This is a truly historic day. I won't be posting until I get the RO up at around 5pm. Until then, I leave it to you. Tell us what's going on where you're at. Go to Full Article

Stock of the Day - Update Titan Machinery Inc. (TITN) Friday’s Closing Price: TITN - $22.40. Titan Machinery Inc., which runs construction and agriculture equipment store,s raised its full-year guidance for revenue and earnings per ... Go to Full Article

You can no longer sell the following companies short, at least until October 2nd. After that, they can extend the ban another 10 days. There are 799 companies on the list. Think every financial.... if anyone knows where to find the list ... Go to Full Article

Look, they're coming after the wrong people. Obviously, if people are spreading false rumors about a stock in order to send it down, that's wrong. However, it's just plain stupid to ban short selling. How about this? ... Go to Full Article

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ~William Hazlitt. Go to Full Article

Yesterday was a whopper for the bulls, but there may be enough squeeze room for a retest of the week's lows next week. Why? Looking at the weekly spread of indicators, other than the VXN there hasn't been the broad level of confirmation ... Go to Full Article

Another day of link-love, this time from TraderMike, brought a second spike in blog volume. If you are interested in an article I wrote on blog volume and market reversals you can get it here. -eom- Dr. Declan Fallon, Senior Market ... Go to Full Article

A comment by Andrew on Barry’s post about the SEC wanting to ban all short selling sent me to my copy of Michael Panzner’s book Financial Armageddon. Andrew stated that “tonight’s event draws me to the last paragraph of ch.7 in Michael ... Go to Full Article

With the midday turnaround in the S&P 500 futures (top chart), note how we also saw a plunge in gold (second chart), a fall in the euro vs. the US dollar (third chart), and a fall in the price of short-term Treasuries (bottom chart). ... Go to Full Article

I just got wind of the latest absurdity being kicked around by the SEC — they’re allegedly thinking of banning short-selling all togetherr:. Amid the spiraling market crisis and mounting pressure from lawmakers, the Securities and ... Go to Full Article

The following charts are from Jason Goepfert, of SentimenTrader.com, showing his proprietary indicator called the “Panic Button”.This indicator measures stresses in the credit market and is expressed as standard deviations from the norm. So a 2.0 means that the aggregate measures are 2 standard...

This is the kind of day that traders will remember forever. They will either remember the money they made, or think about the money they could have made, or think about the money they lost. The RO made... and it made BIG. ... Go to Full Article

Wow. That was a crazy day. It's almost like we had two separate trading sessions. I've mentioned how I've been running the Stocktickr / Trade Ideas Trading robot, and today was a crazy day for it. It typically takes 4-8 trades a day, ... Go to Full Article

If you haven’t been following gold prices lately, there’s something interesting that may grab your attention and is at least worth a second look. First, gold prices skyrocketed 10% Wednesday and then rose by a similar amount today, ... Go to Full Article

These last few days are some of the wildest I’ve ever seen. Right up there with post 9/11 trading and some of the upside action in the 200 bubble. As Jeff Macke attested to tonight on Fast Money it’s just treacherous out there. ... Go to Full Article