Daily Options Wrap - September 8th 2008 The market had a very robust day to the upside on Monday and there was reason to believe that there...
REVIEW: 8 September 2008 A runaway USD dominated the trends in the forex today including a major retracement across the commodity currencies...
The week ends with a strong trend in the market towards weak commodities and a stronger USD. These kinds of breakout trends are great profit...
REVIEW: 4 September 2008 The ADP report and retail sales in the US rocked the equity markets to the tune of -74 points on the S&P 500. The move...
Today's release from ADP showed a net decrease of 33K jobs from the US economy. While I have greater confidence that the ADP sample is more...
Now that our oil troubles are over (hint: I am being ironic) we can start looking at stocks that are likely to see the most immediate bottom line...
REVIEW: 3 September 2008 The Bank of Canada left rates alone at 3%, which was not necessarily a surprise but the statement was seen as...
by John Jagerson It is the last week of summer and the market seems to be on vacation in many ways. However, there were some interesting...
In the prior two segments we looked at the yield curve from a fundamental perspective. This is very useful and provides context for what drives...
In the last section I talked about what a normal yield curve is and what it usually looks like. However, the yield curve will change over time and...
Can you grade one level of support relative to another? Is a pause at a specific price point more important today than the same support level a...
The yield curve is something that analysts and professionals will track but is rarely talked about by smaller individual traders. This is a very...
The Average True Range (ATR) indicator is, at its core, a volatility indicator. It tells you the average price swings, or trading "range," of the...
The Parabolic SAR is one of the most fascinating tools available for setting stop losses. The Parabolic SAR is plotted as a series of dots either...
This was a subject I addressed a few months ago following several questions about how crosses and their pip values work. I have been getting those...
dtrader - Thanks for the comment and compliment. I appreciate your question very much actually. If you are counting up periods versus down...
This is an introductory article and video around the concept of using a fibonacci retracement to time entries into a stock. You can check it...
Small-cap stocks are the place to be right now as the stock market passes the one-year anniversary of the sub-prime meltdown and the beginning of...
One of the comments on my last post made me think about confirming candlesticks. There are a number of ways to do that and I think it helps when...
Time studies are one of my favorite forms of fibonacci analysis. It can be really wild how closely they coincide with periods of market...
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