
Yesterday was a truly awful day today, the absolute definition of the words "whipsawed" and "rotation". Take a look at the intraday S&P 500 chart: The Index had a 2.8% move from its low of 1200 to it's high of 1234; it closed with a 1.09% ..

» Heading Into The Close
07/15/08 19:09 from In The Money
The market has staged a dramatic intraday reversal (if it holds). After making a climatic low this morning, and the VIX spiking to 30.81, the market bottomed and has been working higher the rest of the session. All of the indexes are curren..

» These Two Charts are the Same Stock
07/15/08 18:20 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
It's like we've entered the Twilight Zone. This superb, steady, long-term winner…….. …..now looks like this………. I really am not trying to be so hyperbolic on this blog, but we must be living through one ..

» Done with GOOG
07/15/08 18:20 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
I had puts in both my accounts on GOOG, and I've closed them, simply because it got close enough to my $500 price target (the low for today so far was 501.10). Not to say that it couldn't go a lot lower - remember that earnings come out Th..

» Hypothesis Working Well
07/15/08 18:20 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Over the past weeks, I've been working with three general notions: Short energy Short ags Day-trade indexes ($RUT, $NDX, $SPX) but generally avoid overnight positions  This has been working very, ve..

» Whoosh!
07/15/08 18:20 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
It's just one amazing day after an other. The Dow was down over 200 within 40 minutes of the opening bell. My energy puts are doing fantastic. I entered the day with $NDX puts, but I just took profits on those. The indexes are sweeping tow..

» Oil Slides!
07/15/08 17:10 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
The U.S. Oil Fund ETF (AMEXL USO) plunged from around 118.50 to nearly 110.00, but since then has not managed to recover much.

» Bernanke Speaks On The Economy
07/15/08 14:33 from In The Money
The market is lower in early trading, led down once again by the financials. After their biggest one-day drop in 8 years, the bank index is lower by another -5% this morning amid continuing concerns about banks' capital positions. GM announ..

» Financials Bottoming?
07/15/08 14:22 from Weekly Wizards
The only bright spot for the market may be Merrill's earnings and a potential bottom for financial, but as of yet the bear continues to take no prisoners, says money manager Jay Matulich.

» NASDAQ 100 Market Index Stocks
07/15/08 13:40 from Stock Trading 101
There are several key stock market indexes every investor should know when trading. The major stock indexes are the NASDAQ Composite, the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrials, and the NASDAQ 100. Here is a list of all 100 companies that make..

» Busy Day
07/15/08 13:06 from The Kirk Report
Good morning. The market will face information overload with a number of economic data points, earnings, and speeches. So far, reaction to this morning's data is profoundly negative with premarket futures pointing to another negative open…

» Bounce A Comin?
07/15/08 12:29 from Random Roger's Big Picture
Yesterday I talked a little about a possible bounce coming, what I have been referring to as a feel good rally. Jon Hussman this week also talked about the possibility of some sort of bounce in the offing. Hopefully as the months have worn ..

» Prediction, Clairvoyance or Self-Fulfilling Prophesy?
07/15/08 02:28 from Stock Chartist
I wish there were more positive news and ideas to share with you, friends, but there just isn't. The market is starting to feel like "Chinese water-torture", a continual slow-drip on the forehead that supposedly ultimately drives its victi..

» Whipsaw
07/14/08 22:21 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
You've probably heard the old saw about war: long stretches of unbearable boredom interrupted by brief spurts of sheer terror. That's what the market seems like these days. In spite of whatever you may read about a tame VIX, the market is ..

» Relentless Onslaught Continues
07/14/08 22:07 from Harry's Closing Boxer Brief
The markets suffered another down-session in a relentless onslaught, particularly in the financials, which pressured the market all day.

» Was Today Capitulation In The Financials?
07/14/08 22:03 from In The Money
At the open, it looked like the Treasury announcement regarding Fannie and Freddie might be enough to spark a rally. But soon the concern regarding the financials resurfaced, and the regional bank stocks began falling precipitously. After ..

» Have Bailouts Stopped Working?
07/14/08 19:05 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Judging from the pre-market action this morning, one would expect the Dow to be up several hundred points right now. Amazingly, all the major indexes are in the red. It seems that, unlike before, the US Government rushing in to the rescue ..

» No Significant Signal that Q's Have Put in a Low
07/14/08 16:23 from Mike's Mid-Day Minute
Unless and until the Q's (Nasdaq: QQQQ) hurdle and sustain above 45.45, the pattern carved out since July 1st continues to exhibit lower-lows and lower-highs (otherwise defined as a downtrend!).

» Mid Morning
07/14/08 14:53 from Random Roger's Big Picture
The pop from the open has obviously petered out for now, about flat for the S&P 500 as I write this. One general observation; news like we had over the weekend about Fannie, Freddie, Paulie and Bennie and the Feds could turn out to be the c..

» Can The Market Hang On To Early Bounce?
07/14/08 14:30 from In The Money
The market got a nice bounce after the open on the heels of some positive news for Fannie and Freddie . Treasury Secretary Paulson announced a plan to temporarily increase their line of credit with the Treasury, and also give the Treasury t..

» Rescue Plan For Fannie & Freddie
07/14/08 12:58 from The Kirk Report
Good morning. Premarket futures are in rally mode after the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve announce a rescue plan to save Fannie & Freddie. The news is timely considering that the FDIC was forced to seize IndyMac Bancorp on Friday (the ..

» Freddie, Fannie and the Future
07/14/08 12:34 from Stock Chartist
Futures show a big increase coming but let's put those numbers into focus. The Dow futures are up around 120, S&P 500 up 16 and Nasdaq up 18. So the talking heads are painting these increases as a turn-around. In reality, this could be not..

» Off The Beaten Path
07/14/08 12:22 from Random Roger's Big Picture
In continuing this thread (not only here but on greenfaucet and TheStreet.com) about sectors and proxies and such… I've mentioned a few times over the years that it would become easier to build very narrow portfolios with very specific e..

» FRE/FNM Bailout
07/14/08 12:13 from Slope of Hope with Tim Knight
Just as people describe mid-March as the "BSC Bottom", I think what we saw Friday will be remembered as the "FRE/FNM Bottom." Thanks - once again - to a government-orchestrated bailout, the market is getting ready for a major bounce. ..

» My Prosper.com Account: Update #5
07/14/08 02:18 from Stock Picks Bob's Advice
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