Substantive Additional Action Bernanke hands the market another carrot along with enough trash talk about the economy to keep you wondering why he hasn't already cut rates. The market's response, at least so far, has been tepid at best. (Where's the love? ... Go to Full Article

Merry X'mas & Happy New Year! The X'mas rally that we've all been waiting for finally arrived during the last few trading sessions. I wish all of you a Merry X'mas & a great new trading year in 2008, bagging loads of cash like this Santa! ... Go to Full Article

Big Banks Results This Week Will Determine The Swing The markets are now sitting at the edge and its a make or break week. The S&P 500 is sandwiched between the 200 MA and 20MA. The 20MA acts as a support and if the index breaks the prior swing low (1460), then we'll see more gloomy days ... ...

Random Musing On Capital Injection... Do you think the credit crisis that has rocked the financial sector these few months has finally seen some light? UBS AG (NYSE: UBS) writes down another $10B, BUT receives $11.5B injection from outside investors, of which my government ... Go to...

Watchlist for January 15, 2008 The S&P is set to give back all of yesterday?s gain on today?s open thanks to bad news from just about everywhere. So I guess I?ll start looking at the bottom of the recent trading range to see if we breakdown? On Today?s Calendar: ... Go to Full Article

January Barometer Good morning & happy new year! We're going to be very busy over the next few days as a number of economic reports are released. Today we have the December ISM, November constructing spending and the FOMC minutes from the last Fed ... Go to Full Article

January 15, 2008 Stock Market Recap The bearish volume action continued today with another higher volume selloff. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 were both down about 2.5% and are closing in on their August intraday lows. The Dow, following the Russell 2000?s lead, ... Go to Full Article

Monday Trade Review 12/31/2007 Not much to say. Volume was dead and hard to trust the moves. - The numbers: Stocks: Gross +2 net 0 shares 200 Stock Futures: gross +25 net +20 contracts 2 Other Futures: none Forex: none. Go to Full Article

FBI Investigates 14 In Mortgage Industry This news isn't all that surprising . After all bubbles create greed and greed creates criminals , so it's just a matter of time before the prison parade begins. Deja vu. The FBI isn't disclosing which companies are under investigation ... Go to...

Bear Market Mode Good morning. Prepare yourself - this is going to be a difficult day. Markets in Asia fell sharply, with Hong Kong plunging -5.4% and Japan dropping -3.4%. Indexes in South Korea, Australia, Taiwan and Shanghai all finished more than ... Go to Full Article

The Only Rule Although it may not seem like it, this too shall pass. Eventually. Until then, stay frosty and refuse to let small losses grow into larger ones. That's the only rule you need in this market and it will save you a fortune. Go to Full Article

Thursday Trade Review 1/3/2008 Not in a good humor. Piss ass day of weird ticks and patterns I just could not get myself to take the trade. My mind is f-ed up enough. I just felt like traders I know from a bunch of corners where picking on my style and lacks of balls ... Go to Full Article

Wednesday Trade Results 1/2/2008 I did not make a lot of money today but if I had reacted to my trades like I had done before I would have had a large loss. I was a good boy and sat on my hands for 2 1/2 of my trades today. I sat there with my stop loss orders in an ... Go to Full Article

2008 Goals 1/1/2008 Bottom line - trade more, trade bigger, risk more. I need to grow bigger balls - period. - I believe I know what I am doing but my results are not showing it. I cut off way too many trade too soon with out allowing the trade to work. ... Go to Full Article

Currency Markets 1/1/2008 I would just wait until the year end dust settles. Some crazy moves during the last 10 days especially in the Euro and Loonie. One of my goals this year is to start to trade this system on just the Euro using the minimal trade size and ... Go to Full Article