Starting today, the next three weeks will be the heart of earnings season. Typically, trading on earnings/news flow tends to be very profitable...
In the midst of another downdraft for the markets, the worst performing sector in this young year has been the financials- specifically the...
One of the wonderful features of day trading is the ability to find what I like to call ânicheâ trades âtrades that allow me to make use of...
When we were kids, if we got a good report card, we could not wait to show our grades to our parents. When I got the report card that cemented my...
When the Golden Globe for best motion picture went to âSlumdog Millionaireâ on Sunday night, it cemented the status of Bollywood as a...
This will counterbalance Fridayâs piece a bit re why there is quite possibly a ceiling on the market, but then isnât what makes a market the...
OK. This one may sound a little out there, but stick with me. And I must credit one of my best friends for putting the concept of this piece in my...
One of the biggest and easiest ways for traders to lose money is to scalp the seemingly âsafeâ plays while not being aware of the news and/or...
One of the features of the recent relative quiet bull channel environment has been the absolute necessity to get out of your trades when you are...
Well, the new year has started andâ¦ho-hum. Volume yesterday remained very lackluster and the general malaise that has overtaken the markets...
In the late 1980âs, when the Japanese management style was all the rage, an image that was repeatedly shown on TV was that of groups of Japanese...
So, weâve now shaken off the cobwebs of the New Yearâs parties and flipped the calendar over to 2009. Now what? Well, first, donât expect...
The last day of the trading year can sometimes be quite interesting. Usually, the last day of trading acts like the previous 5-10 business days...
There are a few unique features which tend to occur only around this time of the year. One of the more prominent features which the day traders...
These are the volumes for the last several trading days of the QQQQ instrument: 172.1 million, 160 million, 142.8 million, 118.3 million, 95.4...
Many traders out there (including myself) use the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average as a measure of how the market is doing at any given...
This is one from the âWhen you think youâve seen it all, you really havenâtâ file. Precision Drilling (PDS) has had an offer on the table...
One of the leading discussions around trading rooms nation-wide was the sudden advance in oil Monday morning. Except of course that was no decline...
Last week (Monday and Tuesday), the Dow Jones Industrial Average had its first two days of back-to-back double digit moves since mid-September. It...
One knows the old saw âa watched pot never boils.â Well, that is the same thing with the stock market. And guess what? It inevitably works...
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