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The Struggle between Credit worries and the strength of the Global Economy

Market participants have been pummeled with sub-prime, prime, and consumer credit worries. Perma-bears have gripped onto these worries caused by the real estate market rise of this decade. Deriving a thesis from potential catastrophe is a continuous theme from the bear side. Many individuals buy into the doom and gloom with these bears and pile […]

Panic room?

Credit worries continue to weigh on traders.  The game of emotion will never end in the market.  Too many have forgotten what 2/27 gave us.  It allowed the market to move to new highs, even the Dow to all-time highs.  What today gave us was another shot at new highs but, before anyone jumps in […]

Wall of Worry grows, mortgage/housing worries continue as oil tops out

Credit woes as well as earnings disappoinments weighed on stocks this morning.  Oil hit a new high as Airlines tanked.  A sea of red continues even at 2pm EST. 
I’d like to point to Oil, it has topped.  Today’s reversal is signalling to me that we’ve seen the top of oil prices for the foreseeable future.  […]

Vacation is great but, still seeing too many calling for a crash

Vacation is going great, Central Oregon is a great place to vacation.  I am nestled in Sunriver, OR on the Deschutes River.  The view is spectacular, views of Mt. Bachelor and the Three Sisters peaks are just brilliant.  Its a shame I couldn’t trade from here full time.
Subprime worries continue, I wouldn’t put much value […]

Business Week feeding fear

Five Reasons to sell?
Please read here.
The argument about disppointing earnings does not lead, necessarily to a market decline.  If the disappointment is to the downside with a loss rather than a profit than this will lead to declines in the market.  For example:  GOOG missed earnings expectations but, they still had excellent earnings.  Does Business […]

Friday brings an increased level of downside risk but, holds uptrend

Stocks continue to be poised to move higher.  Although there is an increased risk to the downside from Firday’s trade Fear, emotion is running high.  NYSE short interest is at an all time high and the put/call ratio continues to be above 1.  These types of numbers are not consistant with a market top. 
Merger and […]

Stocks finish the day with sizeable gains although volume eased and oh yeah the Dow closed about 14,000 for the first time

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at an all time high of 14,000.41, the first close above 14k in its history.  Small Caps and the NASDAQ lead the way finishing higher by .76% and .84%.  NASDAQ volume did finish higher by .4% but, NYSE volume slipped 15%.  Suggesting insituitions are simply not involved with NYSE […]

Great article on Moore’s film “Sicko”

Read here.
Ever wonder if we got rid of our red tape if we’d have a better system? 
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