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Stocks Were Stuck in Idle as Volume Slides Across Wall Street

Traders were hesitant to jump in or out of stocks Monday as the market ended relatively flat and on lower volume.  Crude oil jumped on news that Dolly may threaten the Gulf’s off-shore drilling facilities.  However, the storm seems a little erratic at this point to judge the path and if it will head towards […]

Market Bounces Intra-Day, But It was Another Bear Market Bounce

Tuesday’s action was following our most recent trend: DOWN! However, when GM news was released a flood of short covering hit Wall Street. This set off a wave of short sellers across the market to head for cover, pun intended.  The market got to a point where it could not get anymore oversold […]

Fear Invades the Market Like a Plague

Like storm clouds moving in Fear has gripped Wall Street. Two fear indicators: VIX and VXN have both risen 37% since the start of the month. It is unreal the amount of fear that has gripped many traders on Wall Street. Most likely candidate, not a big surprise crude oil prices […]

Time for Trendsetting; Main St. too Bearish?

Last week we saw an extreme Main Street sentiment indicators.  Quite simply put the left-winged controlled media has driven fear into Main Street.  The constant drummed beating of how bad the housing market, subprime loans, and the fall of the US dollar has finally sunk into the minds of Americans.  It is uncanny how the […]

Current Stock Market Conditions

The stock market has been in a bull market since March ‘03, 4+ years without a signficant correction.  Certainly we have come close to getting a more signficant correction than 10% but, have been unable to wipe the table clean.  Markets simply do not go up forever, this market seems like it can not go […]

Personal Responsibility

Here is a piece by Neil Cavuto.
Read it carefully and take away that we are all personally responsible for our own actions.  As a country we’ve over used scapegoats when it was truly our own fault.
Same goes for the stock market.  It isn’t the stock market’s fault that you lose money.  Every trade you put […]

Subprime continues to Haunt Wall Street.

Best to step aside and let the market follow-through before you test the waters.
Market Speculator

Are markets really that efficient?

Market efficiency advocates would tell you yes they are efficent.  They hypothesis states:  market prices always fully reflect all available, relevant information.  Adherents believe that the adjustment to new information is virtually instantaneous and its is virtually impossible to beat the market (definition by Bloomberg).  It is true that 75% of money managers fail to […]

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