Other > The Money Blogger

Trading Post-Crisis (Video)

Nicholas Collard | Tue, 12/22/2009 - 10:30am | ETF Funds, ETFs, exchange-traded funds, free giveaway!, Holiday gift for traders, John Gerzema, maximizing your returns, minimizing your risk, Post-Crisis consumerism, stocks, TED.com presentation, Time Price Scale-In, TPS, trading strategies | Add a comment

Ever visit the website Ted.com? It's a great source of information to wake your brain up during those office lulls when the computer starts to warp in some pseudo-psychedelic Twilight Zone fashion. That's about where I was an hour ago after I did a thorough copy check on our site and realized my n ... Read more

Other > The Financial Woman

Positive Earnings Announcements

TheFinancialWom... | Wed, 02/04/2009 - 1:49pm | COST, DIS, earnings announcements, earnings news, Financial, ILMN, investing, ITT, KFT, stock market, stocks | 6 comments

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

Trading > Biiwii.com Notes

A look at the Dow's status

Gary Tanashian | Mon, 07/06/2009 - 11:31am | hope in the market?, stock market, stock market analysis, stocks | 7 comments

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

Stock Investing > Finance Professor

U.S. Stocks Jump, Capping S&P 500’s Best 10-Day Gain Since 1938 - Bloomberg.com

Mahar | Tue, 03/24/2009 - 1:07pm | stock market analysis, stocks | Add a comment

U.S. Stocks Jump, Capping S&P 500’s Best 10-Day Gain Since 1938 - Bloomberg.com : Writing on the heels of yesterday's near 500 point run up, Bloomberg reports that as measured by the Dow, the market has its "steepest two-week gain since 1938". In case you wondered what followed in ... Read more

Trading > 247Wallst

Hidden Positive Aspects of Intel in Research (INTC, TSM)

247Wallst | Thu, 03/12/2009 - 2:32pm | analyst upgrades, INTC, Intel, stock market trends, stock ratings, stocks, TSM | 3 comments

Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) has risen today on an analyst upgrade and along with a strong stock market. Broadpoint AmTech raised its rating to “Buy” from “Neutral.” We normally would not make much of an issue on a single on-off event like this, but the analyst call ... Read th ... Read more

Stock Investing > Wishing Wealth

GMI and GMI-R are back to zero, QQQQ in new down-trend; TSYS and GLD; short or in cash

Wishing Wealth | Thu, 02/19/2009 - 9:45am | Cash, ETFs, GLD, GMI, GMI-R, qqqq, Short settling, stock market, stocks, TSYS | 7 comments

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

Trading > ATM Wallstreet

Determining Market Conditions

ATM Wallstreet | Wed, 02/11/2009 - 3:08pm | longs, market conditions, market patterns, stock market, stock market analysis, stocks | 2 comments

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

Personal Finance > FFS Blog

What's the Difference between a Stock and a Bond?

Tom Fisher | Thu, 02/05/2009 - 9:03am | Bonds, primer for trading, stocks, trading stocks | 7 comments

Last year, one of my clients asked me this question. He was well-educated, but had simply never had an occasion to learn how investments work. It struck me at that moment that if he didn't know, then plenty of other people probably don’t, so I decided to prepare a short introduction to the ... Read more

Trading > Market Moods

The Geithner Bottom?

David Penn | Mon, 11/24/2008 - 5:00am | Bottom, Geithner, Japan, mood, Obama, Rally, sentiment, stocks | 2 comments

The appointment of New York Fed President Timothy Geithner - "not Wall Street guy" - as Treasury secretary in the incoming Obama administration is this week's most compelling market mood match. The announcement, by many accounts, helped send the stock market soaring late in trading ... Read more

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