"Howdy folks, buy stocks!" Pope Benedict XXIVCXXIII, April 2008. Go to Full Article

Last night, some poor soul searched for "up the ass with a candlestick" in Google. Their first option was this post... something tells me they left my blog disappointed. Go to Full Article

I've ranted here now and again about how public companies should join the move to report their financial disclosures in an interactive data format (known as XBRL, or eXtensible Business Reporting Language) to make the information easier ... Go to Full Article

Thank you for sending in your questions and feedback this past week. Both are very helpful to me so that I make sure to cover things most important to you and other members. In this week's mailbag, I will discuss the following: ... Go to Full Article

Good morning. Premarket futures indicate a very strong start to this options expiration day. According to the Stock Trader's Almanac, April's expiration day has been up 9 and of the last 11 years. At this point, there's little reason to ... Go to Full Article

I just looked at the NASDAQ breadth indicators and they look pretty good, for the most part they are moving in the right direction, but they are not as strong as the readings from the 16th of April, which causes me some concern. ... Go to Full Article

Today is options expiration. Think of all the people being screwed by the big moves right now caused mainly by GOOG. This is why I never play this junk - only inter day stuff. - Also if we hold on to these gains, this will be the first ... Go to Full Article

This is going to be my running list of Brett Steenbarger writings on how he views the markets, or how he uses empirical data to interpret market behavior. 1. Brett uses count of stocks making a 65 day high or low to help gauge or ... Go to Full Article

Hi Brian, Historically I have struggled with these big gaps overnight and then a continuation move for the rest of the day without any retracement... I have gotten to where I, at least, don't fight it all day... but still not ... Go to Full Article

In my recent post, I suggested that a key to understanding the character of a market day was tracking the volume patterns within that day. Specifically, if volume is running significantly above normal, it means that institutional . ... Go to Full Article

is the WALLSTRIP stock today. I can see no reason to buy the stock. Go to Full Article

Good News for my readers !!! Really exciting what is happening at FinGad.com. They are running a contest where the person who can pick the best stocks and get maximum return on the virtual money balance will win one thousand bucks, ... Go to Full Article

A little while back I posted about the increasing number of one-sided days in the stock market and how those are affecting traders. Yesterday I noticed another kind of one-sidedness: seven of the last nine trading sessions in the S&P ... Go to Full Article

The latest KIVA loans come courtesy of first month subscription payments from M. Siegel and J. Mercer. If you are interested in contributing please subscribe to my newsletter:. Allow 24 hours to set up site access and add your name to ... Go to Full Article

After reading Tim’s post about reaching 1 million page views in the first 6 months, I decided to count up the page views on uglychart.com. In the first 6 months that I started keeping track on ... Go to Full...