Sentiment Overview: Week Of February 29th, 2008 I don’t know how some get the impression that I’m a perma-bull. I’m human, so by nature I’m biased. However, what I try to do always is to allow the tools and indicators to speak for themselves.For example, on Wednesday (February 27th, 2008) I...

Blog Roll ? Inflation Everywhere James Hamilton at Econbrowser takes a look at the inflation situation, and takes issue with Ben Bernanke?s assumptions on inflation (founded on his ?dourness of the outlook for real economic activity?). He notes the sharp upward moves ... Go to Full Article

Reversal Of Fortune The bulls sure had a nice rally ahead of Ben. But, as we've seen before, the bears wasted little time taking back control. For the week, all of the major market averages fell an average of -1.5% producing the fourth straight month of ... Go to Full Article

87 stocks closed at all-time lows Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase. RHD, 7.09, 22049800, 2434810, %805.60. FMT, 1.0001, 14352962, 1622040, %784.87. IAR, 4.82, 13219837, 2708080, %388.16. CDL, 1.09, 6087834, 1730220, %251.85 ... Go to Full Article

29 stocks closed at all-time highs Symbol, Price, Volume, Avg. Volume, % Vol. Increase, High Alpha. GLD, 96.18, 9312204, 9667460, %-3.67. FCN, 63.5, 4280362, 728144, %487.84. SRR, 20.49, 2857400, 591966, %382.69. CPS, 48.4, 2509645, 1386250, %81.03 ... Go to Full Article

Fridays Thoughts 2/29/2008 I will do some posting over the weekend. The wife wants to have a "Date Night" which it has been a while for us. Bottom line is I will not be posting tonight. Any way my day sucked and I lost about $100 overall. Go to Full Article

March Madness Now that February is in the history books, I'm already looking forward to March in a big way. That is especially true this year for these two main reasons:. 1. Monthly Q&A: I finally get the opportunity to interview Jason Goepfert from ... Go to Full Article

NYSE to offer incentive for floor brokers to add liquidity NYSE has just filed a change in our fees that will provide floor brokers with a credit when they add liquidity. Excerpt:. The Exchange proposes to amend its equity transaction fees, for implementation on March 1, 2008. ... Go to...

Get out. Get he hell out of the market and go short. Forget volatility and trading. Just get out. There will be a vicious, swift correction in weeks, not months, as institutional finally lose any faith that the U.S. Central Bank can't deal with the problems we have. The Federal Reserve is...

Angry Investors should be ticked-off, especially those with capital tied up in Ambac and MBIA. Actually all of retail-side should be fit-to-be-tied! Ambac has been down over 90% in the last 8 months and is now up about 90% from its January ... Go to Full Article

Things Aren't so Rosy On Monday I said here on the Tag, the 137.20 level is an important level for the SPY and a rally or decline hinges on the action at that level. Well, yesterday we got a test of the area on the open, and now today again, the market is ... Go to Full Article

Mailbag A number of very good questions were sent in by members this week. Unfortunately, I only had enough time to answer 10 of my favorites. It has been another crazy week. :). Topics I will cover in this week's mailbag include:. Subprime 101 ... Go to Full Article

Today's Trades: TWM, CREE, AKS and DECK I sold 400 shares of TWM at $83.64 (entry at $77.10) for a $2616 gain (+8.4%). I will likely enter again on a pullback or breakout of trading range. I was stopped out of CREE at $31.90 (entry at $33.53) for a $489 loss (-4.8%). ... Go to Full Article

Friday Watchlist Here are the stocks on my primary watchlist for Friday: Shorts: STX, RICK, LVS, ESRX, MBT, AXLN, PSYS, DECK, BLKB, INTU, SPY Longs: FLS, EOG, KWK, AXYS, CMED, XOP, PBR, XME, BRMN, APA, MEE. Go to Full Article

Friday links: major financial instability Strong commodities and a weak dollar are front page news today. (WSJ.com, ibid). Money has been gushing into currency ETFs. (IndexUniverse.com). Fund management, the ?perfect business,? is in the midst of historic changes. ... Go to Full Article