i have given a summary of the most popular reasons. i always find it fascinating how the media comes up with thousands of reasons. Personally I...
i am short-term (2-3 days) bullish and longer-term (10-20 days after that) bearish. This is all psychology of market and fear after many months of...
there are 3 principles of trading that are immutable (I hope that is the correct word:) - a trend will more likely continue than reverse -...
like I posted before, the rallies in this downtrend are better plays now that VIX and put/call ratios are so high. Until those two come down, i am...
I think that lows is unlikely. I am thinking more of $417 to $400 area and then the previous rally continues. These guys are still doing very well...
Having seen a few of these kinds of action before, i think NEW is headed for bankruptcy. Not only is business really bad, but now there are...
excellent comments, but don't forget these things didn't happen overnight! many of these issues have been debated for many months already. I am...
carry trades have just started unwinding last week. This is something that will take months and even maybe years to unwind completely, so expect...
we may drop again Monday (gap down) and even more during the day, but looking at VIX and put/call ratios it seems it is starting to get into...
crude has been unable to move fast beyond this trendline I posted Feb 13, 2007. We are still hanging aorund this area and my opinion is we are...
i am a bear, but i think in short-term we are well oversold and a squeeze is coming before the next plunge. I am positioning to enter short-term...
my opinion is some bounce is gonna come, but every bounce from now on will be sold unless crude oil starts heading to $70. If crude starts going...
Definitely. MS MER GS etc some of the biggest broker/dealers have rolled many products from sub-prime to prime and sliced and diced them into many...
looks like GOOG is determined to close the gap at 430. But weekly trend is still up. Of course if weekly trend goes it will be pretty ominous...
when you talk about hammers, does that include the "opposite" i.e. shooting stars? I also commented extensively on hanging men candlesticks for...
by far reuters is better as most other vendors get their news from reuters. i use both reuters and bloomberg, but if i had to choose one I would...
best to play on both sides. I use volatility indexes and also put/cal ratios to a smaller extent to signal my long and short entries. Yesterday...
Many hedge funds are going to feel a great deal of pain especially those involved in the "carry trade" with Japanese yen against other currencies....
there might be a rally but it will probably be shorts getting squeezed. After that I doubt a serious rally will come. Housing is starting to be a...
China came back nicely, not all the way, but enough to show it was all panic profit taking. 3+% today in China. So we may bounce 1-2% here in US...
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