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Being in the midst of earnings season, bad earnings news is coming out daily on CNBC. I was left with quite a negative impression upon initially hearing today’s earnings reports, which included unfavorable news from normally defensive Kraft foods (KFT), along with Disney (DIS), and a negative fo ... Read more

One of the golden rules of mood analysis is that major declines in social mood will always be accompanied by dramatic outbreaks of mass violence. While I had watched the growing protests in Thailand, I thought that there still needed to be an even greater spectacle of discontent before this be ... Read more

You have no doubt seen this little potential head & shoulders elsewhere, so there is no new ground being broken here. But here is its current status showing a little hammer of hope trying to get the heck over the neck (blue) line. Actually, when I started the chart it was a cute little hammer ... Read more

Not sure how timely this is in The New Bull Market, but a quick word on dividend spreads since they came to the forefront the other day, and honestly, not sure the dynamics are clear if you've never spent time on a floor. Basically, here's how it goes. Let's say stock XYZ pays a quarterly ... Read more

The GMI and GMI-R have been zero since Tuesday’s close.  There were 3 new highs and 424 new lows in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Wednesday. The Worden T2108 Indicator is now 21% and heading down from the reading of 89% on January 6.  In the November swoon, this indicator bottomed at 1 ... Read more

              Here’s the breakdown on the odds of market condition 5% of the time the Market is  VERY STRONG Focus on Quality Long Patterns and even sloppy long patterns will work in this condition 20%   of the time the Market is STRONG to ... Read more

There were 3 new highs and 103 new lows in my universe of 4,000 stocks on Tuesday.  The GMI and GMI-R both declined.  But the QQQQ short term up-trend completed its 5th day.  I hold a little QLD and have a close sell stop in case the QQQQ declines more.  Note that MYGN and SXCI h ... Read more

OK, we all know, or at least we hope we all know, that options volatility constitutes a prediction of of where *realized* volatility will go over the next X Days. The "X" we almost always use is 30. So a standard volatility measure, call it "The VIX" or "The VXN" generally seeks to express volat ... Read more

Hey guys I just got done making a new market update video for you and I put it on Viddler. In it I explain why I think that right now we might have, at the very least, a short term buying opportunity in the market. Enjoy the video and please let me know what you think of it too.  http://www ... Read more

In class just the other day we talked about Efficient Markets and concluded that while markets are exceedingly difficult to beat on a risk adjusted basis, it does appear that as we learn more perfect efficiency in the sense of a random walk, is not really the case. So it is a great coincidence that ... Read more