For those of you who don't know yet, Larry Connors is giving his last free online presentation on his Professional ETF Trading Course today at 4:30 pm EST. These introductory presentations tend to run about 45 minutes long and sometimes can be a great trading reference just in themselves. In ... Read more

This month TradingMarkets.com launched their ETF PowerRatings system. It's a spinoff of Stock PowerRatings, a popular rating tool designed to let traders see at a glance which stocks are likely to advance or decline within a set period of time. I've played around with the new ETF PowerRatings a ... Read more

I was giving some thought to my reasons for fundraising for a cure for Crohn's disease and decided to further focus my efforts. Going forward I will be training, running, and fundraising specifically for the children who have Crohn's disease. Most forms of Crohn's set in between the ages of 1 ... Read more

How goes it all?  I know I fell of the map for a few months. The world has been hectic lately, and I've been unable to blog for awhile now. Just to give you some quick updates: I moved from Los Angeles to New York City, repurposed my skill set at work, started heavily networking through ... Read more

You couldn't make these things up, I swear. The Wall Street Journal ran a profile of French protest consultant Xavier Renou this morning. Whether intentional or not, WSJ does a great job of highlighting the overt absurdities and hypocrisies of a Parisian trying to capitalize on the proliferat ... Read more

I wish I had more free time to write about these things as they come to mind, because it would have been perfectly timed two days ago to discuss how I thought the one good thing this down economy might produce is a restructuring of labor practices. But alas, now I can only recycle old news. ... Read more

It's a bailout plan as only the San Fernando Valley could bring you. Hustler Magazine's Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild chief Joe Francis announced Wednesday their joint written request to Congress for a $5 billion federal bailout. After reading this article in the Daily Breeze , I was almost ... Read more

Resemblant of both the faltering economy and the precipitous decline of print media's once dominant position in news reporting, the Tribune Company has announced that it is filing for Chapter 11. The news sprang up quickly and came to many as a pity, though not as a shock. Tribune borrowed $13 b ... Read more

I know that I've become the poster child for anti-bailout sentiment, but please allow me just a few more comments on this mess. Bloomberg reported today that Congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are urging Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to put more restrictions on golden ... Read more

Yahoo announced last week that it would be making a 10 percent cut to its workforce in order to trim down some $400 million of it's operating cost. This must have been a painful thing to hear for those 1400 employees finding out they were toast. Except that they haven't found out. They know it's h ... Read more